Your burnout is a culturally-curated labyrinth.
Overwhelm, burnout, looping, upper limits …
They’re all a culturally-enforced labyrinth no one teaches you how to get out of.
You think you’re stuck because that’s what it feels like when you have so many layers of energy in your body, opposing your true expression.
Your true essence, the core of YOU, is something perfect that doesn’t need any fixing whatsoever.
And that is deep inside of you.
Whether it fuels your daily lived experience and the way you create your reality, depends on how connected you are to it.
Which correlates usually to how many layers culture, religion, family of origin, and life experience have gathered over the top of that core essence of self.
In your system’s effort to belong, receive love, experience safety, keep friends, accomplish what you were “supposed” to accomplish… you’ve constructed layers of ego or identity or personality over the top of the parts of your authentic expression that have been shamed or suppressed in other ways.
And now you have no access to your power, your will… you're stuck or looping or plateaued and can't get out of it.
An example of this structure looks like this:
You were born, a perfect being with unlimited potential
In that perfection, you exhibited behavior deemed shameful, frivolous, or unacceptable
ie being creative instead of smart… or
innocently exploring/touching your body parts with curiosity as a small child and being told “oh no, don’t touch yourself there” - perhaps even having your hand slapped away.
The pure perfect part of you that is creative or exploratory has now been unconsciously suppressed, for fear of not being accepted or loved
Over the top of this you develop a way of being that is deemed more acceptable
You become funny or hardworking instead of creative
You live disconnected from your body or your desire to explore your own body or find pleasure in it
Perhaps even further into young adulthood someone - a peer this time - criticizes you for being “boring” (hardworking), not serious enough (funny), or a prude (disconnected from your body and the pleasure there), so…
You develop yet another personality layer to belong and receive love:
Creative - Funny - “A Serious Person”
Creative - Hardworking - “The Life Of The Party”
Curious - Disembodied - “Loves A Good F*ck”
As you can sense, this can go on and on. And it takes SO much energy to keep these structures in place over your essence. Which leads to.. burnout, overwhelm, anxiety, etc. etc.
This is why mainstream therapy often fails to “work” long term.
You spend a lot of time talking about the personality layers you’ve developed over the top of your core essence, further reinforcing them, resisting them (which creates another layer), or even more deeply stuck in the loop.
But in therapy, now you “know better” - which creates even more frustration.
True healing doesn’t emerge from staying in the labyrinth of personality matrices with someone shouting at you from the outside (in their own labyrinth) about where to go next.
Or from staying in your looping, stuck mind all by yourself trying to think your way out of this, trying every single option in front of you from a place of panic. Grasping.
True healing - getting out of the stuckness, anxious looping thoughts and behaviors, plateau, burn out, or upper limit - comes from walking the spiral of the labyrinth deep in in in, to the center 🌀
There are so many mythological stories of the journey of the labyrinth that I won’t outline them here but there’s a reason this is such a potent archetypal structure.
It’s the blueprint for the journey of our life.
At the center of the spiral is YOU, your core essence, the part of you that is unchanged no matter what occurs in this life or any of the next…
The part of you that is whole, holy, perfect.
And when you find that part of yourself, it becomes the only resource you need to navigate yourself out of stuckness, overwhelm, upper limits.
It’s actually inside of you.
And I know if you’ve read this far, you can sense that it’s there. You can sense the truth of this.
Your personality matrix is a blueprint.
Stuckness, overwhelm, burnout, upper limiting is how the ceremony begins.
Don’t try to think your way out of it with a mind that is already working against itself.
Navigate it with your heart. With knowing that is deeper than your thoughts.
