Burnout

“I feel completely burned out.” “It’s as if someone pulled the plug on my energy.” “Each day I feel like I’m confronted with overwhelming obstacles.”

This or a similar experience is how patients with burnout describe their everyday life.

Tasks that were once easy and manageable become more and more exhausting. Each step appears as an insurmountable hurdle that seems to sap one’s vitality and energy. The feeling of stress and permanent exhaustion reinforces the fear of not being able to manage one’s life. Many people turn to too much coffee, tablets or alcohol, figuring that it will help them gain back vital energy.

It is a vicious cycle, and once caught up in it, one often doesn’t often see a way out.

What is the Vedic medicine point of view on burnout?

Metabolic residues develop continuously due to improper lifestyle. In the case of burnout, toxins (in Ayurveda called “Ama”) accumulate in the physiology and create fatigue and heaviness. Missing vital substances, stress and a strained nervous system will do the rest and reinforce the feeling of being burned out.

In Ayurveda every patient is different and so each person’s burnout varies. The Ayurvedic approach at our Centre is holistic.

Vedic medicine offers different methods of treatment. After an in-depth medical diagnosis at our Centre, a comprehensive treatment plan is individually tailored for each patient with burnout.

They recognize that healing must take place on all levels. In the case of burnout, for example, an emphasis on elimination of toxins as well as balancing of the nervous system combined with nourishment of mind and body through life-giving substances in daily nutrition can be recommended. Helpful yoga, breathing and meditation exercises, as well as specific herbal mixtures tailored according to your needs, support a health-conscious lifestyle. In this way, your natural self-healing abilities can re-establish a life filled with energy and vitality.