The current issue of Focus features this cartoon: A man is sitting at a bar and the barkeeper asks: "Do you want to pay?". The man then says "I'm afraid that I can't.." and opens his wallet to show the angry barman a small black puff of smoke emerging – "Burnout..." he adds.
The cartoon shows us how relevant the topic of burnout is nowadays. Among mentally gifted and highly sensitive people, it generally develops through under-stimulation and/or over-stimulation.
But the cartoon also shows – probably unintentionally – the connection between burnout and money.
Having burnout is no excuse for being skint, but it can certainly be the trigger. Because burnout also inevitably brings a person to the question "What do I want in life?", and the answer often leads people to a new start professionally, which also brings with it financial limitations.
The situation is even more intense for self-employed people because burnout always results in an immediate massive drop in earnings for them, adding fear for their own existence into the equation, which only serves to intensify the burnout symptoms. A vicious circle.
So for many, burnout is a careful balancing act between recovery, changes and financial survival. In which areas can I push myself? How can I deal with the intensive stimuli better? And how can I integrate these measures into my professional, private and financial life?
The key is to find the happy medium, which reopens the path to your inner home and at the same time provides enough scope to change old structures. An investment for life!
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Samstag, 14. Mai 2011
Mittwoch, 11. Mai 2011
Pleading to be alone
Even as a child, I always loved being alone. Nowadays that I know about my highly sensitive nature, I realise that these times alone were and still are essential for the survival of my mental state.
First of all, it is important to recognise the difference between being alone and loneliness. You can feel lonely at a party full of people. But being alone really means being alone.
Being alone is often called "seclusion" which suggests that the state of being together with others is normal and that being alone is in fact more of an exception.
People are of course social beings but nowadays there is almost a pressure to be together with others. It is seen as somewhat uncool to be alone or to want to be alone. After a day of dealing with people at work, many use the TV, radio and internet to come into contact with others at home.
Don't get me wrong, I use this media too, even quite extensively at times. But if they are only used as distraction to ensure that we don't have the feeling of being alone out of fear for who we might meet in that solitary place, we lose a piece of our identity – the feeling of who we are. After all, you are much more than just the colleague of... or the friend of... You are you!
And I would strongly urge you to do the following: Enjoy yourself alone!
First of all, it is important to recognise the difference between being alone and loneliness. You can feel lonely at a party full of people. But being alone really means being alone.
Being alone is often called "seclusion" which suggests that the state of being together with others is normal and that being alone is in fact more of an exception.
People are of course social beings but nowadays there is almost a pressure to be together with others. It is seen as somewhat uncool to be alone or to want to be alone. After a day of dealing with people at work, many use the TV, radio and internet to come into contact with others at home.
Don't get me wrong, I use this media too, even quite extensively at times. But if they are only used as distraction to ensure that we don't have the feeling of being alone out of fear for who we might meet in that solitary place, we lose a piece of our identity – the feeling of who we are. After all, you are much more than just the colleague of... or the friend of... You are you!
And I would strongly urge you to do the following: Enjoy yourself alone!
Lie for life
A study by the University of Virginia recently revealed that academics tell more lies than other people. Why? Because of their superior ability to lie. Lying believably requires a great deal of intelligence and capacity for abstract thought, not to mention a healthy doubt for the beatific nature of truthfulness. (Source: Süddeutsche Zeitung 26/27.02.11)
For me, this applies for both huge complex lies and little white lies that keep social life ticking over.
However, this extract got me thinking whether mentally gifted and highly sensitive people are not actually forced to lie more often in our society, or at least not to tell the truth, in order to be understood by others?
Is this not about downsizing your own truth into generally understandable words and thought patterns?
Lying is in this case simply a tool used to make life easier, providing more time for the truly relevant things – an appropriate tool, don't you think?
For me, this applies for both huge complex lies and little white lies that keep social life ticking over.
However, this extract got me thinking whether mentally gifted and highly sensitive people are not actually forced to lie more often in our society, or at least not to tell the truth, in order to be understood by others?
Is this not about downsizing your own truth into generally understandable words and thought patterns?
Lying is in this case simply a tool used to make life easier, providing more time for the truly relevant things – an appropriate tool, don't you think?
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