Recipe for the heart

I suggest replacing an unhealthy mental food with a healthy one on your daily mental diet. 

The Recipe that I’m recommending is called thanksgiving. 

This mental Recipe acts as a cleansing agent just like a leafy green vegetable does to your heart’s arteries. 

To give thanksgiving, you have to fill your eyes with what is going right in your life, and then verbally expressing gratitude to God for it with your mouth, which fills your ears. 

In this way, you are training your subconscious mind to look for things that you actually want to happen and recognize them quickly.

Did you know that your mind processes information similar to your heart delivering nourishment through your blood to your cells? 

Your eyes and ears continually consume ideas just like your mouth consumes food and water. 

After those bits of information are digested by your mind into usable concepts, they are personalized into thoughts, emotions, attitudes, and then finally behavior.


One of the greatest benefits of being thankful is what thanksgiving is replacing. 

Did you know that it’s impossible to think two different thoughts at once? 

It’s impossible to be full of both thankfulness and bitterness. 

Thankfulness clears out a host of thought blockages such as ingratitude, resentment, doubt, and selfishness. 

You’re always looking for something good to happen. 

When it runs by, you’ll see it in time to take your shot instead of being preoccupied with something else. 

Remember, Thanksgiving has its day in November, but remember to give it your every moment.


We should always ask ourselves before we look, listen, or think upon something what will be the impact of depositing those things deep into our subconscious minds? 

If what I am watching, listening, or thinking upon could eventually be exhibited in my behavior, what will be the benefits or consequences of me actually doing that behavior? 

If that is so, how does that influence what I look, listen, or think?


I’ve recently read a diet book explaining how certain foods have a tendency to cause plaque in the heart’s arteries. 

These blockages could eventually require a by-pass surgery, or they could cause the heart to fail. 

The book explained how switching what you eat to healthy foods such as leafy green vegetables could cleanse your heart before surgery is required. 

In other words, we should be selective in what we put into our mouths based upon the damage that it could eventually cause to our hearts.

Blockages can occur in our subconscious minds just like they can in our physical hearts. 

One unhealthy mental food is bitterness. For example when I meet a person that harbors resentment, their thoughts tend to gravitate towards what someone else has done or might have done to them. 

Their minds are being drawn away from thoughts that could actually improve their lives, which is focusing on productive behavior!

M. H. Dennis