I think we all have this wrong think going on in our lives. We usually have enough information to make the right choices but for some unknown reason we do not. I believe George Orwell first used Wrong Think in his book 1984 which was a look into one possible future for mankind from the invasion of technology. It is probable however that the term was used before it made it into the book.

So how do we wrong think? The most obvious examples are in the state of our health and how we approach the things we do. I know my habits started becoming worse when I became old enough to drive, and fast food was still a novelty. I started walking and riding a bicycle less, driving and eating greasy foods more often.

Over the years we become accustom to adding to our lives and not taking away. Our life style gets better, our food gets more expensive, and in general we have more extra money to spend on ourselves, so we do. We buy better clothes, place to live, and start eating more things that we really should not be eating so much of. That was one of the things I found myself doing, something to eat that once was a treat was now a semi regular activity, and my weight was showing this to be true.

When you are young, your body is pretty resilient, and it can deal with the stresses we place on it from poor health choices. After the kids leave home, our body still does a good job of recovering from years of abuse, but we have to help it a little. I decided it was time to help mine but the impediments to that were and are quite a challenge. I think that is where wrong think gets a foothold in us.

We look around for options to make ourselves better, either in health or in how we feel about ourselves. For some people it is spa’s and lotions, for others it is the gym, and for others…they turn to denial. For a few it is a total remake of parts of our lives. What makes it so hard is we forget over the years the basic things that we need to stay healthy. We gave up on exercise generally as soon as we did not have to exercise. The meals we are eating is not even close to what they should be more often than not. Eventually we start to look around to fix ourselves.

We hear or read about a few things, probably another food, some vitamin or supplement that someone we know takes and has good success with. We find that they are not giving us the expected results so we keep looking. Wrong think is rampant at this point. We go to salad bars as they seem to be healthier, but once the counting is done, all we have done is add salad to the excess food we are eating. Maybe we try diet drinks, or light meals as a substitute for one of our regular meals. By this time we are skipping breakfast because we know we have to eat less.

If we are lucky we get to the point where we have to admit that everything we are doing is wrong. Once we realize everything we are doing is wrong, we start to look around for what we really should be eating, and doing to keep ourselves healthy. We start replacing one food for another, or dropping certain foods or types of foods completely.

Finally we start to see the results we know we should be experiencing. We have broken the cycle of wrong think, and now are practicing Right Think, and now are really learning about how to make ourselves healthier once again. Hopefully we stay on the path. We wrong think many things in our lives from the time we get up to the time we go to bed. Wrong think is so easy because it is how most of the people we know think, and they can’t all be wrong can they?