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.
