Negative Mass Media and Exhortation for Positive Thinking

　　A low-fat diet and moderate aerobics exercises are essential to keep good physical health. Aerobics exercises are, in particular, necessary to enhance the cardiopulmonary function. On the other hand, I think that you want to take proper care of your mental health, too.
　　Lots of pessimistic news like about disasters, disputes, terrorism and economic unrest from TVs deplete our energy and make us blue. There actually exist various unhappiness and sufferings in the world. However, it's very important to recall that all the things in the world aren't desperate, while recognizing that this world is full of violence and injustice.
　　You get to watch what you feed yourself as far as the media goes and that kind of thing. In today's society, there is a lot of negativity that comes from the news if you watch the regular news. A part of it is, I do believe, what they do for ratings to get people to watch and those kind of things. However, you have to take it with a grain of salt. You have to take a look at it and say "Not everything is like that." Not everything is doom and gloom and fear-based. There are positive things out there in the world. It's important to find and do those positive things.
　　Even if it is a simple thing like helping your neighbor to pick up trash along the street or whatever it might be, doing positive things for other people helps you and that makes you feel good.
　　You, including me of course, need to do mental exercises too, paying attention to positive aspects of beautiful scenery or buoyant occurrences around us. It's not a big deal. You have only to volunteer for something for your neighbors like cleaning streets as I wrote above. Such simple things have the power to change us positively. You will be impressed that life is not that bad. How about joining the volunteer activities around your neighborhood?

(Vocabulary)
exhort (フォーマル) (演説などで) …に呼びかける, 勧告する [同意] urge
exhortation  勧告, 呼びかけ
negativity  悪い面のみを見る態度
take it with a grain of salt.　一粒の塩と一緒に食べろ
つまり「味のないものはそのままでは食べられない」転じて「眉唾（味のないもの）はそのまま受け入れられない」になります。話がうますぎる場合などに「話し半分に聞く」「疑ってかかる」「眉に唾を付けて聴く」というように使います。
doom  運命　悲運
gloom   暗やみ, 暗がり; 憂鬱(ゆううつ), 絶望感
doom and gloom　 陰々滅滅な;  暗い見通し

Comments

[Shiroi Tora]

Yes...doing something positive for others gives greatly positive returns for the giver. As for positive media...I had seen this site...Daily Good - News That Inspires. It gives positive examples of people, from the famous to the ordinary: http://www.dailygood.org/search.php?cid=2

There is a very interesting article about how many Doctors chose to die on the side bar.