De-Stress, Relax, Defragment: A Braintenance Experiment

While you look at the above photo with doubt, aren't you just the slightest bit envious? We defragment our computers. We take our automobiles in for servicing after we've driven them for a while. We have blood drawn and go to doctors for all sorts of tests. Why is it that we each tend to put our own state of psychological and emotional health last on our list of life-maintenance priorities? We need to rest, re-set, re-calibrate and refresh our perspective from time to time... and we actually damage our incredibly complex and delicate inner workings by this 'customary' neglect. We burn out. We break down. We make bad decisions and say things that we regret. When we fail to maintain our brains, we do damage to ourselves, to those around us, and possibly (to those of you who are excited by theosophy , Rosicrucianism , collectivism, and the Celestine Prophesy sort of thing) even the Collective Consciousness . It would seem that we do a great deal of unintended harm by no...