What is the mental diet? Is it actually effective and has this been proven?

Luke Newman

            Someone did their PGP Phase I presentation on the mental diet and it had me very interested.  Emmett Fox suggests that the mental diet is the food with which you furnish your mind.  How we think helps to choose the conditions of our lives and how we live our lives.  This makes me think of the 90-10 Rule, that life is 10% what happens and 90% how we deal with it.  The mental diet is a process by which we train ourselves to choose the subject and frame of reference on how we think.  Fox suggests that if I take a week of my life to develop a new habit of thought, it will be the most significant week of my life and change it for the better.   Fox especially says that it is not the bad thoughts that are the true cause of frustration and stress, it is how much we dwell on the negative thoughts.  I was unable to find any true scientific statistics or studies on the effects of a mental diet.  However, just by reading the customer reviews of his book on Amazon, it is clear that a lot of people have benefitted from doing the mental diet.  There is no risk in going on the diet, so it’s definitely worth a shot.  Maybe it could change my life for the better.

Fox, Emmet. "The Seven Day Mental Diet." The Seven Day Mental Diet. Alchemy Lab,

n.d. Web. 23 Sept. 2013.