What do you think of when you hear the term “burnt out?”
These days, everyone seems to be stressed.
The strains of balancing work, relationships, family and recreation can be overwhelming and exhausting.
But burnout is different – suffering from long-term fatigue, stress, and disinterest is life altering.
In May, a new study was published in the Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine called “Take charge: Patients’ experiences during participation in a rehabilitation programme for burnout.”
Eighteen patients with burnout committed to a one-year rehabilitation program.
They were separated into two groups. One group used only Qigong as a rehabilitation method, and the other used Qigong in addition to a cognitively oriented behavioral approach, such as group exercises and affirmation.
Anncristine Fjellman-Wiklund PhD from Karolinska Institute in Sweden, conducted this program to determine the effectiveness of behavioral approaches and mind body methods.
The results demonstrated the effectiveness of holistic approaches.
Experiencing group support and other holistic methods are beneficial for behavioral change. Specifically, patients found that group participation was important in motivating them to change.
Holistic approaches, mindfulness meditation and guided imagery are becoming increasingly accepted.
To learn more, check out NICABM’s Mind/Body courses.
Leave a comment below – how do you treat burnout?
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Teaching clients and students Qigong movements offers them a way to experience the stillness associated with meditation and deep relaxation. Specific movements may be useful for various intents such as:to help lift depression and increase one’s capacity for joy and to create balance physically and emotionally. It really enhances one’s awareness of their bodymind. Thanks.
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Causes of burnout:
Professional Studies (not mine) showed a psychological cause of burn out includes hopelessness in one’s – that whatever we do, after a lot of effort, can’t make a positive result. This is different from getting physically tired out, even significantly drained, doing something we care about that we see can do good.
Related to this: Professional psychological analysis found that people with physical chronic fatigue are not psychologically depressed. Rather, they are frustrated that they can’t do their work & that medical help they seek does not understand. From Fatigued to Fantastic by Dr Tietlebaum describes the tests & medical knowledge that cured him & cured thousands of others, that most MDs just dont know, & he explains why they dont yet know. It is a book for MDs & patients alike. Add Chinese Medicine & wester herbology & living food nutrition & the results can be good.
On thyroid, good info incl a manual for MDs is at Wilson’s Temperature Symptom site; MD Dr Wilson has been recognized by MDs since the 1990s. Adrenal Fatigue website has good info. Iron deficiency that does not show anemia is also an issue. There is an MD national advisory board group some name I forget – very good articles & info even for MDs. National Anemia Action Council or something like that.
I mention all this because it’s easier to be physically burned out & emotionally negative with these parts of us weakened. And I write on all of this from my own experience.
There is a whole section in the E-book on Burnout including its body effects.
Oops, forgot:
passcode for Stress Removal Ebook is
nomorestress all lower case, all one word.
nomorestress.
I’ve meditated with the wisdom offered in the book, A Course in Miracles, from the Foundation of Inner Peace, since 1985. The more recently published volume has added previously unpublished writings on Psychotherapy and Spirituality. When we come to understand the true meaning of sanity/insanity and our most humble role as psychotherapists from the spiritual perspective,the issue of burnout becomes an irrelevant conversation. It is simply and only about love and forgiveness, and the understanding that both client and therapist are in the psychotherapeutic relationship due to a need for healing in both. One is hopefully further along than the other, yet both need to grow.
I believe burnout is often caused by societal attitude or expectation, where pedestals exist that actually detract from the therapeutic relationship. When we can give ourselves permission to be human rather than expert, forgiveness happens and burnout doesn’t. This is why I’ve always known that the best therapist is one who is in therapy:)
~Corry
seek and give love. this is essential to healing. the deficit of it may be a premorbid condition of burn out. but certainly, it is integral to repair and sustenance. the idea of it can be glossed over, obscured by all the other obvious helpful more clinically identifiable aspects of addressing trauma and burn out.
Being a helping professional, I have experienced burn-out three times, I’m very cautious when I approach the DMZ between sanity and insanity. Recently I took a 2-week trip to China and studied Chinese Taoist Medical QiGong BaGua with Wan Sue Jian and found it to be the most liberating practice I’ve done. I hardily agree that QiGong is an incredible art and meditative practice.