Are you Suffering from Psychic Burnout?

Did you know there's such a thing as psychic burnout at work? 

Many psychics, mediums, healers & empaths find themselves struggling from psychic burnout at various points in their lives. The problem is that unless you know what's happening you run the risk of falling into self-blame and judgement for being "weak" or somehow not good enough.

When you work in the psychic or holistic field, you have to do work that involves giving a lot of yourself - and I mean A LOT. There's a reason most of us don't work what are considered to be "normal" full time hours, because it's just too much for certain modalities.  

The problem itself begins with our culture. We live in a society where you are usually compensated for your time, and there's an expectation that as a working person you should work a set number of hours per week, say 40, or you're somehow lazy or not working as hard as you could be.

The issue here is that our traditional way of looking at work doesn't translate well into the psychic arena, or for anyone who is sensitive or empathic. Working with our higher abilities and the more subtle energies takes a lot out of you on less obvious levels, and it's not just about time spent on a task, but the psychic energy spent too.   

This is sometimes compounded, because I think some people have the impression that doing this work is somehow "easy" because we just plug ourselves in to our spirit guides and channel the messages a bit like an audio typist being dictated to. Nothing could be further from reality. We are using up reserves within ourselves that most people don't even know exist let alone use, but because there's no gauge indicating how much of ourselves we have expended, apart from how we feel, it can be difficult to measure or explain.

This is what I want to address today because I see far too many beautiful & sensitive souls working themselves to burnout and then blaming themselves for not being good enough, or being somehow deficient or lazy.

And this isn't limited to those working in the psychic or holistic field either.

Empaths, psychics and other sensitive people can struggle in any regular job too.

And this is another point I want to stress:

Empaths & psychics can struggle is ANY work environment because we give more of ourselves than the average person.

If you're a naturally psychic, sensitive or empathic being, you will probably have noticed that certain jobs and working situations are very difficult for you to do, especially on the longer term. You might be able to do them short term, but very quickly you find yourself feeling emotionally drained, depressed, lacking in motivation, perhaps even having trouble sleeping and feeling resentful about having to do the job, but not really knowing why.

In these situations, other people tend to helpfully tell us that we're just being lazy, or maybe we need a holiday or perhaps we just need to "get real" about what work life is all about. 

But what if this becomes a recurring theme in your life, and no matter how hard you try, you can't seem to stop this pattern in your work life, and keep finding yourself drained on a psychic level? Then what?

Well I want you to consider the possibility that you're not the problem, you're just different. 

For years I berated & beat myself up for not being able to keep going in the financial services industry. I couldn't understand why it seemed to literally drain my life force when other people could just get on with it for years on end, and have lifetime careers whereas I just couldn't.

I was good at my job, but it was honestly like visiting an emotional vampire every day. It wasn't physical fatigue, and I know that I am not lazy - but there was something else going on that made me feel progressively exhausted, demotivated and eventually tearful and resentful at the prospect of going to work.

I beat myself up about this for years, wondering what was wrong with me, and why I couldn't just be like everyone else?

I did eventually realise that I'm not like everyone else, and that's why the star shaped peg that is me just can't force herself to fit in that square hole, but that didn't really help because I couldn't see any other options available in the world of regular work to enable me to earn a crust. I just didn't fit in, but I had bills to pay so I needed a solution!

If you put a highly sensitive and empathic person into a normal job, it's going to be tough on them. Not only will they be giving a lot to the office, the people around them and the customers on an energetic level, but they are going to be absorbing a lot of the negativity around them like a cleaning sponge. There's a reason people love working with us and feel good in our company! They are literally leeching off us, without even meaning to.

All the psychic protection in the world can't prevent this entirely, and trying to hold yourself together and do any sort of job for hours and days on end, when it feels emotionally like a thousand carrion crows picking pieces of your flesh is not a recipe for long term success.

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I found it terribly frustrating to realise that the traditional world of work just wouldn't work for me (and it got worse the older and more psychically & spiritually developed I became) but I made my peace with the fact that I had a different purpose, a different calling and maybe that was what I should be focussing on. So I did what seemed logical. I  moved to the psychic & holistic field full time and turned my gifts into my full time job.

And to my horror, the same thing happened again, and I really wasn't expecting it to!

You see, the issue here is not so much the work itself (although that is definitely a part of it) so much as how you do it. I quit one full time job and gave myself five new ones, being jack of all trades, responsible for everything as the owner and sole employee of a small business.

It felt like the right thing to do, but I made one fatal error - I kept the same work ethic and working pattern as before. I stayed in the old energy.

Now for anyone who hasn't ever done it, working for yourself seems great, but you have to be smart about it so it doesn't become an unfulfilling burden. Doing the psychic or spiritual work you've always wanted to dedicate your life to will burn you out very fast if you try to approach it in the wrong way or push yourself to perform as a person in a "normal job" would or could.

One of my mistakes was to top up my earnings by working for other psychic companies online or by telephone. I was really grateful for the extra cash, but the work was disastrous for me on an energetic level and I burned out fast.

I can give readings back to back, but even I have my limits!

There's a reason that in days gone by the ones who dedicated their lives to spiritual work and being seers for their community literally did nothing else, and spent their days in solitude, often in quiet and away from everyday worries about money or productivity.

Psychic burnout isn't pretty, and it looks a bit like having a breakdown.

So if that's where you find yourself right now, it may be time to take a look at your life and design a new plan, a new blueprint for how to work and live. 

What is the solution?

There's no easy answer here, and I think that this is one of the very real challenges that face us as we move into the age of Aquarius. 

As I've said many times before, the old systems or working and ways of earning a living just won't work in the future. Some of us are already too sensitive to be able to squash ourselves back down into that heavy, lower vibrational energy and the ones that do are paying a huge, personal price. 

Our mission here, should we choose to accept it, is to design a new way to be. A way that allows us to have the rest, freedom and time for wellbeing and spiritual retreat that we truly need. The generations that come after us are going to need it even more than we do, so we have a responsibility to them as well as to ourselves.

Each generation of children is becoming more spiritually advanced and vibrating at a higher level that the last, so it's our job to be forerunners and help to create new and novel ways of living in peace, harmony & plenty at a higher vibrational level of existence. That also means that all bets are off, and we have to start from scratch - no mean feat!

The old structures of the patriarchal, restrictive age we are leaving behind are falling apart, and we will see that more and more as time goes on. 

Pacing ourselves, getting adequate rest & alone time can only be a stop gap. We must find more permanent solutions to the problem of Psychic Burnout than just taking a break from the 9 to 5 rat race every so often, and hoping it's enough.

A whole new blueprint is needed, and we must step up to be trail blazers now. 

I'm not saying it's going to be easy, but I do think it's going to be fun.