Burned out: you feel drained. You\u2019ve put too much energy in an endeavor that symbolically failed.<\/strong><\/p>\n This means: it may have failed objectively, in reality\u2026 or only in your perception of that reality. The distinction is not clear in most cases.<\/p>\n So, you \u2018feel\u2019 drained. Completely out of motivation to tackle serious problems. Or even any problems. It might be that \u2018coming out of the house\u2019 has become a serious problem.<\/p>\n You are burned out. No fire anymore. No fuel. Nothing.<\/p>\n It might be that reading this text is already a problem. Listening to some music may be hard.<\/p>\n What to do?<\/p>\n Waiting for the energy to return? Actually, there is no other option\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Is there not?<\/p>\n Well, you still have options \u2018within the waiting\u2019 itself. You can \u2018wait\u2019 in several ways. With expectation or without. Expectation is very<\/em> powerful when it comes from deep inside. It\u2019s powerless if it\u2019s a mere shimmering at the surface of your mind.<\/p>\n So, that\u2019s eventually the<\/em> important element: depth.<\/strong><\/p>\n You say: I\u2019m just too tired, too \u2018burned out\u2019 to reach for depth.<\/p>\n Indeed? On the contrary: it takes energy to not<\/em> go towards depth, to \u2018hang on\u2019 to the layers above. The most spontaneous way is to let go.<\/p>\n So, if you are in this situation, maybe barely able to read this, try to relax as well as you can. You may be very stressed. Then don\u2019t push your stress away, since this takes an additional amount of energy. Go with your own flow. Try to find relaxation inside yourself. IF you found it, then you have found a path toward depth.<\/p>\n Follow your relaxation. You might feel this as something that opens itself to you.<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s an exercise you can do now and then. Don\u2019t enforce anything. Search the path of least resistance, in the right direction.<\/p>\n If you don\u2019t succeed now, then just try again a while later today, or tomorrow. In this also, you can practice expectation: at one time, you will succeed. It may be this time. It may be next time. It doesn\u2019t matter. You expect it to succeed.<\/p>\n In a relaxed state, you may then also expect to succeed in finding energy: a motivation to do something new or old, but quite unexpected. The energy to really like something, to do something.<\/p>\n If you feel any of this motivation, in any way, then stay with it. This moment is very important to you.<\/strong><\/p>\n Focus your attention on the expectation, appreciating it and validating it. Feel whether it is genuine to you, whether it really belongs to you.<\/p>\n Just staying with this is the best you can do for yourself at this moment. It may seem like not much, but after all:<\/p>\n That\u2019s the point of burnout in the first place. What seems like not much, is much.<\/strong><\/p>\n What seems like \u2018energy depleted\u2019 is \u2018energy not found yet\u2019. There is no shortage of energy inside you: maybe deep \u2013 deep \u2013 deep inside you, but nevertheless. If you reach that, you have an answer.<\/p>\n Staying with this makes you more open to it. You don\u2019t have to \u2018do\u2019 anything else. Staying with this is like giving sunshine to a plant. The plant needs sunshine to grow. Deep inside yourself, you need this attention to grow. No need to put energy in it.<\/p>\n Contrary to superficial attention, deep attention needs no energy.<\/strong><\/p>\n It flows by itself. The difficulty is that it\u2019s not easy to find the way to LET it flow. Trying desperately to act, to do the needed thing, closes the door to letting go. It may look simple and it is<\/em> simple and yet at the same time it is not<\/em> simple.<\/p>\n Doing the above exercise gets you there. Having faith in yourself is the only thing really needed.<\/p>\n