The rushed life and its effects on our bodies and brains

Achieving things faster to shave some seconds off our daily routines became an obsession in our lives.
Our days, as a result, are regulated by a strict timing that is turning our life into a robotic, scheduled existence.
We want to learn skills that took our grandparents years of assiduous practice in a matter of months.
We seem to be rushing, force-feeding our bodies with pseudo-techniques that promise hassle-free, fast results.
Trying to shorten our learning processes, jamming way too many activities into our days and looking for faster ways to do things, led to the emergence of alienated, unfulfilled and overburdened beings that are crumbling under the weight of this alarming pace.
We are continuously hearing words like productivity, efficiency, time management. All these elements correlate with speed, agitation, and anxiety.
Hastening through life results in high levels of stress which our brain and body were not designed to handle. This psychotic rhythm, if sustained over long periods of time, could lead to dire consequences health-wise.
Rest, that is sometimes sadly associated with laziness and idleness, should be a very important component in our lives.
Our brains and our bodies are self-healing if not tampered with through the abusive use of medication. That curative process is more efficient when we are at rest, as all the energy is funneled towards it.
We learn better when we are relaxed, and our brain isn’t encumbered with idle brooding, and stress induced thinking.
A relaxed brain is able to rearrange all the information that we have soaked up during the day, and come up with elegant solutions to our daily issues.
When we deprive ourselves of that much needed downtime, we hinder ourselves and we greatly slow down the healing, and solution seeking activity of our brain.