Take a Break

The human brain is a wonderful thing, it is capable of so much, but most of what it can do is only possible when it is treated well.  The human brain is one of the most masochistic creations in the Universe.  Everything we say and do ultimately comes from our Brains, and every action we take that does harm to it is consequently an action that it caused to begin with.  We can't do anything without using our brain to do it, so even when we harm our brains it is our brains themselves that are causing that harm.

Our brains seem to get bored with our senses very quickly however, with the ability to control what we do and do not feel, our senses are often numbed.  When you experience something pleasurable it causes great pleasure initially but the more you do it the less potent it becomes until you reach a point where your brain isn't even paying attention anymore.  This isn't limited to things that are good, it also applies to things that are bad, like pain, after a while you become numb to it.

It becomes necessary in almost everything we do, to take a break for a while, sometimes minutes, sometimes hours, even days or weeks are needed to reset our perception.  We become numb to so much so quickly.  Yet for some reason we are often reluctant to take that break, to step away for a while and let go of the things we have been doing in repetition.  Our brains seem to love routine more than anything because it optimizes the way we process it over time until it does it without thinking about it much.  Physical tasks can become so repetitive that we actually develop something that is referred to as "Muscle memory" - of course that's a figurative description, your muscles don't actually contain grey matter and don't actually hold memories, yet the term describes the peculiar ability to do something without thinking about it consciously, simply because you have done it so often.

Taking a break in order to "resensitize" ourselves becomes something that our brains it seems at times will fight against.  It's interesting to ponder why that may be the case, maybe it is just a case of being less effort to have routine and predictability, or perhaps there is something more sinister at play, for example perhaps the experience of our senses is actually something traumatic for our brains to endure and predictability is a bastion of comfort.