From Burn Out to Bliss Out

Is being over­whelmed a com­mon feel­ing for you? Are you burned out?  If so, why don’t you join me in a new com­mit­ment to change your burn out to a bliss out. 

This last year has been espe­cially over­whelm­ing for me, oh  hell, who am I kidding?  Most of my life has been filled with being over­whelmed.  It is def­i­nitely top on the list of my neg­a­tive chronic emotions. So this week  as my being over­whelmed turned into a total burn out / melt­down, I had to do some fac­ing up to these lit­tle pes­ter­ing thoughts that I let turn into mon­sters before being will­ing to shift them to a bet­ter feel­ing thought.  Below are four dif­fer­ent ideas I found in this process to help with this shift

1-  Time for me!

Of course, like always, every­thing shows up for me in my life at just the right time.  So last night I just hap­pened to watch the movie “The Shift” by Wayne Dyer http://www.dyermovie.com/.  I totally related to the mom who wants to do her art, but has taken care of every­one else for so long that she doesn’t even know who she is any­more.  At the end of the movie she decides to ded­i­cate some time for her­self and her tal­ents and lets her fam­ily take care of things more.  While watch­ing it I thought to myself yeah right!  like the fam­ily is going to take care of every­thing so that she can do her art. (one of my thoughts that could use some shifting) As this neg­a­tive thought came to the sur­face for me I decided that this is some­thing I really need to shift.  So the first part of my new com­mit­ment is to find some reg­u­lar time every week that is for me.  Time for me to enjoy some­thing that I like to do.  Even though I have no idea how I will do it or how I will get a babysit­ter, I am hav­ing faith.  The Uni­verse has deliv­ered so many won­der­ful things to my life, surely it can help me attract this. 

2– Lov­ing Myself

Another thing that hap­pened dur­ing my burn out this week was a talk that I had with the other Meta­phys­i­cal Mamas.  They pointed out to me that I was not being lov­ing to myself in this process.  If my daugh­ter was feel­ing the same over­whelm and burn out that I was, would I tell her that she knows bet­ter and to just stop it?  Or would I be under­stand­ing and lov­ing with her.  I real­ized how harsh I have been with myself and my situation. So the sec­ond part of my com­mit­ment is to begin to be more under­stand­ing and lov­ing with myself  just like I would treat a loved one if they were in the same situation. 

3- Tem­per Tantrums 

I have began to use a lit­tle tech­nique called a grown-up tem­per tantrum.  Some­thing a friend shared with me that sounded absolutely ridicu­lous, but is really quite help­ful.  A grown-up tem­per tantrum is just what it sounds like.  A way to let out anger and frus­tra­tion in a safe way.  If you are like me, you have a hard time express­ing anger or frus­tra­tion.  I have learned that some­times it needs to come out for me to move up the emo­tional scale. 

First of all I begin  begin by feel­ing how I feel and mak­ing peace with it instead of try­ing to keep it inside because I should be think­ing a happy thought.  Just giv­ing myself per­mis­sion to be angry can be very helpful. 

Sec­ond when I have some pri­vacy I go into my bed­room grab a pil­low and yell every­thing I want to say into it while punch­ing the bed at the same time.  The first time I did this I felt so silly that I could barely even do it, but after I began, to my sur­prise, every­thing came flood­ing out. When I was fin­ished,  I didn’t just feel better, I was empow­ered!  Who Knew?  Some­thing that seemed like the oppo­site of what I should do, actu­ally moved me up the emo­tional scale faster than any­thing else!  I don’t always do it full out. Sometimes I even have a lit­tle mini one when I find myself  with some privacy.  I was sur­prised at how help­ful these can be. 

4– Bet­ter Feel­ing Thoughts

And last of all I am com­mit­ting to spend­ing some time each day before I take action to get myself into a bet­ter frame of mind on the sub­jects that are over­whelm­ing me.  I found this youtube record­ing of Abra­ham which seems to sum it up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWBH3MNTlXc

So lets be eas­ier with our­selves and more lov­ing to our­selves.  I chal­lenge all of you who are also deal­ing with over­whel­ment to make this new com­mit­ment with me.  Let’s be done with our burn outs and give more focus to our bliss!

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