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Mental health is equally important to physical health. Mind pollution is one issue that we should deal with. Since we were born, our mind has been filled with pollution from schooling, family and media. Schooling, family and media feed us with things like values, intentions, conditions, restrictions... We try very hard to adjust ourselves to the requirements from the school, family and society, to be nice, to be good, to be loyal... And we are not real us anymore. Many emotions have been suppressed. We are the mixture of the requirements. Mind pollution is amount of negative thought process absorbed at each moment without noticing, generating evil effects on our behaviors and emotions, and draining of our creative energy. Each thought thinks itself as a whole and the thought takes up our mind as a whole, too. Moment by moment, a new thought comes up and the old thoughts stay in the subconsciousness. We forget they even existed, however, these old thoughts eventually come up and affect us when all things are ready in life. This non creative energy, which is dangerously hazardous, leaves no space for vital creativity for us. For years, the mind has carried on a haphazard reign over our experiences and emotions, continually replacing happiness with stress, satisfaction with anxiety. Pollution is nourished and shaped in the mind. Absorption of this negativity creates doubts, anxiety, unwanted aggression... If we suppress our emotions, it will be an obstacle to the mind. Our mind leaves no space and cannot receive any messages from the unknown. When we are overwhelmed with conflicts from experiences and expectations, we tend to get panicking, anxious, even fearful. Our logical brain senses chaos. As a result, our logical brain tries to find solutions to ease our mind, because this is the only way to make ourselves feel better. In fact, in attempting overcoming this chaos, our logical brain might be in a state of more chaos. Our world is in the middle of the chaos; it is because our world is full of so-called "solutions". Our logical brain thinks these solutions can solve all our problems, but actually these solutions don't solve any of our problems and they actually cause more chaos. Therefore, it is necessary to clean up our mind pollution for we need to free some space to take positive emotions and to receive messages.
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