Fatigue – the consequence of civilization?
Exerpt from ebook “52 Quotes to live by”
„Face death every evening, so that you can be reborn in the morning…“
Fatigue – the consequence of civilization?
Look at modern man – feeling tired has almost become a fashion. It’s like an official statement that shows you are normal, like a sign that proves that you follow an insane rhythm in life step by step. Modern people, working from dawn till dusk in being relevant to all, feel very tired and complain about fatigue. A shroud of fatigue like a dense mist covers and lies on more and more people in the world…
People are trying to escape from the rat race and blindly following the illusion that a big amount of money means happiness. We’ll talk about this incorrect illusion in other parts of the book. Now let’s pay attention to fatigue and its real consequences. Doctors have even developed a new term for this phenomenon – Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. A survey of general practitioners shows that as much as 55% of their patients complain about this. Naturally, a question arises – why do we get so tired and from what?
Causes of fatigue
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome has various causes. The first is the fast pace of life and its growing requirements. The second is…
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The worst of it is that a person lying on a beach can feel constant tension in their head, caused by many unfinished tasks and other factors. But we only need so little. In growing up, many of us have lost the wonderful ability of just letting things go that we had in our childhood.
Your mind is never on holiday
Observe yourself in the evening before falling asleep – what a sea of unfinished tasks and thoughts live in your head. If due to this hive of thoughts, caused by circumstances, you fall asleep in a troubled state of mind, it will lead to a troubled night of sleep. Naturally, a person feels tired after not getting enough sleep. This has no end – we’re going around and around like dogs chasing our tails.
Each of us has a particular amount of potential energy. Some have more, others have less, but we won’t talk about it in this part of the book. Every thought or action we make requires a certain amount of energy. It’s like a car – with a certain amount of fuel it can drive a certain distance. It’s the same thing with people. All your thoughts require some amount of energy, and here it’s worth mentioning that mental work leads to fatigue faster than physical work. Of course, it’s easier to recognize cases of physical fatigue, because the body simply gets tired, while in cases of mental work, the human mind is worn down.
Each of us should also delve deeper into our internal world. We should clearly recognize what our internal energy is being used for. Maybe it is not being used for things you are presently doing, but instead, it is focused on things that have already been done, or should be done. Plus, this work doesn’t end after working hours or while on holiday. In our minds, we constantly feel and think about various desires, motives and so on, and while we may not always be aware of them consciously, they are with us all the time.
Ways of solving the problem of constant fatigue
Psychological tiredness causes constant stress. The most popular way of solving an internal conflict is to set it aside consciously or unconsciously. Because we don’t know what our behavior should be, we try to put the problem far away from us as an irrelevant thing. Sometimes we start to drink. It helps us forget for a time, but later it comes back with double force. The problem is not solved yet, and the body now has a hangover. Attempting to hide internal confusion requires a lot of energy. Even if you think you have managed to forget one or another problem, fatigue can be a symptom showing that that skeleton in your closet hasn’t come out into the light of day yet. You will have to work on it, or it will come out by itself, and this usually happens in a disturbing fashion.
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So when going to sleep every evening, let it all go – like it would be your last day on Earth. Leave the problem solving for your unconscious internal mind. It knows all the answers, but you will have to trust it, and ask it questions without mental tension. Many different cultures have a saying – “morning is wiser than evening”. Only a clean mind can be reborn every morning. Develop the art of letting go, and you won’t meet any obstacles on your Way.
Exerpt from ebook “52 Quotes to live by”
Tension generates violence
Everything what belongs to you comes easy and with joy...
Tension generates violence
Human way is hard enough, when consciousness is put in the shade with goals. While we haven’t achieved, we have a possibility. After achievement we also have a possibility. Achieving something, we shrivel up more and more. It pollutes our consciousness. Problems won't be solved if we will increase speed. Jumping to uncertainty requires us to throw off all our entity and knowledge. More than one state and human will fall down from increasing achievement speed.
Then you increase speed, tension grows. Tension generates violence. Violence brings suffering. As a consequence, any alive organism becomes ill. It seems that human is created in such a way, and that constant achievement is the real movement. Unfortunately, it's the straightest way to suffering.
Everything what belongs to you comes easy and with joy. Other things probably don't belong to you. When achieving it in violence, you only harm yourself.
Inner potential and desires
Remember rare life situations, when everything used to work by itself, like without efforts. It was enough to think that you desire something, and it used to become true. You only were surprised, how it all happened. It's not a secret actually. Your desire became one with inner potential.
An adult, raising a weight of ten kilos, doesn't need to make big efforts. A hundred isn't limit to trained person. As body muscles, inner potential also can be increased. But here you should remember, that it is done by internal, not by outer means. Each part has its own means.
