Expressing Peace. Exhaustion. 94.
Answers to Exhaustion
Exhaustion happens. It happens physically. It happens mentally. It can even happen spiritually.
Physical exhaustion comes from over-extending our bodily energy and strength. It’s just wearing ourselves out. It comes from working, from working out, from running out of fuel.
Mental exhaustion comes from wrestling to solve a problem or racing to finish a project or juggling to organize tasks. It results from too much thinking, analyzing, studying.
Spiritual exhaustion comes from seeking, from discovering, and from embracing the Truth. We want so much to know and to fill ourselves with Truth it sometimes tires us out.
Exhaustion may be peaceful in itself as we’re unwilling and unable to do anything but recuperate. That is our being’s instinctively caring for Self.
However, exhaustion can bring stress–the stress from feeling helpless in the face of exhaustion. So, how can we draw more peace to ourselves, allowing the exhaustion to dissipate in time, allowing us to know peace as it does?
Sit outside. Allow the world to move around you, to be busy without you. Draw to your mind the difference between all that’s going on and your sitting still.
Hold a stone. Draw alongside the silence of stone/Until its calmness can claim you./Be excessively gentle with yourself. (John O’Donahue)
Be with water. A waterfall. A stream. A fountain. A rain shower. Or a recording of any one of these. Just listen.
Take a nap. Give up the battle to work (or play) through your exhaustion. Let exhaustion win; treat yourself to a nap. Without setting the alarm.
Enjoy praying. How you pray and what you pray are up to you. And really don’t matter as much as that you pray. Just allowing consciousness of spiritual connection to take over, to take attention away from the exhaustion. Just letting go…..
Fulfilling Spirit,
the energy that refuels us
is the Love and Joy and Good and Peace
you are
and we are made of.
The fatigue we bring on ourselves
is of our human doing.
Know our thanks that we can let go
of that exhaustion by accepting it
as our creation
and by knowing our exhaustion, too,
shall pass.
And know our thanks for the ways you teach
that allow us to still our minds,
rest our bodies,
and attend our hearts.
And know our thanks that you impart
to us the certainty our peace always returns.
And so it is. Amen. Amen.
Enjoy Peace. Express Peace.
In: Energy, Healing, Peacefulness, Prayer, Praying, Work · Tagged with: Joy, Love, Peace, Prayer, praying, spiritual simplicity
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