Mental Spammers.
They are the ubiquitous victims.
They keep on bombarding us with messages that we don't need and don't want to hear.
The only thing that keeps them going is the ever-unfolding dramas that fill their lives.
In their book, everything is black, everything is negative.
It's never their fault.
The world is dedicated to ruining their life.
Not only are they negative, they are also contagious.
Misery loves company so they are constantly recruiting.
Nothing would please them more than to have us join their army; the United Victims of the World.
Just as we would approach a contagious patient with precautions and care, we need to treat these people with due circumspection.
At best, they will rain on our parade and in the worst scenario; they'll win us over to their side.
The human mind is like the hard disk of a computer.
It will register whatever we allow to filter in.
No one in his right mind would visit Internet sites known to be contaminated.
The same precaution and care should be used for our mind.
It has been estimated that it takes at least seventeen positive messages to counteract the effect of a single negative one.
That is something that should be considered seriously.
No one is immune from negative and demoralizing influences.
To perform at the highest level, we must be in the greatest possible state of mind.
Something that cannot co-exists with a mind laden with negative and gloom and doom influences.
To be all that we can be, mental hygiene has to be kept at the highest possible level.
Some years ago, an experiment was conducted in the Bronx, New York.
Some good and honest police officers were placed in a precinct contaminated with bad cops.
In less than six months, all those stellar police officers were just as corrupt as the group that they were placed with.
We are much more susceptible to be influenced negatively then we would like to believe.
That is because it is done at the level of the unconscious.
The cancerous negative metastases are implanted in our brain without our being aware of it.
That is why they are so insidious and so damaging.
It is a fundamental axiom that we become like those that we associate with.
No friend is better than bad friends, and unless we are stuck in a jail somewhere, it's always possible to find worthwhile people to associate with.
An excellent way of doing this is by volunteering for community services.
That is usually where the best of the best can be found.
Mental Spammers and drama queens are everywhere.
We cannot escape them totally so, good mental hygiene is absolutely necessary.
As much time should be spent every day reading or viewing uplifting material as we do on body hygiene.
That is where the famous Latin quotation, "Mens sana in corpore sano.
" (A healthy mind in a healthy body) gets all its significance.
High performance requires high-level maintenance.
Just as no one would travel a bumpy gravel road with a high performance Ferrari, no one serious about personal achievement should take the chance of being negatively influenced by the wrong crowd.
To perform optimally we need to be in the best possible frame of mind.
That can only be done by associating with people who deserve our admiration and respect.
A small price to pay to be all that we can be.