Vishen LakhianiFounder of Mindvalley | NYT Bestselling Author | Transforming Lives Globally

What's your brain marinating in? #Shorts

4 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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A short spoken reflection on identity, authenticity, and mental health emphasizing personal boundaries and selective exposure to influences. The speaker argues religion is personal, culture/expectations do not define the self, and describes actively curating people, media, and music to protect mental well-being—using the metaphor "the brain is like tofu" that takes on whatever it is marinated in.

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When people look at me, I'm emirati, she has 68 tattoos. She's not covered. Where is the religion? Where is the culture? Where is that? First of all, religion is between me and God. God doesn't have any secretaries or advocates on earth for them to judge me or tell me whether I'm going to hell or heaven. I love that line. That's it. Second thing is culture, society, expectation. I am a soul with a human experience. This is a dress. If you don't like my dress, that's your problem, not mine. I am who I am. I only have people in my life that love me for who I am and for my authenticity. I. My priority right now is mental health. Friends. I went on, like, a diet. I cut out everyone. Bad. I went on a diet with, like, the stuff I watch, the stuff I read, the stuff I listen to. Even if there are songs that I feel like that are not good for me, I don't listen to them. So it's like my mind is my priority. This tofu is not going to be marinated in shit anymore. I love that. So remember this. The brain is like tofu. Whatever you marinated in, it becomes. So make sure you're marinating it in something that's tasty.