How to Recover from Obsessive Hyper-perfectionism Using Wabi-Sabi the Japanese art of Imperfection?

The Neurology of Obsession for the Perfection

1. Seeking perfection, and being too obsessed with perfection is a phenomenon called obsessive-compulsive disorder.
2. Individuals with OCD, become excessively obsessive about keeping things organized, hygienic, structured, and in place.
3. Perfection is a routine, which means an unchangeable way of doing something.
4. Basal Ganglia part of our brain stores routines, such as how to tie the lace, tuck shirts, swim, cycling. You can never explain how you tie the shoelace. You just learn and do it. This is also called the habit brain.
   

5. The habit brain is part of our limbic brain, the primal brain, which is common in all mammals and therefore is the animalistic part of the brain.
6. Amygdala is the part of the Basal Ganglia which is our flight and fight react brain.
7. Basal Ganglia also controls our involuntary muscle movements.

8. The Hypothalamus part of the Basal Ganglia acts as the bridge between our nervous system and endocrine system. This encodes the nervous system and passes it onto the pituitary gland, and the chemical(hormonal signals) from the pituitary gland is translated to an electrical signal for the brain to understand the hormonal state of the body.
9. The hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal axis combing is responsible for our stress handling and is called the Flight-Fight system.
10. Our flight and fight system is part of our Autonomic Nervous system that helps all the major organs of the body to function without the brain being needed to take every single decision. The autonomic nervous system enables the body to save energy by taking decisions without bothering our brain.

11. Lyfas is a technology that enables you to measure the state of the autonomic nervous system and therefore stress, using a technology called heart rate variability^​1​.
12. Though the body must take over the brain under any real threat, such as when you see a snake, if the brain is not involved in an executive decision, then the body will feel threatened by any simple stressors and would activate flight-fight-response.
13. Under the flight-fight response, the body is filled with adrenaline hormone from the adrenal gland, because the HPA axis controls our stressor response. This causes irritation which then leads to anger.

14. The frontal part of our brain is called the pre-frontal cortex.
15. The pre-frontal cortex(PFC) separates humans from other animals. This is the executive brain that is responsible for deep thinking, abstract correlation, and rational decision-making.
16. PFC also has the consciousness center that makes us humans and gives us human values such as wisdom, virtue, empathy, intelligence, intellectuality, and rationality.
17. We are not born with PFC, but rather the development of PFC happens throughout the first 25 years of life.
18. In case of childhood trauma, such as sexual violence, absent parents, emotionally absent parents, or a mother with mood swings, the brain feels threatened and switches to flight-fight mode.
19. Over the period of life, the body is run by the HPA axis, rather than PFC.
20. Any change in the environment is called stress. Because the HPA axis relies on no change in the environment, such individuals with HPA-driven decision brain, rather than PFC-driven decision brain relies on fixed habits, and a never-changing environment, because such changes put the body under a stress.
21. The slightest of changes when putting the body into adrenaline mode is called neuroticism. Neuroticism is a hallmark of anxiety disorder. The heart has to pump more blood when the body is in adrenaline mode. So the heart can not predict when it has to start overworking and after a period it humps, jumps, pumps, and pounds, leading to palpitation and anxiety disorder.
22. In order to protect itself from anxiety, the brain becomes exceedingly vigilant about the changes.

Therefore the obsession for compulsion is a phenomenon of an individual with childhood trauma that led to the impairment of the prefrontal cortex, and one who operates with the animalistic limbic brain, that triggers adrenaline when there is even the slightest of changes, due to excessive stressors the brain feels due to lack of brain surface area(Stress=Pressure/Area). And so, such individuals will have low consciousness, extreme anger will react to any changes, and will be extremely opinionated(because habits can’t be changed, and need to be defended by opinions). The stressor induced reaction is called the impulsiveness.