Energy Mastery in Burnout Culture
How do we master our energy and prevent burnout (both in our day-to-day and in our sexuality) in a society obsessed with the never-ending grind???
During this quarantine time, it’s become increasingly loud to me that our culture does not truly value and practice renewal and rejuvenation. Hyper-focused on “progress” and getting shit done, our lifestyles push millions of us into chronic exhaustion, illness, and burnout—myself included.
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When we look to nature, we see the crucial importance of rest and renewal, through the existence of night time darkness giving way for sleep and internal reflection, and winter lending itself to gestation, rest, and the breaking down of dying plant matter to restore and renew the soils for a fertile spring.
If we are exercising intelligently, we know that we actually progress FASTER when we TAKE BREAKS to rebuild and repair our muscle tissue—otherwise we just keep tearing it and it doesn’t have a chance to grow stronger, similarly to if you were to keep tearing a scab as it’s trying to heal.
Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.
When we go hard on caffeine, we’re kicking down the doors of our adrenals and juicing them for everything they’ve got. We’re talking AT them, demanding of them, depleting them for instant gratification.
It’s a temporary fix with long-term damage, like many of the band-aid “solutions” we slap onto problems, rather than dealing with the root cause.
This undoubtedly eventually leads to s exual depletion as well, since our life force/qi is intimately interwoven with our s exual vitality.
When we work with breath, self-cultivation, and jing retrieval practices, such as Qi Gong, and Kundalini yoga, we are coaxing our sexual energy and vitality awake—gently, lovingly, consensually, and in reverence.
We are honoring it, waking it up like a sweet, sleeping child, rather than abruptly storming in and yelling at it to wake up and get to work.
The result is true nourishment and vitality rooted in deep body awareness, rather than depleting our reserves for a quick fix.
It’s the difference between plowing into a yoni that isn’t ready, and waiting for her to awaken, blossom, and INVITE penetration through her magnetic yin field.
True yang must come from true yin, so this yang, directive energy of action must be harvested from yin: tuning in with our bodies, listening, entering a conversation, a dialogue, with our most fundamental essence.
We must give it what it needs, rather than just taking what we want, establishing a mutually beneficial relationship. Just like how all healthy relationships work.
This is true nourishment, true attunement, true honoring and communication with our bodies and their genius, innate wisdom they operate from.
It requires finesse, patience, and the ability to soften our egos’ agendas in order to surrender and offer each moment what is called for and aligned with our greatest thriving.