Detox Your Thoughts

The liver is a fascinating organ. It plays an essential role in our digestion process, regulating the levels of amino acids (protein building blocks) and glucose in the blood. More importantly, the liver is responsible for removing waste products, toxins, and bacteria from the bloodstream. In other words, our livers are constantly working to detoxify our bodies, and that's how we stay physically healthy - but there's more to a human than just a body.

Growing up, many of us weren't always lucky enough to be taught about the importance of mental health - even nowadays, the world's majority is reluctant to take mental health seriously. The problem here is, the same way your body ingests toxins every day, so makes your mind. The mind, however, doesn't have an organ to monitor and remove toxins.

As a result, most of us have become infected, metaphorically speaking, with insecurities, self-hate, low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, toxic masculinity and femininity, and many more psychological ailments. Of course, the root cause behind each of these is quite complex, but ultimately, it goes back to one thing - the world.

Think of yourself as a child - long before anyone told you who you should be, what you should do, and how to think. You were probably happier, kinder, freer, more relaxed, and more in touch with everything around you. More importantly, you didn't feel wrong to exist in your own unique way. So, what happened? Social constructs, people's perceptions of right/wrong and good/bad, fears, violence, bullying, emotional abuse, and many more factors got in the way.

Now, don't get it wrong, the world is not inherently bad, and people don't necessarily suck, but if you haven't learned how to regulate your emotions and deal with bad experiences, you are probably struggling with life generally. To live, you must open up to the world. That means opening up to all parts, the beautiful and the horrendous.