October 12, 2021

EP 017 | Spiritual Burnout and The Healing Power of Rest

34 minutes

Today on this episode of The Psychedelic Integration Podcast, we're coming to you from the comfort or our living room sofa to talk about Spiritual Burnout and The Healing Power of Rest. What is spiritual burnout or therapeutic burnout, what does it look like, and how can you learn how to spot it? This is a crucial subject that is rarely talked about (but often experienced) on any spiritually focused path, and can be especially profound and important to recognize as part of your psychedelic integration plan.

In this episode, John and Sinclair have a conversation about...

How working on spiritual development can become an obsession, making life feel heavy and hard

Defining spiritual burnout or therapeutic burnout, and what it looks like when you don't take rest

How avoiding psychedelic integration actually leads to spiritual burnout

How society rewards hustle culture, grinding yourself down, and overachieving and the dark side of doing this with plant medicines and psychedelics

Why using plant medicine for "performance enhancement" can feel out of alignment

Signs of spiritual burnout including low energy, depression, loss of excitement, loss of excitement, overwhelm, and exhaustion

Psychedelics are designed to reconnect us to our natural curiosity about ourselves and the universe, and when it stops feeling good, that's a sign that something is out of balance

Why you have to take breaks from medicine to see results and allow for healing

Setting up for disappointment by looking at ourselves as unhealed, never doing enough, and seeing spiritual development as a problem to be solved

How to recognize spiritual burnout, what causes it, and how to shift away from feeling overwhelmed

Taking it easy, taking your time, slowing down, and allowing things to be as they are

Consciousness expanding is only one side of the coin, integration is the other side

Balancing doing with rest and receiving

Asking yourself, what is the point of sitting with medicine if you are not doing anything with it?

Avoiding spiritual burnout starts with understanding that medicine is a tool, spiritual living is a path

It takes how long it takes, and that is a gift

Shifting from perfectionism to progress and celebrating all the positive steps you take on your path of growth

Fun as an integration practice

Being gentle and compassionate with yourself when you are doing shadow work

Short term vs. long term burnout, and how each is interrelated to lack of community, understanding, and support

Taking breaks from medicines or anything that is sucking the joy out of your life is healthy and necessary

Connecting back to your heart and listening to your body

Learning how to know what season you are in and how you can work with us to integrate your psychedelic journeys over a longer period of time

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By Sinclair Fleetwood | Spiritual Psychedelic Integration Coach

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