The Necessity of Daily Exhaustion of Body, Mind, and Spirit

When Following The Andreia Philosophy, a wanderer designates masteries in Body, Mind, and Spirit. Learn more on the about page.

Mastery is meant to be pursued throughout all of life, understanding that the paths we aim to master will change, like how the famous samurai Miyamoto Musashi initially pursued swordsmanship and later in his life pursued calligraphy, painting, metallurgy, and other skills. As his body, mind, and spirit changed due to erosion and changes in the river of time, so did his paths.

So it goes with all wanderers.

A good day on the path involves exhausting Body, mind, and spirit to almost nothing, but not far enough to where the wanderer cannot effectively walk the path the next day–unless duty calls for it.

The three pillars must be balanced. They are interconnected. When you fatigue the body you gain confidence in your spirit and ideas in your mind. This is why you must never neglect the body.

Exhausting the three pillars each day is how you sleep well at night. Sleeping when you have not exhausted the three domains is ineffective because what has not been depleted does not benefit from being replenished.

Every day you exhaust body, mind, spirit so that sleep may refill each with new and refreshed capacity. Capacity becomes stale if not burned down and replenished. Every day is a wildfire that destroys so the ashes can be used for future growth.

Sleep is crucial for the wanderer on the path because fulfillment is difficult–the path is difficult–and the more energy we have, the more we can pursue the goals along our path.

Time spent on the path

Fulfillment in The Andreia Philosophy depends entirely on walking the path in each of your masteries contained within Body, Mind, and Spirit: the triplicity of man.

We want to walk far so we find fulfillment through attainment and attainment is found on the path; the more you attain on the path, the more you are fulfilled–time spent on the path is fulfillment.

If you do not spend enough time on the path, you will not live a fulfilling life. Fulfillment is found on the path.

The refusal to pursue your paths will lead to mental, physical, and spiritual problems. This is law. The path must be kept in mind at all times.

Pleasure is not forbidden but restricted because unearned pleasure causes inflammation in the body, mind, and spirit.

Pleasure goes in small doses at the end of a full day on the path, and a full week, and a full month, maybe a full year; you have to determine how much time you spend off the path while controlling it closely.

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Uncontrolled time off the path leads to the calcification of progress in body, mind, and spirit pursuits and a general decay of each.

Trying Your Best – Giving Your ALL

There are Millions of benefits in giving your all across body, mind, and spirit each day. One of the top benefits is giving your all makes pleasure non-toxic and much more rewarding.

Pleasure is meant to be a reward from the path, which helps refresh your body, mind, and spirit for the path. The pursuit of pleasure is toxic. The avoidance of pleasure over long, extended periods can be toxic, but not always.

The pursuit of fulfillment must be the majority compared to the pursuit of pleasure in order to live a fulfilling life. This is difficult in advanced societies because as societies advance they solve problems, which reduces difficulty, which reduces fulfillment and increases pleasure. This is why the pursuit of a body discipline is crucial in advanced societies where one must choose to pursue fulfillment.

The individual pursuit of mastery in body, mind, and spirit preserves and progresses the self and society, of which society is made up of many selves.

A society that pursues pleasure instead of mastery is destined for death, as is the individual.

You will find more fulfillment by giving your all.

FTA – Fulfillment Through Attainment.