Revelations Through Resilience uses anecdotal storytelling and crude humor to deliver life realizations that can be used as a guide for holisitc wellness and mental wellbeing. It is about rewiring one’s brain from inherited influences and finding alignment in oneself.
Revelations Through Resilience details how the author, Matt Mizerek, was raised to view the world in complete fear resulting in two massive strokes in his brain at 33 years old. Written from a first person perspective, it describes his upbringing in an abusive household, his sedation from his mentally ill parents, the days surrounding his two strokes at 33 years old, an overview of his detox and recovery, and the lifechanging realizations learned from all of these experiences.
Matt successfully intertwines humorous phrases like, “As she lit more gas than Bruce Willis at the end of Die Hard, I sunk deeper into depression and alcoholism. Yippee-ki-yay, m*********.” with deep, psychoanalytical statements in sections entitled “Sedation Nation & The Diet Of Our Minds” and “Toxic Codependency and Narcissistic Enablement.”
With 2 parts story, 1 part analysis, and a dash of pure wit, you might just not fall asleep reading this bad boy.
Sections include:
Let the Comeback Be Better Than the Setback
Toxic Codependency and Narcissistic Enablement
Sedation Nation & The Diet Of Our Minds
Pass the Generational Fear
Religion, God, and The Unknown
Reality Check: Guns, Drugs, Love and Art
The Relationship Between Risk, Reward and Self-Confidence
Nature Vs Nurture Vs Potential
Fear Is The Root of All Evil
We Are All Products of Our Environments
*Contains coarse language
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Preview (Section From Book)
We Are All Products of Our Environments
My out of body experience let me see myself and the truth of the world as it really was around me.
That each of us are mere products of our environments. And, our arrogance and fear for righteousness pit us against each other.
I became open to the fact that maybe society is so screwed up that we are all brainwashed at birth to believe we have to compete in superficial ways to survive.
Many people say “Life is a game of attrition.” I agree. But only because modern society has made it that way.
During the 8 years that followed my two strokes, I lost 75 pounds, got off every single medication prescribed to me, stopped drinking alcohol entirely, and corrected my own putrid way of seeing the world.
Instead of immediately judging and sizing up every person I saw, I trained my brain to see just humans trying to figure it all out just like me. We are just products from different boxes all strewn out on the floor.
I worked on seeing people for who they were and not the ‘box’ they came from.
If the fear of death wasn’t enough, human made fabrications like money, religion, politics, and sex have become tools by the powerful to shame others into feeling like they have to keep playing this game of attrition.
And, not going to lie, it is a bloody war to escape this mindset by the time you die.
Every aspect of life influences a person’s outlook: their family & friends, their neighbors, TV shows, music, art, and even the way the media makes everyone hate people in China. (Sorry Chinese people, I just used you as an example. Chillax.)
To successfully feel relief from the absurdity that is modern human society and not feel the constant unease of competition, a person needs to wholly and completely realize they are a mere product of their environment. And, nothing else.
When we acknowledge that our emotions are driven from the things we experienced so far in our lives, we can acknowledge that there are things we have not experienced. And, if we have not experienced certain things, it’s safe to say we are ignorant to other perspectives not yet known.
Our loves and hatreds are built from the influences around us. But, some things that are built are meant to be torn down.
Being able to approach a person with absolutely no agenda and simply be grateful for them in your life is an exceptional feeling. This takes understanding that our ‘products’ are different and have been made in different ‘facilities’. And, these other ‘facilities’ are no more right or wrong than your own.