Jul. 24, 2008
Ilchi Lee suggests you ask yourself this question to determine the information nutrition level.
Question 2: Does this information help me grow and improve my life?
It is important to note that not all empowering information is beneficial. Empowering information may help your true self, or it may simply build your ego, which is the product of your false self. For example, I could say to you, “You are smarter and better than everyone else in the world.” That is indeed empowering information. However, you can see how it is not information that will help you grow and improve yourself. You must be wary of the ego as you choose information because it can mislead you easily, even causing you to be offended by empowering information that will help you achieve your highest self. Disregard information that which contributes to your true self from that which appeals to you only on the egoistic level.
Another tendency of the ego is to collect information just for the sake of stockpiling an impressive array of knowledge. Knowledge can be a helpful tool, but hording it only clouds the mind and distracts you from your highest intentions.
It is very impressive to me that Ilchi Lee likens information to food of the brain. It can be also possible that information is compared to breath of the brain. If we always have positive thoughts and emotions in our brain, how different our lives will be!
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