Dear Men, Tame Your Mind And Body- Aldrin David

 June is Men’s Health Month. This article is dedicated to Men. Unexercised raw strength derived from the will can cause fatigue. It pushes him to tear through his muscles and bones with brutal training. It doesn’t ask for comfort. It demands discipline. It calls for the body to be tamed, not pampered. It asks for denial of desires. Like the good book says—deny the flesh. Let the spirit lead.

But don’t confuse taming with domesticating. A tamed man is not a weak man. He’s a beast with control. A wild force guided by higher thought. A man who can wrestle lions but also sit with philosophers. That's real balance—body and mind in harmony. Raw strength and superior intellect in a man must have balance. Such harmony of the mind and flesh must be attained by men who are exhausted from the modern world trying to domesticate him. The modern world tries to domesticate man—soften him, shame him for being masculine, strip him of spirit, reduce him to a slave of instinct. Spiritually neutered. Emotionally lost. The worst thing is that he is reduced to being a wild beast who is a slave to his instinct.

But man is not just an animal. He’s not a god either. He stands in between. Like the prophet of dead God, Nietzsche said, “Man is a rope stretched between the beast and the Übermensch.” That’s the challenge. To rise. To choose to overcome.                    

Man must be a master of his flesh and a servant of his soul for it is what the wild beasts lack. Soul, divine spark, choice of word… this makes him man. If someone wants to transcend himself, he needs to master the desires and regulate emotions. A man who conquers himself can conquer anything.

Tame the flesh with intense training and serve your soul with books. In this modern world of ours, the habit of reading is often neglected. The intellect is deprived of knowledge. So man indulges in all kinds of perverted desires and thus dies from its own weight.

Let the sun tan your skin and let the steel train your body. Seek wisdom for your soul since wisdom is like a woman, she only prefers the warriors. Dear Men, Tame Your Mind and Body.