If you don't have an ample supply of energy, you are temporarily out of tune with the natural rhythms of your body and emotions. Regaining natural attunement is frequently difficult because cultural factors reinforce your lack of inner harmony.
One of the greatest cultural reinforcers of chronic fatigue is pressure toward excessive excitement. In fact, your problem may be that you are caught on what we call the excitement treadmill, and your body is now telling you to stop the punishment.
Excitement is essential to the full enjoyment of living. A sports event, a love affair, a good book, or a great idea all generate high excitement. But excitement makes intense demands on your physical, emotional, and spiritual resources. And these demands mean stress, which depletes your energy reserves.
The pressure toward excitement in our culture had become so intense that the need for recuperation between periods of excitement has been forgotten.
Many people go from a frenzied work environment to a hectic rush hour, only to arrive home and turn on an exciting TV program. Weekends are a time for sports, parties, movies and TV.
The result is a gradual erosion of bodily resources, a process which in turn increases your need for excitement to avoid feeling let down and exhausted.
To keep yourself feeling "up", you've got to stay on the excitement treadmill. Eventually your system says "Enough," and you hit a period of chronic fatigue. If you then follow the cultural input that says "it's OK to take pills to cope," you may be in real trouble. To solve your energy problem and live a long, healthy life, you must learn to turn off this cultural bombardment and become attuned to your own needs and rhythms.
Another major cultural factor behind chronic fatigue is boring work and frustrating work environments. Boring, distasteful work causes psychological inertia, which blocks your natural flow of energy. It takes courage to change a job, and if your work has brought on chronic fatigue, courage is usually in short supply.
The result is a gradual erosion of bodily resources, a process which in turn increases your need for excitement to avoid feeling let down and exhausted.
To keep yourself feeling "up", you've got to stay on the excitement treadmill. Eventually your system says "Enough," and you hit a period of chronic fatigue. If you then follow the cultural input that says "it's OK to take pills to cope," you may be in real trouble. To solve your energy problem and live a long, healthy life, you must learn to turn off this cultural bombardment and become attuned to your own needs and rhythms.
Another major cultural factor behind chronic fatigue is boring work and frustrating work environments. Boring, distasteful work causes psychological inertia, which blocks your natural flow of energy. It takes courage to change a job, and if your work has brought on chronic fatigue, courage is usually in short supply.
If the cause of your fatigue problem has a major social component, solving it won't be easy. However, it can be done.
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