Are you too fat, too skinny, not getting enough rest, depressed or any one of the many things society tells you? The truth is your mind controls your body, but who controls your mind? In today's society, we have been subject to numerous advertising campaigns to keep us from using our common sense.

It seems that common sense is not common any more. Americans are the fattest people in the world, or so they tell us. I wonder why? Maybe it is because we are subject to the continuous advertising.

What They Would Like Us to Believe

We are told to go to fast food restaurants, or to go to any number of restaurants to indulge ourselves. This gives us more time to watch TV and be subject to more advertising. Since we are wising up to this advertising campaign, the advertisers have started another campaign of how to regain our old selves thru pills, machines, surgery and many other campaigns.

We now have numerous ways for us to get the rest we need, pills massages, high tech beds and the list go on. Once again, we fall victim to the best marketers in the world. Through advertising, we get fat, skinny, and sleep better or that is what they would like us to believe. When the advertising gets too confusing as what we should do, then advertisers tell us how to regain our sanity. Pills are the answer. What we can't control emotionally is handled through pills.

Doctors Want to Help but Can They?

When you consult your doctor, he is pressured by financial obligations and pharmaceutical companies to diagnose your problems with a drug solution. In fact, they are pressured by society in general to use drugs to treat everything.

What is the Answer?

When you decide that all this medicine is not the answer, the question becomes, what is the answer? Well that is just using your common sense. How do we regain our common sense? That is when we turn to self-help. But beware all self help isn't self-help. Remember the old adage, if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably isn't. It certainly rings true here.

When choosing a self-help guide, book, or program, stop and think is this real or is it just more hype. If someone tells you can lose 40 pounds in forty days, it might be so, but at what expense. You need to think, did I gain that 40 pounds in forty days. Probably not and therefore, losing it in 40 days doesn't make sense either.

In the mass advertising campaign, there is some common sense. If you burn more calories than you eat, you will probably lose weight. The reality is portion control, exercise, enjoying, and relating to nature and our fellow man will help us restore reality. Self-help means helping yourself not the advertisers.