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Yesterday I made a video about my experience with burnout and shared it here. Immediately afterwards I felt pretty bad. Not in a regretful or shameful way, but in a tired and emotionally low way. This is the "vulnerability hangover', it happens to me a lot, and it's fine...
Here is the burnout video. Obviously it's a pretty raw and vulnerable topic, but I am getting more comfortable with playing in these spaces. I think that when we are vulnerable (and it goes okay), we learn that the world is safer than we thought... https://t.co/I0Q7pRfvHr
The leads to an update of the emotional and psychological models surrounding the thing that we just shared ā that we thought may have been unsafe. The principle of psychophysical unity from Alexander Technique says that anything mental is also physical https://t.co/kfNmpoUrKK
This is why I get tired and withdrawn after being vulnerable. I release a held psychological/emotional pattern and that leads to a corresponding release in held muscular tension. I'm tired for little while, but after that there is a renewed sense of ease and lightness.
I still caution against being too vulnerable too soon. I have a sufficient sense of psychological safety here and I am increasingly well practiced. It's important not to be punished for doing a good thing. I talk about 'fear dials' here if useful: https://t.co/tg9wMQyXPM
And I made a YouTube video about this because I'm on a roll and why not. https://t.co/AuT9kwC0FY
@m_ashcroft Thanks for sharing this, Michael. Helpful (and endearing) to know that necessity for wellness has guided you as well as passion/interest. Here's to a different mode of high performance, without the need for a reference curve!