Ilchi Lee on Information as food for your brain
In his book, Brain Wave Vibration, Ilchi Lee speaks about information as food…
Information used to be held by an elite few, the scholars and rulers of a time gone by. But now there is an excess of information available for everyone. Every piece of information is like a calorie. The brain, which has a natural love for acquiring information, slurps up the information wherever it can be found. Soon the brain is overwhelmed by the vast amount of information entering it. Information in its own right is not bad, no more than food is bad. But too much is too much, especially when the quality is not good.
Like fast food, you can get a lot of information cheap these days. Your mind, like your body, gets heavy and clogged up quickly if you don’t make good choices about what you feed it. Brain Wave Vibration is meant to help you stop processing information, almost like a temporary information fast, so that you can begin to take control of your information consumption. To determine your information nutrition level, ask yourself three basic questions.
Ilchi Lee has taught me a lot about the relationship between the brain and information. To me, it is a very impressive to say “Think of information as food for your brain.” Like fast food, you can eat lots of information cheap everyday. That does not mean that the information has high quality. We should care about the information we take, as much as we do about the food we eat.