Watching people from the side, every time I make a conclusion, that many things are limited by our senses and intellectual frame. The biggest problem is that when we think that we want something, it's often difficult to differentiate, which desires are ours, and which are imposed by society and environment. It's very hard to separate desires, created by egoism…
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Water is the most yielding substance, but no one has won over it yet…
Being yielding is an advantage
Bowing to something is in one or other way mentioned by many religions. One of well-known lessons tought by Christ says – “if someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also“. But show me a christian, faithfully following such a precept. The interpretation of being yielding is strained in our society. Being yielding actually is not self-effacement or humility in the name of some profit in uncertain kingdom of God. Devotees understand it like wordless acceptance of injustice, unconcern, common problems of mankind.
Christians took a formula of responding to an aggressor without violence, and are trying to go along the life way bowing, in easy manner, not getting to anybody other’s road, stopping short at praying. Although try to step onto their callus, and the imaginary bowing will be gone. However, this belongs to another topic. And above all, church teachers and wise people in this case talk about special quality. Quality, which helps to survive and win without fighting.
Water doesn’t fight, but it always wins
Problems in our society begin from childhood, and grow in one line with development of a person. Since early years we are being tought to win and achieve what we want, with any price. But show me home, where you can learn to be yielding. Women are honoured with yielding character by nature. Observe them, and you will learn many good things. Feminine power is hidden exactly in their ability to be yielding. It can seem that a woman descends to her husband and even humbles. But the point is in the result. In such a manner she gets everything what she seeks. I call this Water Character. So watch water – it doesn’t face any obstacles in its way. When water encounters a stone, it simply flows around, not hitting hindrance until goal achievement. Water doesn’t fight, but so it wins.
Egoism is the greatest enemy to bowing
What will you choose?
It is said that the more humans get older, the wiser they become. Observe the elders – majority of them will own being yielding as a quality. Only after going along great way of life, in which we experience continual losing, humiliation, and absolute failure of self-confidence, we try to realize being yielding as a little bit more than desperate prostration.
To get totally free from disgust to the idea of bowing, and understand it as a way to the real human freedom, to find strength in seeking bowing as a quality, we need to conquer ourselves and change personal values at first. You will need much time for all this. Egoism and old habits won’t capitulate easily. You will want to riot in each step. Until finally and not hiding from yourself, you will confess that it’s relevant to choose in the situations of life – I can proudly continue hitting the wall, or I can bow to it and adapt.
I ensure – when you turn bowing into your quality, you will come much more further. Start from small steps. As you learned to walk in childhood, learn being yielding today. First victories will bring joy, which will work as a stimulus to move on. And the miracles will begin after that. What are they – you will know later. Be attentive and observe yourself.
I reveal you one more secret – looking at circle of communicating people, you should notice that basically each one is talking to himself. He who can hear his friend, is the winner in such a situation. With an intention of achieving it, we must reduce our significance till zero. After that you should do everything to strengthen the significance of others. When you follow this principle, people will notice that you don’t cause any danger. As a consequence, they will become more honest with you. Paradoxically, your significance in their eyes will only grow…
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By Zett Why
The supply of inspirational quotes are inexhaustible. The inspirational words are here, not only to inspire, but most importantly, to encourage change. When you read inspirational quotes, you would often feel a sense of renewed energy and that urge to improve your current state. We can get inspiration not only from the words of famous and successful people, but also from the everyday talks we have, conversations we overhear, or even a surprising remark from a nine year-old. Inspiration may come from anywhere. It is simply a matter of paying a little attention and putting those thoughts into action.
The following are some of the greatest inspirational quotes to live by:
1. "Don't let what you can't do stop you from what you can do." (John Wooden)
Sure, there's a lot of things you feel you can't do. The next best thing is to learn. Learning and trying something new is a big step into conquering the "can'ts" in your list.
2. "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." (Confucius)
Failures may be failures but they also present opportunities for growth. When we fail, we try to understand what we did wrong. By doing so, we learn, and we improve. It is the experiences of rising from failures that creates successful people.
3. "If you are going through hell, keep going." (Winston Churchill)
As they say, if you're already at the bottom, there is no where else to go but up. The situation you are in now won't last forever. Keep living until you attain your greatest happiness.
4. "To Live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all." (Oscar Wilde)
Many people are merely empty bodies walking around the world, not really experiencing life. Remember not to get trapped by the routines of everyday life. Take time to break off from your routine and do something you really, really want for a change.
5. "If you want to be happy, be." (Leo Tolstoy)
If you are sad right now, it is always your choice to be happy. It is as simple as that.
6. "We must be the change we want to see." (Gandhi)
This world is far from being perfect. If you want things to improve, start with yourself. It is you that you have a hundred percent control over. You might as well use that power to change the things that you can.