What kind of tiredness do you have?
A lot of people only know one type of tiredness: complete exhaustion. They often only get there once in a blue moon or when they are sick. It also seems to have only one solution: sleep or bed rest. While this works wonders for complete exhaustion it's won't do much for other types of tiredness.
Tiredness types:
- Spiritual tiredness
- Mental tiredness
- Emotional tiredness
- Physical tiredness
Spiritual tiredness usually manifests in a certain type of deadness. We don't feel like your life has direction, we don't feel fulfilled, we don't feel truly happy or grateful. We tend to feel like our lives have no purpose and we don't exactly know how to deal with that. It's this weird almost bored like feeling.
Most people deal with spiritual tiredness by doing nothing, hiding it and holding on to parts of their life that aren't working. It's hard to get out of our comfort zone. Sometimes people make massive changes, but see little to no results in happiness or contentment.
Exercise:
Find your Passion.
- Imagine you are waving a magic wand into your life, what would you change?
- What would fill you with wonder?
- What would give you purpose?
- What would you need money for or what people do you need to meet?
If can't seem to connect to your passion and you keep feeling purposeless, ask for help.
Mental Tiredness
Mental tiredness usually means that we have been worrying or thinking too much or that our body is out of balance. We don't feel like doing the things we consider 'harder' or that require more mental energy. We don't feel like brainstorming or solving anything and problems tend to feel very big. It's often also hard to be flexible, because we can't seem to find solutions on the fly.
Most people try to recharge their mental batteries by doing what I affectionately call zombie-activities. The kind of things that have your brain on standby like flipping through magazines, being on the internet or watching some TV programs. While this can help reduce mental stress, it usually isn't enough to recharge.
Exercise:
Find activities that are mentally stimulating but recharge you or start focusing on the physical/emotional plane to recharge your mental batteries.
Good suggestions are:
- Meditation
- Yoga
- Physical Exercise (clearing your head!)
- Creative tasks (coloring, painting, etc.)
- Watching a documentary
- Reading a book
Emotional tiredness tends to manifest in feeling emotionally empty (all cried out) or feeling like you have little control of your emotions (crying, angry outbursts). Feeling overwhelmed, wanting to just crawl into bed and not come out are all signs of emotional tiredness.
Most people try to find emotional balance by either releasing stress and emotions or by being a bit more introverted until things pass. Sometimes however that's not enough, especially not if the emotional tiredness is a response to a big trauma.
Exercise:
First decide how long this has been going on and if you need help to deal with trauma or not. If you feel you want to give it a try yourself first, give yourself a deadline and goal points so you can accurately assess if what you are doing is helping or not.
If you are trying yourself, good exercises to release and balance emotions are:
- Talking to a friend
- Writing out your feelings in a journal
- EFT
- Releasing visualisations
- Pampering yourself
Emotional Physical tiredness is easy to recognize: we all know that feeling in our bones.
Most people try to rest up or sleep to deal with physical tiredness. If you keep feeling antsy, you might want to consider balancing your body with exercise or a massage to get back in tune with it. If that doesn't give adequate results, it's very likely that you have a different type of tiredness as well and you need to deal with that before the physical tiredness can be healed.
Want help to deal with your tiredness or share your story? Comment on the blog or Facebook Fan Page, contact me by e-mail or talk to me to discuss options like booking a session or doing a detox program.
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