Avoid Meathead Syndrome! Practice Cranial Calisthenics! 
An important part of balanced health is mental relaxation and stimulation.
Here is a personal list of my favourite books and films to pleasurably exercise the muscle of the mind.
Books
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Blindness - Jose Saramago
Brain Workouts - Gareth Moore
Don't Sweat The Small Stuff - Richard Carlson, Ph.D.
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - R. L. Stevenson
Fount Children's Bible - Andrew Knowles
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
I Love You Like a Tomato - Marie Giordano
I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
L'Amant - Marguerite Duras
Logic Pocket Puzzles - Arcturus Publishing Ltd. (2007)
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Night - Elie Wiesel
No Logo - Naomi Klein
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Rethinking Mathematics - Eric Gutstein & Bob Peterson
Run With The Hunted - Charles Bukowski
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
Sweetness In The Belly - Camilla Gibb
The Accidental - Ali Smith
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Mordecai Richler
The Catcher In The Rye - J. D. Salinger
The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein
The Little Engine That Could - Watty Piper
The Long Hard Road Out of Hell - Marilyn Manson
The Mountains of Tibet - Mordicai Gerstein
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Power of Logical Thinking - Marilyn Vos Savant
The Read-Aloud Handbook - Jim Trelease
The Seven Worst Things Parents Do - Friel & Friel
The Tale of the Unknown Island - Jose Saramago
Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Albom
Wolf Island – Celia Godkin
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
You're Not Sick, You're Thirsty - F. Batmanghelidj, M.D.
Films
A Christmas Story
Alpha Dog
American History X
An Inconvenient Truth (doc)
Angela's Ashes
Before Stonewall (doc)
Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Billy Elliot
Bowling For Columbine (doc)
Bully
Capturing The Friedmans (doc)
City of God
Crash
Crude Awakening (doc)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (doc)
Falling Down
Far From Heaven
Fast Food Nation
Focus
Freedom Writers
Happiness
Happy Gilmour
Hooked: Illegal Drugs & How They Got That Way (doc)
Iraq in Fragments (doc)
Jesus Camp (doc)
Kids
Lars and the Real Girl
Manufactured Landscapes (doc)
Manufacturing Dissent (doc)
March of The Penguins (doc)
Maria Full of Grace
Napoleon Dynamite
Nine Good Teeth (doc)
On Golden Pond
Roger & Me (doc)
Scared Sacred (doc)
Sicko (doc)
Song For A Raggy Boy
Stella
Supersize Me (doc)
Superstar
Thank You For Smoking
The American Ruling Class (doc
The Big One (doc)
The Corporation (doc)
The Pianist
Water
Who Killed The Electric Car? (doc)
Wild Dogs
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971)
Please send any of your own book or movie recommendations to ohyesyoucanfitness@hotmail.com.
