The Science of The Science Behind Our Energy Levels: Why Feeling Tired is Sometimes Inevitable

The Science Behind Our Energy Levels: Why Feeling Tired is Sometimes Inevitable

Greetings! Welcome to In The Rising Podcast. My name is Bettina Brown, and this is the platform I have chosen to talk to you about living a life that's really in alignment with what your goals are, what your dreams are, and leaving behind those shame blame. Feelings that really get you nowhere and you're very well of what feelings those are.

And many of you may even be very well aware of who those people are in your lives that just have that about them. So I start out most of my podcast shows by saying I am not a licensed counselor, psychiatrist. Psychologist, but I am a healthcare professional and really love to wonder and figure out what makes us tick, what makes us, you know, just become healthier and what makes us go in the other direction?

Like what makes us. Not live the life that we really want to live. So I was really wondering what to talk about today, and perhaps you can pick it up in my voice, but I was just like, what? What am I gonna talk about? And I decided to talk about something that I tend to know very well, and that's the topic of fatigue.

What does fatigue have to do with. Living your best life and getting away from shame and blame and being, you know, in, in a positive self-awareness, self-esteem state. You know, I don't know where my own head was for a long time, but I really thought, you know, when you have it together, when you are emotionally, psychologically, intellectually, in a better place, I don't know why I thought that fatigue is something that you may not experience and.

I'm here to say that that is absolutely not true, and I had some wonderful conversations with other people who just, you know, they're like, I'm living, I'm living the life I wanna live. Everything is in place, but I am just exhausted. Now there are some people that will say, you only need three hours of sleep, and if you're in your theta waves, you will get into that REM sleep quicker, and you can use these mind hack tricks to get there.

And I, I totally, you know, believe that for some people that works. I know there are people that just do not need hours upon hours of rust. But what I've also discovered, Is even in those places when you get enough sleep, is your brain actually in a place where you get to recharge? And sometimes making those life changes really requires more rest.

Whether it's rest when you're awake. You're literally just sitting on the couch reading a book, having your legs up, getting a massage, or you're actually asleep. And there's a lot of science that says our brain is most active when we are asleep. So if you are in a phase of life where you are changing and migrating your thought process, you're changing your, your, your auto suggestion more or less, you know where you are going to really be in alignment with what you believe to be true.

Um, you're a lot less. I guess sensitive to what other people have to say about you, your circumstances, you're a lot less sensitive to the people who are saying, oh, everything's crazy. You know, nothing's gonna turn out well. You know, love is for the birds, just the people who are constantly negative as even at that, pushing that away and discriminating those sort of comments and those sort of people away from you.

Well, that still takes energy. And if you're in a place in your life where you are really altering your view on things, you know what you're most likely to have fatigue. And I wanted to really share that today because for one, I've been noticing myself, I've been having a little more fatigue, but I've also had so many conversations with other people that, you know, they're having a great, not the time of their lives, and yet they're still feeling some fatigue.

So well, what do we do about that? Do we just accept it and we think we're gonna be tired all the time, or fatigued all the time? And how is fatigue different than tired? Well, fatigue is that in your bones? Exhausted fatigue is when there's just nothing really left of you and you are operating on autopilot.

Um, and that's really where habits and autopilot comes from so that we don't develop fatigue all the time. But tired is just when you know you could use, you know, a little power nap, an hour or two of, of sleep or rest. Fatigue is when you really cannot. Get your body or even your brain to move. Like just the idea of thinking is too much.

Like the idea of changing something, um, in your life or redecorating or even making the bed, like the, the idea is the same as having to do a marathon that's fatigue, tired is, well, if I take a 15 minute nap, I can get up and, you know, knock all this stuff out. So is that kind of normal? And I don't know what all the scientists say.

I didn't even research this one, but I went with the scientist giving this podcast and I feel it is, I feel that fatigue is just as much of a vital sign as pain and sensations, um, such as taste and sight. I feel that fatigue is another little doorbell for you to recognize. To recognize and appreciate.

Because without that feeling of fatigue, we may not really know when to stop. When to really say, you know what, it's time to take a pause and readjust and perhaps reevaluate. And that's what all you know self-improvement and growing is. It's that process of self-evaluating and what you could do 10 years ago is maybe not what you can do now, but it gives you that opportunity to realize, because you could do it doesn't mean it serves you now.

You know, being able to multitask, which is really not something that is valuable. It's really doing one task at a time. Maybe you were able to really focus on two, three things very intently, but now you don't need to. Now you need to focus on one task intently and focus on that one thing intently every single day.

As opposed to 2, 3, 4, 5 things because that one task has more fruit to offer your life than those seven or eight or 10 things do. And another little trick with fatigue is to stop and pause and really take note and evaluate What are you really enjoying anymore? Because what we used to enjoy, whether it's the writing, the books, or um, even certain workout programs, you know, I believe exercise is important, but certain types of exercise, you know, maybe you're not in the mood.

To run 10 miles every day. Maybe now walking three miles every day does more for your joy and heart than those 10 miles do you, we get to evaluate not just what you're doing, but how you're doing it. Maybe you love to read, but you've spent so much time reading about personal growth and other things that now you wanna realize.

You just wanna read a good. Anne Rice book, or you wanna read a good mystery, you wanna read a good, just romantic story. Maybe what kind of input you're, you're putting in is what you need to change the body and the mind. They tend to know, they tend to know things that we may be pushing to the side pretty often and realizing that all of those markers are there.

Intentionally, you know, fatigue is talking to you. Your body's talking to you, and I think one of the greatest things about being self-aware and, and getting to a place where you acknowledge your humanness is recognizing that all the things that you felt before you were really focusing on getting more aware and, and having, and, and just recognizing your power, your worth, and how beautiful you are as a person.

That doesn't make you exempt from the human experience. And some of that experience does include just being exhausted and sometimes that exhaustion comes from external things. You know, when I'm doing this podcast, we are in 2020, you're a full of coronavirus and, change in situations. I've been employed, I've been unemployed, I've, known people who've passed away.

, from other, other circumstances, I've known people who've passed away from the virus. I've had to work in environments where I'm nervous, where you can feel the tension. You can almost cut it with a knife. You can feel people's fear, your coworkers, you can feel their fear as patience. And I think there is a point in time that just wears on a person.

And whether you are in healthcare or the grocery store or whatever, you know, things wear on you and that is a normal thing. And the effects of, you know, a lot of these external things also can wear on you. Just as many good things can also exhaust you. But just recognizing that's human, it's. Normal and allow yourself to take that rest.

Allow yourself to be in a place where you're going to just put a little more of that self-care into your life. A little more pausing to put your feet up a little more, massage, a little more hot chocolate, and the mornings to just enjoy that time and not get up and, you know, hit the ground. Running a little more time for yourself.

Well, thank you so much for sharing this time with me today, whether you're fatigued or not, and I really appreciate it because you know what time is something we don't get back. It is not a renewable resource, so I appreciate your time with me today. If this is a podcast you enjoy, I'd appreciate if you go ahead and reach out to me on one of my, social platforms or send me an email if you have a topic or question about something you'd love to hear.

Send me an email Bettina@intherising.com until next Tuesday. I will see you guys then, or hear you guys then, and until then, let's keep building one another!