A blank stare on your face, because reality as you know it has just crumbled around you. Life was good, and suddenly, you're stuck facing a brick wall and it seems like there's no way out.
At first, you turn around and look behind you. You've left nothing in your path but a wave of destruction and emotional turmoil. You want nothing to do with it anymore, but where can you possibly go?
A normal person in these circumstances would go rely on someone else to get them out of trouble. They would seek out the comfort of family and friends. Me, personally? I run straight into the wall, and self-destruct.
Many people seem to be alarmed by this kind of behavior. Sure, it's a rather dangerous process, as you start putting your mind and body through sheer hell throughout the ordeal, but there is definitely something to be gained from it all in the end. Honestly, it's no different than anything else you do to yourself to make yourself healthier and better.
When we gain weight, we go on a diet. The first thing that any real diet (Atkins was not a diet) has you do is a total purge of your system. Not everybody adheres to the water requirements of this part of the diet, and soon learn their lesson on it. The entire point of this part is to get as much waste out of it as you can. A kind of systemic flush.
This process is not gentle, nor is it easy. The mind suffers more than anything, because you're fighting against yourself the entire way. You're trying to convince yourself that all of the discomfort and non-filling meals are going to be worth it in the end. Anybody who has gone through with this will tell you that the biggest hurdle is yourself.
After dieting, people typically start exercising to get fit, so that they can really fill out their new form. Some people take up running/jogging. Others do things like bike riding, weight lifting, or even just simple exercises that can be done around the house (like stretching). Have you people any idea what's happening during all of this?
Every time you stretch, you are tearing your muscles to shreds, and they regrow more flexible than last time. This is how people can get as flexible as they are. Even a relatively fat person can get this flexible with constant stretching. The same is said for when you're jogging, only now you're also running the risk of bone spurs in your shins. Weight lifting? Yep. Same thing.
Every single thing that we do to better ourselves physically, we are putting our body through hell. We are literally destroying it so that it comes back better. Why can't the same be said for our mentality and personality? From what I'm seeing here, there is no better way to make yourself better than to destroy it, first.
The trick is knowing which pieces of yourself to pick back up, and which ones to leave behind.
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I get the general idea. A "regrown" mind is a better, new and improved, mind. It sticks out in this manner because of your relationship kind with the physical aspects you've named here. But it only works in one way that I know of. If you consider your "mind" as a sort of 'Sovereignty', a gift of free-thought and free-choice for your own desires, then this will work. Because 'Sovereignty' is always given by another. In the normal circumstances it is God who does this. And deleting this image of your own Sovereignty is to give it right back to him and receive his new start. His "Baptism of the Brain", if you will. lol. But any other way might destroy you, please keep this in mind. It was Nietzsche that had popularized the idea that man had seen the sunrise of the new era. God was now dead, and man could now lift himself up by his own moral bootstraps. How hideous irony can be sometimes, that now we know that Nietzsche spent the last 13 to 14 years of his life in complete insanity. Convulsing of thoughts every so often and shouting Biblical verses he had heard as a child. This "mind" he kept for himself had been stretched too far. Keep in mind that I am not saying this happens to everyone. Just as not everyone who diets through stretching and exercise will put himself in a wheelchair by taking it too far. But in the end the best advice on how to not do so will be from those who have taken the physical fall. And they may tell us what to do so as to not endure it with them. But for the thinker, the intellect, the man who gains all in himself by scholastics and constant education, when tragedy hits him in the end, if it does, he will no more tell us about his insanity as to remain sane, then a dog will tell you where he has hidden his best bones in a will he'd written before his death. For that information, you need God. At least in my point of retrospect. :)
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