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I suffered from fatigue for some months and what helped me is to think about it as your brain being a CPU with a message queue. When the CPU is operating below
by pasta 9y ago
I suffered from fatigue for some months and what helped me is to think about it as your brain being a CPU with a message queue. When the CPU is operating below 100% the queue is empty all the time. But when it comes above 100% the queue starts to get longer and longer. And it is very very difficult to reduce the amount of messages sent to the queue.
Messages can be anything the brain should handle: hormones, sight, hearing, thoughts, anything.
When the queue grows your body also starts to work stange. And this can cause serious issues[1]. And also causes more and more stress wich let the queue grow even more.
So I also believe that stress and trauma are causes and when treated reduce the message queue.
[1] for me this was a lot of muscle contraction causing insulin issues and because of that more stress.
- agumonkey 9y agoI have a similar point of view about meditation. It shuts down inputs to this queue as much as possible.
- tedmiston 9y agoI've had a similar experience where I'd describe meditation as a high priority filter for the messages in my brain's queue.
- TheSpiceIsLife 9y agoI've meditated quite a bit. Been through some stressful events in the past few years (charged with drug trafficking, lost access to my child). I find three things have help, in order of descending importance /: meditation, jogging, weight training. But without meditation life is noticeable worse. So while we're using the computer metaphor, maybe meditation is like Garbage Collection: * Enables you to develop your application without having to free memory. * Allocates objects on the managed heap efficiently. * Reclaims objects that are no longer being used, clears their memory, and keeps the memory available for future allocations. Managed objects automatically get clean content to start with, so their constructors do not have to initialize every data field. * Provides memory safety by making sure that an object cannot use the content of another object. Yep, I'm gonna run with that.