Why you are going crazy

This concept is most easily understood in the Physical, so we will start there. Have you or a friend ever had to wear a cast for a month or two? What happens to that part of the body? How weak do we physically get with just a few weeks of no movement? On the other hand, what would happen if you took in a steady stream of stimulants and just lifted weights or ran in the same way until your body broke down? Would you get stronger, or would you destroy yourself with that? Clearly, intervals of eustress and rest are what build and maintain us physically.

There are at least 4 dimensions to a Human Being: Physical, Mental, Social, and Spiritual.

Are the other dimensions somehow different? Have you ever "gotten rusty" at a mental skill? Personally, I can remember working my ass off for straight A's through three semesters of calculus, and right now I bet I could not solve the simplest story problem with those skills without a little refresher. On the flip side, how sharp do you feel after cramming? It seems that the brain naturally enforces a rest interval with sleep, but if we manipulate our body chemistry against that are we better off? (Meth-amphitimines anyone?) Of course not!

Without beating this horse further, the point is stress+intervals of rest = maintenance and growth. Problem is, we seldom intionally set ourselves up for eustress/recovery cycle in all dimensions. Who pushes their sense of empathy like a weightlifter doing squats? Who trains spiritually like a marathoner for a special event? Rare birds indeed.

So "What do you do when you get 'that 2 o'clock feeling'?"(5 hour energy commercial) - How about take a friggin' nap? Do you have emotional casts on? How badly have we atrophied spiritually? Now, your reading crap on the internet chops are probably solid: shut it down and GO!