How To Be At Peace If You Are Feeling Emotionally Tired Today
Things happen from time to time. Therefore, the ability to cope with ourselves is important for our mental recovery.
To begin with, I am referring to emotional fatigue in this story. Fatigue from exercise does not linger. When we feel drained emotionally, our state of mind affects how we engage with others and think about issues over a long period.
How should I describe it?
It is like the nagging pain after a needle prick. The acute pain from the needle lasts for a fraction of a second. The nagging goes on for minutes.
Emotional fatigue is like that nagging pain. The event is long over. However, we are still suffering from it many days later.
Many of us experience this. I am willing to guess that people-related issues are usually the trigger.
It happens because we are actors in a system of co-dependence. Buyers, sellers, and market-makers have to exist for transactions to materialize.
It takes a market.
I often imagine how things would be if I operated machines instead of getting people to do something. Would I miss getting people to do something? Would those machines ever talk back?
As far as my imagination goes, I might try to use other machines that do not talk back to me, if there is such a choice. By and large, giant operating machines do not shoot arrows at my back in the pantry.
Okay, it could be possible in an Artificial-Intelligence driven era. That future is not our present moment.
The same thing can happen at home. I am one of the rare few who do not get energy from home. That is because: -
- My parents and I sit on two separate ends of a political ideology. I am not a fan of the Left.
- I think that paying fewer taxes legally is smart. They believe that paying more taxes is a moral duty of every law-abiding citizen.
- I prefer to work on my businesses. They keep asking when I will finally be on a high-paying job.
- They want to stay in a spacious house. I do not want to bear that mortgage.
The list goes on. Squabbles over the dining table are a daily event. Over time, I have learned to keep my mouth shut.
Still, being on the receiving end in the office and at work can be mentally draining. We have to find ways to discharge every ounce of emotional fatigue accumulated throughout the week.
I have two go-to methods.
Method 1: Disappear, Isolate.
For one, I disappear to a place where there are fewer humans. It is contextual. I tend to have issues interacting with other people, and it frustrates me having to align or convince.
I have an inherent desperate need to bring the focus back to myself.
Nature reserve, cafes at an isolated corner, and swimming pools, work best for me.
I love the swimming pool. I get to work out, and no one can bark into my ears telling me anything they want to say, and I do not want to hear. All I hear is the sounds of water and my self-talk.
Reading does the trick as well. I can disappear into a swaying stack of books in the library. Bemusing stares do not bother me as much as the author’s mindshare.
Method 2: Sleep. Sleep More. Sleep A Lot More.
I forgot who said sleeping is our superpower. That person is a freaking genius.
A night of good sleep is not a given. There are days we get them. Most of the time, we do not.
If we are natural worrywarts, getting a night of good sleep is an elusive idea. If there is a looming deadline in the morning, I doubt we sleep well as excessive worries have plagued our minds.
Or when we have confrontational family members in the same household who cannot wait to prove us wrong/prove themselves right.
We have to FIND a good sleep.
For me, I sleep the best when I am on a business trip. It might sound weird, but it is true.
That is because family members affect me more than work deadlines.
When I am away, I get to run my schedule, and I can live within my skin. There is no one to bicker with incessantly.
For that reason, having no one present within the same four walls bestows on me, an unprecedented level of mental peace.
I tend to sleep like a baby with I am working overseas.
I would also arrange for occasional staycation-with-self over weekends.
I feel at ease, and most importantly, I sleep better there.
My Take On Achieving Mental Health.
Let me summarize it in two sentences.
We need to be the person we are.
We need to find that environment that allows us to be who we are.
In a human society predicated on co-dependence, the greater good takes priority over self.
It happens more often than we would like, and it can cause a build-up of emotional fatigue over time.
We need to learn to release the emotional fatigue nested in our head and heart.
You might find my methods of isolation and seeking quality sleep helpful if you are an introvert.
Might it work for an extrovert too? I do not have any answers for that.
It might if you give it a try and prove so to yourself.
Be Blessed With Inner Peace!
Aldric
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