Overcome Burnout

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What is `burnout'? It is the exhaustion produced from continuous and disproportionate strenuous work in any field. Burnout occurs when one is driven by compulsion to achieve what you are expected to achieve. You compete with yourself or with others to compensate for what you believe is lacking in your life.The main reason for burnout is overspending of energy without learning to renew it on a daily basis. This phenomenon is increasing by the day in every field of life, because our goals are set by others rather than by our own judgement of what we truly need. Again, these goals are becoming more difficult to attain while many of us are not aware how to recharge ourselves.The burnout process is reversible. The first step is to pause, review the direction of what you are doing to your body and mind and check whether you are achieving finally what you want to. Cultivate the attitude to begin to slow down and learn to relax. That means to be available to your own self in terms of free time and to be available for certain practices that help you get in touch with your inner core.
If we compare our body-mind with a car, we can understand the proposal easily . The car runs on a battery subject to two processes: operating the car functions and getting continuously recharged from within the car. If there is no recharging, the battery burns itself out. It is important to learn how to remain joyful in everything we do as joyfulness in life is the antidote to burnout.