Manmade Items Wear Out with Use
We cannot figure yet how to work such a wonder into our own man-made goods. Chains, tires, or hydraulic lifts wear out more quickly with frequent stress.
Imagine if we could impart the technology into tires that exists in muscles. The more you drive, the thicker the rubber becomes and the treads become DEEPER with stress instead of thinner and weaker, eventually needing replacement.
With such technology, chains could fatten their metal when stressed rather than risk breakage at the weakest link.
Overcoming Hardship in Life
This amazing ability in our muscles has a parallel in people who have overcome hardship.
There is something spiritual that develops in a person's character when choosing to learn and grow, harvesting beauty from ashes rather than seething in bitterness.
DAMAGED MUSCLES HURT
For muscles to grow in size they must be damaged. Damage sounds bad but in the dynamic designed for our muscles, this creates two things: a higher demand for strength and the need to rebuild what is damaged.
It is interesting that growth occurs during the rest period, not during the exercise or stress. During rest is when muscles utilize the skill to rebuild bigger and better.
Find a spiritual parallel here. Each time muscles are stressed and damaged, they rebuild exceeding their previous level. This is how muscles can grow bigger and stronger.
No Stress is Dangerous
The same dynamics exist in plants. The risk with plants in perfect conditions and an ideal environment is their continued health. Without stress, they are far more prone to perish quickly if exposed to normal weather or non-ideal conditions. A "sheltered life" creates weaklings.
Plants Also Require Some Struggle
In contrast, plant life surviving the elements, surviving enemies and surviving storms; are better rooted and able to continue surviving. This appears to be a universal pattern in nature.
I think there is something here for us to learn for ourselves.
A HUMAN LIFE WITHOUT STRESS OR CHALLENGE
A sterile environment of leisure without work or exercise, does not make a strong person but a weak, vulnerable person unprepared for the common adversities in life.
People without Struggle
A sterile environment of leisure without work or exercise, does not make a strong person but a weak, vulnerable person unprepared for the common adversities in life. To those never challeged, the smallest challenge can be devastating.
Appreciate the challenges in your life that build who you are.
With smart choices adversity can become exercise building your character, stronger and stronger.
Desire wisdom and strength more than leisure and escape.
Good Choices
Muscles operate by a cause and effect design that is incredible and impressive.
Our personal life does not have the same automatic strength resulting from stress. Choices make all the difference.
No one escapes suffering in this life. The trick for you is to be one of those people who heals while resting wisely and rather than being ruined by suffering and stress, finds creative ways to grow stronger because of it.
Learn from your own muscles.
Make life's marks on you become strength, not scars.
