YOU MAY NEVER BECOME MENTALLY FIT

YOU INSPECT WHAT ENTERS YOUR BODY. BUT DO YOU
INSPECT WHAT ENTERS YOUR MIND? One night, Dr. Abhishek
Gilara had a simple dream. He was about to eat a fruit. He sliced it
open—and found insects inside. Naturally, he refused to eat it. But after
waking, a much bigger question remained: If we immediately reject food
that could make our body ill, why do we sometimes continue feeding our
mind with anger, greed, envy, dishonesty, ego, comparison, impatience,
unhealthy habits and endless mental junk? That question became this
book.
YOU MAY NEVER BECOME MENTALLY FIT—IF YOU KEEP EATING INFECTED THOUGHTS
explores the idea of mental digestion—how the thoughts, habits, people, content, pleasures and
behaviours we repeatedly consume can gradually influence the person we become. Through powerful
everyday analogies—the infected fruit, the doctor we refuse to tell our symptoms to, the dirty rooms we
never clean, the attractive packaging hiding spoiled food, and the people before whom we no longer need
to look good—Dr. Gilara asks the reader to attempt something far more difficult than impressing the
world: To see oneself honestly. This is not a book about becoming mentally perfect. It is about becoming
mentally aware. It is about learning to say: I may be wrong. I need to change this. I don’t know. I need
help. Please show me what I cannot see myself. It is also a reminder that some of the most valuable
people in our lives are not those who constantly tell us how good we are, but those who love us enough
to recognise when our thinking is moving in an unhealthy direction—and have the courage to help us see
it. Because you cannot clean what you refuse to see. You cannot change what you keep defending. And
you cannot become mentally fit merely by looking mentally fit. One day, have the courage to slice open
your own mind. What you discover may become the beginning of one of the most important transformations
of your life.