If you don’t have depression, or burnout…but just are not feeling ‘yourself’, then you could be in a funk!
To be honest, I have felt like I have been in a funk in and out this year.
I have wondered if it is an energetic funk, in terms of planetary alignments/retrogrades/lunar activity. I have wondered if it is numerology based given the year we have entered into.
(1.22) I chat about what a funk is vs burnout or depression
(2.44) What does a ‘funk’ look like for me?
It varies from point to point at different times and may not be ALL at the same time! I may oscillate between them, or be more at odds with a particular point at any one time;
(6.31) Yet, no matter what the ROOT cause or reason is, when I have felt particularly ‘stuck’ or perturbed or ‘funky’, I lean into tried and trusted measures to help ‘shift’ underlying stagnation or energy…because it is all well and good to recognize that we are IN a funk, but to DO something about it is where the REAL POWER lies!
(7.45) So, what do I do about it?
First I check in and introspect as to what is it possibly telling me?;
+boredom?
+Misalignment in a particular aspect?
+ Not listening to my soul?
+ Pushing myself too hard?
Then, I love to then look into what could it be a result of;
(20.30) I chat about what I do to help lift me OUT of a funk
I hope you take some pearls of wisdom out of this episode and that it can bring some clarity and perspective into your life and what you may be going through.
xx
Namita
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