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Hey, I havent posted in a while... So I decided to drop some hair growth knowledge on all of u.
Here is my theory...
Stop thinking about your hair and it will grow a hell of a lot faster!! trust me this works! If you keep looking at your hair every single day, wondering if it got any longer it will seem like it's taking forever (You may as well be standing out in your garden and watching the grass grow)
Just forget that your hair is there at all!! yes completely forget that you have hair on your head!!! then one day you will wake up and look in the mirror and be a long hair!
Does anyone agree with me?????!!!!!!!
... has become my strong theory also. As they say, "A watched pot never boils." This is exactly the direction I have set upon this time around. The pic I have accompanying this post shows the length I was at just prior to cutting it all off back in April of 2004. Just think of where I would be today if I had not made that terrible decision. Oh well, water under the bridge, huh?
Anyway, after I resolved back in October of 2005 to grow my hair again, I said to myself (and also here on the board) that I would pay less attention to my hair than I did last time. No more monthly pictoral journal web-site as I had last time around. No more checking the length every other day (if I can restrain myself). Just go day to day at my job, playing in my Country & Rock'n'Roll band on the week-ends, spending time with my beautiful family and just letting my hair do it's thing in the background. Worked wonders so far. I do catch myself time to time checking the length and what-not, but not near as obsessively as before. So, in closing, I do believe that with this theory in force, I have a greater chance of long term success. Thanks for sharing that bit of insight, it will do a lot of us a lot of good to heed that advice. Peace!
A watched pot will never boil at all if you don't put the fire on, though. In other words, although I'm sure the original poster didn't mean it so literally, "doing nothing" to your hair will result in nothing good back to you. I'm sure you didn't mean to literally forget about your hair, but hey, somebody might have misinterpreted it.
It's totally true, though. I used to check my hair length every day, even multiple times during a day, and it was annoying as hell. You hear that hair grows every day, but you don't notice any growth (minuscule as it is) and you get discouraged and feel like hacking off your hair. But if you leave your hair, you'd be amazed how much more the new length stands out at you when you do finally check it. It's not really unhealthy to check your hair all the time, but it could to a kind of OCD-like obsession over time, I suppose.
You know, I agree with dude #1. My hair is at the small of my back, and I remember the day that I looked over my shoulder in a mirror and was like "what-the-crap!?". Yeah. It's like watching a dog grow. You don't notice your own dog growing, but your friends come over and are like "what-the-crap?!" Yeah. Long. Mmm. Jesus. That's why I stopped cutting my hair 8 years ago. Yeah. People started telling me that looked like Him. If I can make somebody think about Jesus for any reason what-so-ever, heck, I'm gonna do it! Right!?! Amen, brotha. Peace.
heh, I sound like such a hippie. haha.
Well, God Bless!, my fellow intellectuals!
Your kin in the longhaired,
John Wrot!
p.s. Pic was going to be included so that the hair may be desplayed for the good of all, but is too big. It also displayed that it is a well known fact that all men with long hair should play with swords. If they don't have even a remote interest then they are questionable brethren. But alas, too big. : P PEACE!
"All men with long hair should play with swords" makes about as much sense as "all men with long hair should learn how to do C&W dancing". Just because I like to do C&W dancing, doesn't mean you have to. --- or that you are a "questionable bretheren" if you don't. Hey, while I'm at it...
"All men with long hair should become excellent Swing and Salsa dancers."
"All men with long hair should attend a cooking school at some point in their life."
"All men with long hair should become excellent rose gardeners."
"All men with long hair should have at least one nephew with dreadlocks."
"All men with long hair should become gay; but also have experienced marriage to a woman."
There. Now I've just started a club of "longhaired bretheren" in which I'm going to be TOP DOG, --- since I excel at all of the above! It may become a bit of a lonely club, though, since I doubt many here on this board can say they've done much of the above...
- Ken in San Francisco
I did the same. I used to check my hair every day. It is very unhealthy to do so. It is just time wasting and unnessecary, tell myself that but i can't cease the thoughts.I have pure OCD but i try to control myself. I used to count all the shred strands after they fell out in the shower and worry about the loss. Thankfully i have got over this now but always a new thing will come up(another obsession) and that will replace the old one. Not just hair but many things in life. Do you suffer from OCD?
Aah, Pure O. I actually used to count/keep check on my shed hairs too, but I don't think it was obsessive (although some will say even doing so in the first place is obsessive). I had a reason to, I guess, since my hair HAS actually thinned a little so I was just keeping tabs on how that was progressing. Now that my initial suspicion was confirmed I just get on with things without giving the issue a second thought.
Matt
partly ...
on the one hand you r completely right ... if you watch about your hair length every day (unfortunately i tend to do that with a measurement tape) it seems to have a very slow grow rate / takes forever to reach a desired lenght ...
on the other hand: if you dont look (=maybe care about your hair generally then it might be possible that you get split ends/breakage/damage without noticing it (dependend of hair type of course) ...
i would say checking the hair condition regulary is necessary but it's better to NOT measure the hair length every day :)
greez,
ALH
Yes, i totally agree with your "theory". Growing hair is a test of a man's patience. However, it is easier said than done. I will admit , i do think about my hair too often and look in the mirror to see if it is looking good and if it is growing more but this is all normal. It means i love my hair and i am dedicated to looking after it and nurturing it. I do have OCD and am prone to an obsessive nature. I go through phases. A few years ago i could not stop thinking about electric guitar, i waatned to be like Yngwie Malmsteen and Joe Satriani and i would play all day and watch their DVDs and study them. I my childhood i used to have a tendancy to get obsessed with computer games and think about them 24-7. Even when i wasen't playing the game i felt like i was the character in it going around and slicing up monsters with my 2 handed sword. My friend is growing his hair but he is so carefree and relaxed with the whole process and i admire that. Myself on the contrary is paranoid, worried and somewhat nuerotic over my hair.
Myself on the contrary is paranoid, worried and somewhat nuerotic over my hair.
At least you are as harsh on your self as you are with others.
If you could chill just a little bit you mighy enjoy your hair
more.
Not entirely : I'm ok with your opinion only if the fact to think about and to look at our hair gives us STRESS, but I have experienced the opposite : since I care for my hair, they are growing faster, 0.5 inches/month before and 0.7 now !
meaning washing and conditioning. Don't dry with a hair dryer on hot. Don't dwell on continued looking at yourself in the mirror. Don't get in the "trim-mode" right away. THAT is what will really make your hair seem as if it isn't growing fast enough. It will defeat yourself from achieving long hair by months upon end needlessly. Forget all of this "I have to get my hair evened-up" talk. Just let it grow on its own and it falls into place perfectly in the end. Try to let it grow 2 years non-stop if possible. If not possible, (because of split end troubles that become severe) just have them tended to individually. The loss of length won't even be noticed except by yourself...........and in this case much for the better for yourself.
i agree. i have been trying to not worry about my hair so much and trying not to look in the mirror so much. its hard but i am getting better about it.=)
The more you look in the mirror, the more discouraging it can be.
I think you idea will make everything easier and certainly more pleasant.
