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Sometimes Your Soul Gets Tired.
A modern look at soul loss via ancient sources & science.
I was supposed to grab a taxi and a boat today to the Air Gili. A small chain of islands between Bali and Lombok.
After the surgery, the death of a loved one and running all over yesterday my soul gave a hard “f&*# that,” so I’m staying put for a day or two.
My energy levels are fine. My awareness seems fine. Though I question if everything that normally would get through is getting through.
I’m just exhausted in some portion of me that doesn’t relate to my ability to lift things or think them.
Wearing thin.
Older traditions have ways of talking about this lack of energy.
Shamanic tribes speak of soul loss.
Traditional Chinese medicine would talk about the way our primordial Jing nurtures and sustains our mind.
I think Jung would say it’s an introversion of the libido, necessary for grieving.
Modern psychology would probably label it depression, occasionally anxiety, at times psychosis. At best we would describe it as emotional exhaustion.
