Burnout

We are asked to keep track of so many things in our lives that sometimes it literally all becomes too much for us to handle. It starts innocently enough – we feel tired and more irritable and we slowly lose track of our lives. And then, all of a sudden, panic kicks in and literally grips you tight and leaves you quite literally gasping for air. At that point, we will have been walking on eggshells for far too long.

The right help and focus is needed to help us ‘untangle’ our lives again. We use speech as well as touch to do this, making the ‘untangling’ and ‘slowing down’ processes a little easier. Our mind is not the only thing that has gone into lockdown – so has our body. We have mainly lost our sense of space. By allowing our mind to catch up through conversation and allowing our body to catch up through touch, it will become clear to us what has gone wrong. This will provide us with insights both on a mental and physical level. We will be able to see things clearly and relax our bodies once again. This will then allow us to recover the peace and space we need.

Burn out, the great danger!

It is like a war; we are losing one after the other around us. We don’t die, but we feel knocked down. This phenomena is called burn-out. Not being able to move en go on. We literally can not get up to start the day. We are constantly tired, we hardly sleep. We could cry all day, we often have horrible headaches and a constant feel of guild. This scene repeats itself over and over again. Driven by perfection we are not at all able or insufficiently able to listen to the signals our body gives us. We feel tired, exhausted even, but we keep going. Quitting is for losers is our motto. Even if we can’t go on, we still go on. Until one morning we can’t get up. And we have to stay home. Almost always there are all sorts of reasons behind it, like difficult relationships and pressure from work that make our life hard. These are only indirect causes as a result of which we are in danger of falling out. The real cause is our perfectionism. Because of this we can no longer deal in a balanced way with the pressure we experience. We can no longer let go and therefore no longer relax. And eventually, sometimes quickly, sometimes after years, we fall.