it's when things finally start to move that the wheels in your life start
spinning faster and faster and faster you're manifesting you're expanding you're stepping
into the new so much and so quickly that it's extremely overwhelming ungrounding exciting
stimulating yeah you bet and there's very little peace and it's very common to be
always kind of like tender emotionally because you're just at the brink of just pure overwhelm
we just got this new puppy the other day and you know we've had dogs before and we forgot
how demanding a puppy is we also have three kids they're home from school we're moving in under
30 days and we were woken up at four in the morning with this dog crying that needs to go
potty and we're not sleeping and the other night my wife woke up and she was just in tears she was
like I just can't do this there's just too much going on too much going on too much on my plate
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hey what's going on my friends welcome to my YouTube channel my name is Victor and I help
people navigate through their Spiritual Awakening process and today's video is going to share about
what I call Awakening overwhelm as I kind of was talking about a little bit earlier the perception
that time and your life is speeding up and you're just kind of swept away with the speed and pace of
life and it causes you to feel overwhelmed and it has a lot of different issues that can come
up in this video you're going to learn about how to manage the overwhelm why it happens why it's a
great thing it's a phenomenal thing that you've earned my friend it means you're doing a good
job with your Shadow work and there's always so much to learn from this and I haven't seen this
discussed anywhere on YouTube so if you're here welcome if you're brand new to my channel and
enjoy the video my friends that's what I'm going to talk about today the The Awakening overwhelm
it's like a symptom that we go through for a variety of reasons and it's kind of a complex
topic with much to learn and benefit from even though it's seems kind of you know overwhelming
and challenging at times so how many of you in the last year have felt what I'm talking about
maybe not in this moment but the energy of like forward movement and like there's too much on
your plate too many things going on at once yeah a lot of yeah some of you probably filling it out
yeah that's exactly what I'm what I'm talking about now in my experience there's not that we
can quantify this this is just my best attempt to discuss this abstract phenomenon we're all kind of
finding ourselves going through from time to time but in my experience there's a couple of reasons
why this happens the first one is kind of the more basic one it's when it's self-created it's
when we're trying to do things too quickly it's it's where an example would be like you know what
I I've had enough I'm gonna start meditating every morning
and working out three times a week and I'm gonna start writing my book and I'm gonna take up a
gardening class and I'm gonna heal my father wound and it's like it's all good in theory it makes a
lot of sense but it's like it's like unrealistic it's setting ourselves up to we're overwhelming
ourselves sometimes we're trying to go too quickly now I'm gonna not really emphasize that one today
today I'm gonna emphasize more what of what seems to be I would dare I say and I rarely
credit things to this but almost like it's like the astrology it is like the energy sometimes I
find in the collective when all of a sudden we just find ourselves like being Swept Away
with with change after change after change and we're trying to keep up and I'm going
to talk about that a little bit and like how to manage it what to learn from it there's always
a lot of really interesting and valuable lessons within this feeling of being overwhelmed okay so
some of the I want to share some of the things that you can learn from this one of them is
the I would say like the the the worthiness to ask for help
a lot of times we're overwhelmed and there's a very simple solution and all it requires is saying
can I get some help please oh it's so hard for us to do though it happens all the time in a
this happened to me one time anyway when I was drinking Ayahuasca it was it was a
night that I was at like it was in Las Vegas so it was in like someone's house you know
um and I drank two cups it took my two cups of what is normally a very strong medicine and I
was surprised because I felt nothing and then I because I sat with this these people multiple
times I remember when the closing song came on and I was like okay it's damn it's over
I felt nothing then I was like in my mind I was like okay I guess it's time to go home I
had kind of like accepted it and was almost like ready to get the hell out of there been
laying there for like seven hours you know doing nothing basically just bored and all of a sudden
I started to feel the band I said it just came on like a freaking freight train and I was like holy
[ __ ] you gotta be freaking kidding me not no no no no I was ready to go to bed this is
this can't be happening this is gonna be that six hour Journey with no ceremony no space no shamans
that's exactly what it was man it was it got it taught that lesson without going into detail that
taught me so much about a lot of things but anyway I basically was sort of in this position to endure
potentially one of the strongest reactions to the medicine ever without the safety and
stability of the music and the shamans and just the community of others going through it with me
it was the end of the ceremony they all stopped they all like started talking and chit chatting
and eating snacks in the kitchen but my hyper sensitive state it was maddening I couldn't escape
in fact one time at one point the the participants thank God they like went
outside all of them for a few minutes and I saw that as my opportunity to like go somewhere else
like grab my like little my little like a mat in my pillow and I started to go upstairs and
I got upstairs and I was like nope nope this is worse than I went back downstairs and laid
there and they all came back in it was freaking Mayhem and I was just struggling I was caught
in like this loop I was just resisting it was it was too much for me to handle
and finally after like an hour of contemplating this simple little thing I just raised my hand
