by Tom Fair
\nWe live today in a social environment in which a greater and greater percentage of the population has become concerned with their physical well-being. Bodily health and physical improvement activities have become big business. Nutritional supplements and organic foods, once thought of as fads endorsed by a small minority, are now hot items.
\nWe live also in a data-rich society; and data can be considered Food for the Mind. People who wish to become successful in one field or another are on the outlook for the most \u201cnutritious\u201d data \u2013 the information that is true to the point of greatest and most efficient workability.
\nPartial or incorrect data, then, can be defined as poor \u201cMental Nutrition.\u201d Every week, people attend workshops and seminars in search of data that will enrich their thought processes and operating methods and thus enrich their lives.
\nWe come now to the subject of the Spirit. Man can be considered as an entity consisting of three major elements \u2013 body, mind and spirit (or soul). If there is food for the body, and food for the mind, then there must also be food for the soul. The subject of \u201cSoul Food\u201d can be called the subject of Spiritual Nutrition.
\nWell, then \u2013 exactly what would be of high nutritional value for the Spirit? It would be those things that made the Spirit lighter, brighter, more confident and more stable \u2013 those things that made him more spirit-like and free from the constraints of the material world.
\nSuch things can be classified under the heading of GOOD NEWS. By contrast, bad news is troubling and demoralizing to the Spirit; GOOD NEWS is invigorating.
\nWe tell a person that war has been declared, and taxes must go higher in order to pay for that war, that young men and women will probably die on the battlefield. This is bad news \/ poor spiritual nutrition.
\nOn the other hand, we can tell him that the war is over, Johnny\u2019s coming home, salaries are up and taxes are down \u2013 that\u2019s GOOD NEWS and of high nutritional value for the Spirit.
\nYou take a look around now in your environment, and see if you can find some people and organizations who are making a killing (pun intended) by peddling enormous quantities of the worst kind of bad news to be found anywhere on earth. And consider how that news makes you feel spiritually.
\nAlthough GOOD NEWS is the basis of a continuing happy life, we find so many millions among us totally committed to gorging on their daily doses of spiritual junk food \u2013 the news of catastrophes, crime, warfare and the alarming gossip about public figures that saturates the media each and every hour of each and every day.
\nIs it any wonder that a people so spiritually impoverished find themselves in an economic debacle that defies solution?
\nBut wait\u2026 here\u2019s the upside in all of this: you and I are born with the ability to become Spiritual Nutritionists \u2013 we can cook up our own GOOD NEWS!!!
\nThis is what makes Scouting, for example, such a wonderful activity; for every time we exercise such inborn qualities as kindness, helpfulness, loyalty, courage and honesty, we are creating a new reality on earth that amounts to GOOD NEWS.
\nMom\u2019s home cooking: GOOD NEWS!! A new bridge is designed and built: GOOD NEWS!! A marriage lasts fifty years: GOOD NEWS!! Boy saves puppy from drowning: GOOD NEWS!!
\nPeople everywhere feel better, and are more observant and active when they hear Good News; thus, Spiritual Nutrition contributes also to the health of Mind and Body.
\nAnd yet \u2013 how many people go out of their way to 1) Find GOOD NEWS; and 2) Pass it on?
\nNot enough, I\u2019m sorry to say.
\nWorld, it\u2019s time to wake up and start thinking about your Spiritual Nutrition. It\u2019s time for a change of diet.
\nCopyright\u00a9 2009 by Tom Fair. All Rights Reserved.
\nNote: an article with this title was originally written around 1990, and has since disappeared into certain banker\u2019s boxes among thousands of other unidentified papers.
\nAs I wished to re-issue the message, I found it simpler to re-write the entire piece. At some point in the future, the original issue will no doubt be recovered, at which time it will be interesting to compare the two.
\nYou can email Tom at dynamic_tomfair at hotmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
by Tom Fair We live today in a social environment in which a greater and greater percentage of the population has become concerned with their physical well-being. Bodily health and physical improvement activities have become big business. Nutritional supplements and organic foods, once thought of as fads endorsed by a small minority, are now hot … <\/p>\n