Lars Christian Larssen explains how constant busyness keeps your stress hormones elevated and your nervous system stuck in overdrive. This rewires your brain so rest actually feels uncomfortable, triggering agitation and anxiety instead. Over time, these patterns can lead to burnout and serious illness.
Are you the sort of person that's just always busy running around feeling as if you never got time to ever do anything? Well, in fact, this is just consistently creating pulsive stress hormones. Now over time, this is actually going to create a state dependent memory learning. So this becomes ingrained in your behavior and into your neuroplasticity at the level of the metabolism. So what you're going to find is that when you then go to take a rest, you're going to feel agitated, concerned, and it almost feels like you have to be doing something. This is also a, a low level form of anxiety, although it might not be processed in that way in the mind. But if you're to actually try to shift and create changes in your behavior, it's going to be a challenge because there's a high level of sympathetic nervous activity continuous. And this is going to release chemicals that are going to prime you for action and movement. The issue here is that over the long term it's going to become a problem to your physical and mental health because eventually this is going to lead to burnout and you're going to end up with some form of chronic or acute disease.
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