###### 🔑 Everything we come into contact with leaves something behind Once something enters our mind, it’s quite difficult to get it out. Everything we come into contact with leaves a mark, an echo, or an aftertaste, and everything we do changes our brain. This can be difficult to notice because those changes and leftovers can be mundane, subtle, or incremental, or just reinforce something that was already there. It runs parallel to our relationship to food in that we also ingest sights, sounds, scents, and sensations and they often need to be digested and integrated. In the same way that eating too much can harm us, or that there are addictive foods and poisons, there are equivalents for our other senses. Everything we’re exposed to is a kind of [[🛠 Affirmations|🛠 Affirmation]], a teaching, a practice, a potential [[💡 Habits & Routines|habit]], a chance for confirmation bias to confirm our worst fears or highest hopes, a vote in favor of a particular perception of the world — including our [[💡 Burdens 🪨|Burdens]]. - [[💡 Silence]] - [[🔑 Our mind is directly influenced by our surroundings]] - [[💡 Neuroplasticity]] [^1]: