Are you exhausted by everything that is going on in your personal life and or out in the world? Feeling burned out?
But you look fine!? Do you need a break or a little reprieve?
You answer all your emails and you show up on time, you keep it all together. At least that's how it looks to everyone else, but how are you really feeling inside? Does everything seem off or is all you want to do is take a nap? Feeling ultimately exhausted and sleep doesn't really fix it?
You're functioning, yes, but does it feel like living? Does the burnout hide behind a full calendar and a capable smile?
Burnout wears us down. We keep meeting deadlines, showing up, holding things together while quietly running on empty. Many of us high achievers don't recognize when they've crossed from productive engaged intensity into stress-driven performance powered by fear rather than genuine motivation and passion. From the outside they both look identical.
From the inside they're completely unique.
Is it time to take a walk around the block, time to pause and have some tea, time to meditate and breathe or time to ground yourself and relax and just let go of the day.
Listen to your body and it will tell you what it needs.
Physical symptoms may be:
- Tension
- Tight shoulders and neck
- Headaches
- Jaw being tight
- Digestive issues
- Shallow breathing
- Sleepiness
Just to name a few.
Your body feels perpetually switched on, like it never fully powers down or like always having your foot on the gas.
Time to disconnect and powers down. Let go. Ground off all of the techy stuff you have been doing: your phone, your laptop, your tablet, gaming, the news, and even TV. Let it all go and just let all that energy go down the grounding cord, literally unplugging energetically.
It gives you the freedom to be and to just be you!
Begin to put yourself on your own to do list. Give yourself 30 minutes or an hour or more every day just for you to breathe, to write, to walk, to dance, to sing, whatever makes you feel that joyousness within you that you are expressing in the world, like we did as little kids.
Being grateful about all the blessing in life and giving ourselves a nice deep breathe to just enjoy being in present time!!!
Photo of a beautiful water fall from my Louise Hay calendar