Feeling drained

Not feeling energetic, what's that about? You still get the same input and impulses as before from your environment, however, now the drive, energy or power to react to it the way you used to, is gone. Your personality is not 'into it' for the moment, you cannot see what it could bring you anyway or how it could inspire you. The way this feeling may express itself will vary, although in general you will find it is a mix of a mental state of awareness and a drained, tired, low-energetic feeling in your body. Now why would your personality make such a choice?

In the course of weeks and months, your personality is constantly busy maintaining itself, prove it is true, and strengthen it. This requires a lot of energy. As long as everything goes well, there is no problem. As long as your personality can label the majority of the outcome as 'good' or 'pleasant, he will be able to recharge every now and then. However, when there is an underlying tendency of unpleasantness, then a period covering several months can be a real extinction battle, where one not too pleasant situation is followed by a really unpleasant one. And its effects are about to be experienced sooner or later, since these are not the kind of situations through which your personality can recharge itself.

Especially when there is the prospect of a period of time in which it is assumed that your personality will be in charge again, or at least be free from unpleasant impulses, and is likely to expect more pleasant experiences which will be initiated by himself - for example when you go on a vacation, or in a new job - this can become an even more profound experience. Since the difference between your present situation and the one to come becomes more and more clear when the "pleasant one" comes nearer, your enthusiasm to try to make something of the present period, decreases. Be not deceived, however, this is only a more profound expression of what has been going on for quite some time already.

In fact, feeling drained is a great way to recognize the principles of your personality, since even your personality is already admitting that things are not as great as he usually lets you to believe, and even he himself does not feel like putting energy in trying to make things better. The choice for a low-energy reaction does have some advantages to your personality: when you do not feel energetic, it cannot be expected from you that you make things work as before, and everything that you do now should be considered a bonus.

It is quite common to have feelings like this after e.g. your vacation as well, because now the difference between the perceived limitations in your working situation and what seems to be freedom to your personality, is even more clear. Often enough, however, the daily activities will usurp so much of your attention, that you find yourself in the old and familiar treadmill before you know it.

So: feeling drained is a great signal that your personality is quite controlling in a certain area of your life and experiences. Use a period of low-energy in a new way for a change: become aware of and do accept this is a personality choice for a certain reaction. Do not fight this decision, nor try to alter it or get rid of it. Use this period of time to become aware of the principles of your personality in this particular situation. This should partly be more easy than usual, since your personality itself has already admitted that things are not as great as they should be and that he cannot make it work for you, so you need not deal with distractions like that this time.

Vagueness is a great help to the grip of your personality in any situation, so gently yet firmly find out what the ideas are your personality upholds that lead to this low-energy choice. Remember that 'nice' and 'not nice' are labels only, resulting from your personality interpreting a certain situation. And once you have become aware of a layer of the problem, remind yourself: "I do not know what this really means. I now choose to invite my inner Self to have me experience this situation in a new way."

What may be of help here, is to bring the focus of your attention into the here-and-now, forgetting that there may be a future situation with different experiences. Whatever the feeling your personality has chosen to come up with, you experience it NOW. When you no longer drag the past or the future along with it, you simply have to deal with the input of the moment itself alone and the choice you are making there NOW: personality or inner Self. Feeling drowned is a situation that is likely to have a great deal of dragging this past and future into the present situation, so you might want to practice this focusing on the present quite a lot.