An Open Letter to the Surgeon General: Total Physical Health Will Flow Only From Total Emotional Health

    WASHINGTON, DC, April 24, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Your job is to persuade Americans to live healthy and avoid an unhealthy lifestyle. Surgeon generals come and go; repeating the same old health issues of avoiding smoking and drug addictions by warning about the ills of drug addictions and smoking. As usual you too are not bringing anything new to the table. You continue to talk about just obvious health issues. Health issues arise leading to all this mess in society because our leaders including your office avoid highlighting some major emotional health issues.

The greatest task before you is to wake up America, including our leaders, to the biggest unhealthy behavior; we as parents, teachers and society commit by bringing up our children on the unhealthy belief of each one being the best. This creates a phony overconfident self image that results in emotionally challenged brains and minds ending up with an emotionally challenged society.

It is a lie we are ingraining into the unconscious brains of our children as if they are the best; without providing them the healthy upbringing to become the best. You have an opportunity to use your bully pulpit to stop raising imaginary kings and queens without a kingdom. You can provide the guidelines to create an emotionally healthy America.

Since time immemorial man has dreamed of creating wise societies. Thanks to the latest advances in the mind sciences it is now clear that wisdom is an emotion that springs from an emotionally healthy brain. For the first time in history your biggest task of enabling emotionally
healthy brains has become very crystal clear and it should be your top priority.

Just as we post warnings on cigarette boxes you should post warning on maternity walls of the dangers of creating trophy self images; perhaps even on diapers and milk bottles etc.

It is well established that man becomes wise by old age. What happens is that the emotional baggage; in the majority of cases the trophy self image of being the best, creates an emotionally challenged over confidence that blocks wisdom. Over decades reality grinds out the emotional baggage powered trophy self image, enabling the brain to become wise. Why wait for decades of life experiences to grind out the emotional baggage; you can recommend brain therapy and wisdom seminars. We already have therapies that make the subnormal into normal; we must use the same to make the trophy self image disappear. More important why let the trophy self image take root in the first place? You must recommend emotionally healthy upbringing/parenting.

There are many paths to a wise/emotionally-healthy America. We raise our daughters humble and our sons macho. The DNA of wisdom/emotional-intelligence/emotional-health is selflessness that generates humbleness. Thus humbleness is wisdom. So we raise our daughters wiser/emotionally healthier. Again say you have two sons; one is humble and the other macho; which one is more likely to commit emotionally challenged behavior? By just raising our sons humble we will be changing America into a much more emotionally-healthier/wiser society. In other words if you want to bring down crime, drug addictions, class divide, poverty, unhappiness, suicide, sleeplessness, restlessness, student failures etc.; then use your bully pulpit to ensure raising both sons and daughters humble; even raise them both humbler. Humbleness is the one way ticket to an emotionally healthier America. You can ensure that American health, happiness and prosperity will come from an emotionally humble/healthy America. You can wake up America and the world to humbleness being the path to emotional health and the clear solution to health, happiness and prosperity.

Again issues like shyness are an emotional health problem; right in your domain. You have the opportunity to wake up America to the fact that shyness is the health club of the mind. It is no coincidence that Gandhi, Einstein, Lincoln, FDR were all shy. Their shyness powered brains were a big factor in their greatness. Shypower is a great resource that is waiting to be harnessed; you have a responsibility to make it happen.

I have already published over 1600 articles on wisdom/emotional-intelligence/emotional-health/brain education issues. Please google, '4th r foundation sajid khan' to review my work and create your new agenda of defining the problems and solutions to our current emotional-health/upbringing/parenting mess that your office needs to bring to the attention of our leaders and every American. You can make President Obama's dream of changing America into a reality.

I can help you redefine your priorities and frame your new agenda to make every American healed into emotional health.

The 4th R Foundation is a non-profit education research foundation that researches informal/emotional intelligence education, human nature, brain, mind, conscientiousness, self, wisdom, life coaching, adult reeducation, shyness, self-image, emotional brain baggage etc.

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