Fatigued brain fog and tension headaches affect many people and create low physical and mental energy. I have found self help techniques can alleviate my symptoms. Fatigued brain fog can affect women who consider themselves to be on the highly sensitive spectrum. We become easily overwhelmed. You know what it’s like when, out of the blue, you experience ‘one of those fatigued brain fog episodes’. Having to take enforced down time. Then reaching for the caffeine or pain killers to try and alleviate the symptoms just to get through the day.
This recently happened to me. After a couple of days taking self care without an improvement, I was becoming more emotional as time passed. I know myself quite well. With having various self help coping techniques. Yet this time was different. Because underlying the physical symptoms there were emotions that needed to be confronted, face on.
Due to knowing how many people are affected by fatigue conditions I wanted to share what I did. In the hope that these might offer some light relief and easing of the fatigue symptoms. Or, at the very least inspire you to seek out holistic options.
A small disclaimer …
Please be aware that I am not advocating you use any of these techniques to replace medical intervention or stop taking prescribed medicines. Nor am I offering any guarantees of any of this may help. Just my inspirations and what worked for me.
What did I do to alleviate fatigue brain fog?
Some options for relief of fatigued brain fog
During a recent ‘fatigued brain fog episode’ after several days feeling physically like I was spiraling downwards. I was becoming more emotional as the symptoms progressed. I realised that I needed to write about how I was feeling down. Yet I was in such a muddle with how I was feeling. I’d lost the plot! I have a journal and pen by my bed. So I asked myself ‘what do I feel?’ Did I feel anxious, despondent, hopeless, scared and nervous stomach. I simply didn’t understand why I was like this. My head hurts and I have neck and head tension. I feel panicky as I don’t know what’s wrong and how I can help myself more. The ‘what-if’ monkey mind started to accelerate these fears. Did you know that in cognitive behavioural therapy this is described as catastrophic thinking?
I asked myself was I allowing myself to get into this fatigued state. Was it to avoid not dealing with life? You could say this was a legitimate reason for avoiding getting things done and making decisions. I also recognised that the state I was in, was not the real me. It didn’t define me and yet it was controlling my physical and mental wellness. I recalled that I used to experience these symptoms. That feeling that way had influenced how I lived in the past. Yet now as I’d moved on with my life I asked myself. Were these symptoms more connected with an imbalance in my life?
The secret language of your body and emotional freedom release
I looked up fatigued conditions related to the head in Inna Segal’s book ‘The secret language of your body, the essential guide to health and wellness’. It states, possible contributing factors – feeling frustrated, judgmental, resistant to change, overwhelmed by life with too much to think about and too many burdens to carry. This resonated with me.
For regular self help I use tapping, most often the Faster Emotional Freedom Technique to acknowledge how I feel. To honour myself in how I’m coping. Stating out loud the symptoms, the emotions and what I’m making it all mean. Bringing it out into the open to then let it go and release. In Inna’s book it offered a visualising technique combined with stretching and adapted yogic breathing. I put this into practice combining tapping (on certain acupuncture points with my fingers). At this point my dog was just starring at me with curiosity. Then I felt a bubbling of fear in my stomach, like agitation, and a strong desire to have a whole body shake out.
If you’ve never had a whole body shake out I can thoroughly recommend it to ground yourself, loosen up, break up an intense period of thinking left brain activity or sitting at the computer.
I’ve found a useful quick focusing pranayam based chant, connecting with the out breath , humming ‘mmmmm’, whilst gently closing the ear flaps with the thumbs, eyes shut. After a few rounds you open the eyes and both the eyes and brain seem gently calm, refocused and rebalanced.
I ended the practice with tapping in positive statements. Blowing my nose and wiping the tears, taking some fuller out breaths and walking around a bit.
How I felt afterwards
I am writing this article shortly afterwards as I wanted to share my experiences. I feel fresher of mind. The headache has gone and the tiredness and fatigued reduced significantly. I feel calm. With more focus and capable of getting on with the day’s tasks.
Ultimately this is about knowing ourselves and when to take notice of underlying emotional issues. Often these relate to basic instincts and fears, such as insecurity, self doubt and overwhelm. Sometimes our amazing brain is simply telling us to take time out for an extended pause moment.
Wishing you all an ‘easy like sunday morning’ state of mindfulness.
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