Have you been experiencing some challenging times of late? Have you found yourself nudged outside of your comfort zone, either through internal or external experiences? Do these experiences feel more extreme than previous years?
If you can relate to this, you are not alone.
I, for one, experienced burnout this year and am still regaining ground and rebuilding my energy levels. Burnout often occurs as the result of extra loading, over a prolonged period of time. It may sneak up on you slowly, or slam on the handbrake quickly, stopping you in your tracks. Either way, you are giving out more energy than you are receiving. The importance here, is to understand it for what it is, and to reframe your life for a period of time to recover.
Extra loading can present as taking on extra responsibility, spreading yourself too thin by juggling many things at once, managing the expectations of others, as well as your own expectations.
Placing the needs of others before those of your own is often a common factor.
These are all natural human processes, so how can you support yourself if these processes become unbalanced?
Supporting your energy levels, supporting your light
When your energy or light is low, it can be difficult to articulate why you feel the way you do and how to support yourself. One or more of the following may resonate or provide a fresh perspective to support you on your journey.
- Granting yourself space to breathe and regroup mentally, emotionally, physically and/or spiritually, is vital to maintain your energy levels.
- Reframing how, when and with whom you spend your energy, is important. Place priority towards joyful and/or calm people and spaces rather than taxing or draining ones. Your needs may shift from moment to moment or day to day, therefore regular assessment may be necessary.
- Personal boundaries may need reviewing. You may either be open and actively supporting / socialising with people or, insular and retreat from people whenever necessary. Most people are a blend of both; however, it is very common to find yourself sitting at one extreme or another at some time in your life. Personal boundaries help you to manage your wellbeing during various situations, yet they can block people out (both deliberately and accidentally) or reveal your trusting side and allow people in without question. This may need to be reviewed to support your mental, emotional, physical, or even spiritual wellbeing for a period of time.
- If you are empathic, then assess how you feel energetically when around certain people’s emotions and energies. Empaths get drained quickly from others that ‘need’ their help. They can also charge themselves up around happy people.
- Let go of what you cannot control and focus on what you can.
- If you need support from family, friends, or professionals, don’t be afraid to ask, seek it out.
- Pace yourself, if it doesn’t need to be done today, it can wait until tomorrow.
- Prioritize some ‘you’ time. What you choose to do with this time may vary depending on how you feel on any given day. Do you want to socialise, or not? Do you feel like engaging in a hobby, walking, meditating, playing music, crying, watching a movie, writing, or doing nothing maybe? The choice is yours. The first step to understanding who you are, is understanding what you need.
- Have an end goal to assist your recovery or reprioritising. Going through the motions without an end goal can also create energy drain. Inspiring options to be considered are improved health, strengthening your spiritual connection, having more energy to help others, self-improvement, creating a happier, fulfilling life moving forward.
Compassion
It is also important to be compassionate with yourself when making these adjustments towards your wellbeing. It is very common to have feelings of guilt, frustration, embarrassment, weakness, and vulnerability arise when your energy levels are low. These feelings, when left unchecked, can exacerbate personal energy drain, and lower your vibration even further delaying the recovery process.
Yet, during this process another factor occurs that is not as well known…our spiritual connection weakens.
Spiritual Connection
Although it never severs, the link with our Higher Power lowers through a drop in our vibration. This in turn creates interruptions to our intuition and a feeling of aloneness and isolation for some. Many people feel they have lost their connection to spirit/Divine as a result. Please let me reassure you, you have not. The important factor here is to reestablish your vibration (and your connectedness) by rebuilding your energy levels through rebalancing your life.
Through my work of linking with Archangel Michael, I noticed during this period of low energy, that it took more of my energy to maintain an established connection, and that as I recover, I now have more energy left for me. It is a wonderful teaching to understand and apply moving forward.
As we are spiritual beings experiencing an earthly existence, we are learning to maintain our spiritual light in our earthly bodies. The vibrations differ significantly between our light body and our physical body, and, we haven’t arrived with a manual to follow so we need to figure it out as we go.
Some people think that shining your light equates to being or becoming successful, popular, seen. For some it does, yet for others it represents being true to oneself, authentic, more spiritually aligned with their beliefs and actions.
Whatever it means for you, remember you are already the embodiment of light itself, and how you allow that light to flow into the world will be of your choice.
So, you can see how important it is to honour your inner light and energy levels to achieve a sense of wellbeing and connectedness- to yourself, to others and to Source.
As everyone’s spiritual awakening journeys are unique to them and their lives, you may experience further growth phases that you desire more understanding on.
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Until next month, take care,
Glenys x