A reminder that it’s often the body that isn’t tired—it’s the soul, mind, or our hearts.  It’s totally Physical tiredness is normal and something we all experience.  Working the way we do, living the lives we do, stretching ourselves in as many directions as we do, physical exhaustion is a natural result.  I’m not saying that’s the natural way to live, but if we choose to live in that manner, the body is going to wear out and tire.  Then the other side is our natural rhythms of wake and sleep.  But what happens when we get enough rest, we’ve taken that break, or we’ve had that moment of peace and we still feel tired?  That’s something else telling us there’s more.  That’s when we know there is a different type of work to do. 

I fully believe in signs from the universe and that those signs speak through us, through our bodies as much as they speak through outside signs and sources.  So when we are in the dregs of something that we can’t get out of even after we’ve addressed the physical, it’s time to look at what’s really going on.  How do we address soul/mind/heart tired?  We stop.  We look at what we’ve been doing and examine how we’ve disconnected.  Disconnect happens in surprising, often quiet ways, sometimes before we even know what’s happened.  It can be a disconnect from ourselves, from what we want, from our values, from our priorities, or even from doing something we love.  All of those things are energy vampires and deplete us from a much deeper level than just the body. 

Restoring that connection to soul/body/heart is simple but not always easy (we spoke about that relatively recently).  It requires letting go of the constant need to do and harnessing the value of listening.  When I feel icky feelings, I have a tendency to either push into hyperdrive and start doing as much as I can, or I collapse under the weight—I know I’m not alone in these reactions.  This is a habit we need to catch as soon as we start to feel these feelings.  We need to train ourselves to understand what we are feeling and get down to the trigger.  The work itself feels tiring because we’ve been in survival, fight, or just-getting-by mode for so long.  When we are able to release those emotions and feel a measure of safety, our body will be tired—but until we do the work, the drain keeps going.