and there's a few people there so I wasn't just raising it for nobody I raised my hand
and all of a sudden this woman came over who I thought was a Helper and I was like I just said
help I said I need help she was like oh honey ah I'll get the shaman the shaman came over
and just the fact that the shamans sat down with me and I could see in her eyes she wasn't at all
concerned I was concerned I had all these stories about why things something has gone wrong in my
head you know and she was like nah bro you just gotta you know had that kind of attitude
it was like all that anxiety all that resistance just melted away and I was
Swept Away in this beautiful journey of just fascinating life lessons and
epiphanies and healings and it was instantly transformed when I finally asked for help
asking for help can be so hard why why is it so hard why why do we think that we're supposed to
do this thing called life alone with no help it's ridiculous and yet many of us do this so in this
overwhelmed energy sometimes the invitation is to Simply ask for help that's one of the lessons
another thing it just kind of accept the the the the flow of life sometimes things get so
out of our hands in our life situation that it brings awareness to just the extent that we're
always trying to control but sometimes I think think things need to get so out of control to
where we have no choice but to yield and let go it's exhausting to try to maintain everything you
know and as Alan Watts calls it he calls he says that life is wiggly life is wiggly it's random
it's it's Dynamic it's unpredictable it's it flows like water like the feminine but our minds
the part of us that always wants to control things it thinks in straight lines and you can even see
that in like the roads and the architecture it's very boxy and straight we're trying to
impose our lines on an inherently Wiggly nature of reality but it doesn't work it pinches us off from
our intuition and the flow of life and it makes life unnecessarily very difficult so sometimes I
find that things get out of control just so I can accept I don't have control I've never had control
you none of us have control over like the the the the bigness for lack of a better term of life
so it can really help almost like force you into a state of surrender and inner peace
it's also very good for showing us what's out of place in our life a lot of times
for me anyway when I'm overwhelmed there's usually something I'm insisting on doing
that no longer is needed it may have been needed at some point it may have made terrific sense
to spend two hours a day doing this this and that and but I've grown and I've changed but I
haven't gotten the memo it hasn't gotten into my thick head so even though the scene has changed
requiring a new prioritization of where I put my focus and energy my mind is caught
in this Loop of doing [ __ ] I don't kind of do basically and we get overwhelmed and it sucks and
what's happening why is it happening when will the full moon pass or whatever and it's like well no
you're doing it to yourself again you don't need to do this anymore
so sometimes in this energy if you look around you can see ah I'm wasting my energy in this area
that makes no sense and sometimes if we don't get that memo life will kind of reflect it to
you even more so like for me one time when I was building up my gym I may have shared this before
I was at a point where I was starting to finally succeed I finally learned a little
bit of the marketing and like how to sell like do consultations and people came in and I was
pretty quickly building up my clientele and it was great it was that energy of expansion and
excitement things were clicking and working finally but I found myself like getting more
and more and more exhausted more and more and more depleted less and less and less able to
keep up with this new Pace my life was going at and I ignored it I was like okay I've got
to work harder you know that was my mindset at the time I didn't know any better and then I got
golfer's elbow in both elbows I was like in my earlier 20s so it's like that's a not a common
thing for like a younger guy to have let alone in both elbows golfer's elbows really annoying
if you don't know it's like a tendonitis almost in like the joint so you you don't realize how
much you you grab things even picking up a cup of water like this it would it would like bother
it would bother it and I had like wraps on both arms and I was like what the hell's going on well
you're doing too much Vic and this this this this overwhelm this pain it led to the idea that maybe
you need to hire some help and I hired a personal trainer to like take on some of the clients and
it was like it was like the the clouds parted and God shined his rays of like love and light on me
and it was instantly better my golfers ever went away I was able to even go to the gym even more
so so this overwhelmed led to a wise adjustment a fine-tuning of where I put my focus and energy
and and things got better so anyways with all that said it's difficult it's difficult when when we
get overwhelmed like this and sometimes I think it's just just the nature of it and and that's
kind of my final tip if you feel this or next time if you do find yourself in this kind of expansion
phase where you relate to some of these things even with all the little lessons I mentioned you
might it might not be something you're doing wrong it might just be kind of where your life is at
you're building something you're growing something you're moving towards something and it requires
energy and it requires a sacrifice to other things it requires a sacrifice maybe to your like your
Zen and you're a little bit ungrounded a little bit like racy that's okay too and my tip is just
to roll with it there's a time to just get [ __ ] done and what helped me a lot is to accept that
sometimes I'm just going to be tired sometimes I will get overwhelmed as I'm building something new
and it doesn't have to be a problem if I don't decide it is a problem and if I learn to roll with
it not resist it and think oh I need I need to like I need to like take my time and Pace myself
and sometimes I just let myself go at it and it will make me unbalanced but I get a lot done in
a very short span of time it's it to me it's like a new way of like rapid manifestation and we just
got to go with it knowing there'll be a pure another dip where we can kind of chill and and
take a breather