The Sixth Obstacle—Feeling Heavy and Burnt Out

We all experience exhaustion, stress, and overload from time to time, so karma reminds us to pay attention to these feelings, slow down, and bring some balance and harmony back into our lives. This is how to overcome the obstacle of becoming burnt out. Being energetic, enthusiastic, happy, and focused is hard when faced with heavy feelings and exhaustion. The basis of life is energy, and what we do with our energy determines whether we survive or perish. To overcome feeling heavy and burnt out, we need to balance our energy, body, mind, and soul, which leads to harmony. It is so easy to get caught up in the dramas and stressors of life and let them lead us to exhaustion. But the irony of life is that for all our outward strivings and all the dramas, in the end, the sum total always adds up to zero. We take none of the dramas, problems, and stressors when we depart this world. What we do take is the compassion, understanding, and kindness we give to ourselves and others. This requires flexibility, strength, balance, and inner peace. Let’s get started. END: The irony of life is that for all our outward strivings and dramas, the sum total always adds up to zero. What we take as we depart this world is the compassion, understanding, and kindness we give ourselves and others. Life is all about our experiences, and how we use our energy in each of these experiences determines whether we live a life of harmony or strife, with the heaviness and dramas that lead to burnout. EGO: Flip your palms up and extend your index finger, symbolizing your ego. The ego constantly strives to excel, be important, and consume. It wants acceptance and love. All of this comes from the Citta or the perceptions we hold in our minds. They keep us in a constant state of fluctuation, making it easy to get burned out. Pull your finger in and place your thumb on top. Take a breath and surrender to your soul. The soul sits back and watches as the mind, the ego, or the “I” strives to feel important and always be right. Once you begin to control the “I”(ego) and see it for what it is: our desires, cravings, distractions, worries, and self-doubt, you can then begin to take control over your thoughts and exercise your free will. There is nothing wrong with the world. It is here for you to use it. You can make it a peaceful and harmonious place or a heavy, dramatic, and exhausting place where you become stressed and burnt out. The antidote to feeling heavy and burnt out is living a balanced and harmonious life. Namaste ~ may you walk the path of life with health, happiness, and peace. Doctor Lynn For books, classes, consultations, and more http://www.doctorlyn.com