We have all heard of burnout, chronic stress, exhaustion and the various syndromes associated with prolonged exposure to stressors.
Stress is how we respond to a stressor, which is the precursor to the response in us. It is necessary for any evolution. There needs to be a certain amount of stress to give enough motion to a static position. Without stress we lay dormant. With too much stress we become redundant. Either way, our body begins to waste, resulting in more stress, muscle weakness, and a general loss of zeal and enthusiasm to live a full life. One has checked out of life, resigned to this feeling of constant malaise.
A stressor is perceived through the senses. Turn the senses in, and memory begins to act as a trigger to initiate stress. For how long though, when you turn your senses inward, can this process continue? If the sensory stimulus is absent, can we then work at reducing the impact of the memory? If anything, all that is hardwired within our subconscious, unseen and unheard parts of us, will begin to surface without the interference of external stimuli.
This is what happens when we meditate. There might be only seconds worth of blank canvas time, because mostly one is working through what is still sitting underneath the surface. The more you scratch, the more we find. As we sit in that stance of meditation, we keep creating more space. As we do this, we become all the more sensitive to external stimuli, so that when we emerge out of our cocoon, we feel bombarded by an onslaught of energy.
We become sitting ducks, always exposed, living in utmost vulnerability and raw. In this state we can experience the heights of expanded consciousness and the lows of contracted consciousness. How we respond to either will depend not only on how strong our nervous systems are, but on a third element, which is to awaken to the body behind the experience of this body. Can we call it another plane of existence, with another dimension of consciousness and how experience, including energy, is perceived? It gives us the gap between the experience and the effect of the same within us.
It feels like a stepping back or away from an experience and merely watching yourself have that experience without being affected. You are affected at the gross physical level, but not at the subtle or causal level. So how do you get out of feeling, or connecting with, the lethargy, the fatigue, the burnout that the body is very much feeling, which you can feel even though disengaged from it? Can you reverse the fatigue? Must you?
Fatigue is a natural call for rest and recovery when the body needs it. We can ignore it, work with it, or suppress it using stimulants, drugs and other coping mechanisms.
A spiritual awakening is a paradigm shift of consciousness into pure consciousness, or at least a stepping stone into that. With it can come a lot of fatigue from the internal baggage we carry in the memory bank, and all the while we become ever so exposed to external energy too. We are always and constantly vulnerable. Tools that work with the senses won’t cut it. That’s why any tool that soothes the senses will only ever be temporary, as opposed to a permanent fix. A sensory system cannot be the answer to limbic regulation.
The solution to stress by sensory overload is extra sensory input.
This is where quantum healing modalities come into play. You have got to bypass, for a moment, this present body and all its trimmings, to an alternate reality, like an out of body experience but from where you already are, without having to physically travel.
Sensory breaks are temporary measures, nevertheless effective in the short term. But what about those of us who can never truly have a sensory break, even without external stimuli? Perhaps some of us are more active in our unconscious dimension than in the physical, making rest for the body almost impossible. It is only when a perception beyond the sensory becomes fully integrated within us that there can be a shift allowing the physical body to become energised.
How does one stop feeling so exposed and vulnerable when constantly bombarded with stressors? Is it a pure stressor or a trigger? Are new triggers being created?
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Spiritual guidance, not medical advice. If you are struggling, please also speak to a professional.