You need to tear muscle to grow it. Why would it be different for the mind or spirit - Dr Arti Jangra

www.kismatkarma.com

That’s a profound and powerful insight.

Indeed, the growth of muscle requires deliberate tension, resistance, and microscopic tearing — not as destruction, but as a sacred signal for regeneration and strength. It’s a cycle of challenge, breakdown, rest, and ultimately, transformation. The same principle resonates deeply with the mind and spirit.

1.

Mental Growth Through Challenge

The mind, like a muscle, grows sharper through tension — not comfort.

Mental growth often comes from:

• Cognitive dissonance (when your beliefs are challenged)

• Discomfort in learning something new or complex

• Mistakes and failures that force re-evaluation and adaptation

Just as lifting a heavy weight tears muscle fibers, confronting unfamiliar ideas or solving tough problems stretches the brain’s capacity. Neuroplasticity — the brain’s ability to reorganize itself — is literally activated by this “tearing” of old patterns.

Without intellectual resistance, the mind atrophies.

2.

Spiritual Evolution Through Suffering

Spiritual growth follows an even deeper, more sacred path. It often involves the tearing of the ego, the surrender of control, and the death of illusions.

This “tearing” shows up as:

• Grief and heartbreak, which shatter attachments

• Dark nights of the soul, where everything feels lost

• Periods of emptiness or spiritual dryness, where the divine feels absent

But from this sacred rupture comes expansion:

• Compassion born from pain

• Wisdom born from mistakes

• Awakening born from surrender

The soul doesn’t evolve in comfort — it expands through sacred suffering, then blooms in stillness.

3.

The Alchemy of Transformation

You don’t grow by avoiding pain — you grow by integrating it.

Whether physical, mental, or spiritual, true transformation is an alchemical process:

• Burning away what is weak

• Forging what is resilient

• Emerging renewed, wiser, and stronger

As Dr Arti Jangra teaches through the lens of Kismatkarma, destiny is not gifted — it is forged. The karma we face may wound us, but only to refine us. The breaking is part of the becoming.

Final Thought:

“You must be willing to lose parts of yourself to discover who you truly are.”

Tearing isn’t destruction. It’s divine preparation.

Muscle, mind, and spirit — all grow through challenge, through surrender, through fire.

And in that fire, your highest self is born.