How and why does the mind exhausts itself?

[Endangered-EGO]

I'm curious about why some things are so exhausting.

Sometimes it feels like the mind runs without at 6000RPM without shifting gears. Just exhausting itself, because it's used to running and doesn't know how to stop.

It doesn't matter if there are actual things to solve or not. The mind just does what it's always doing as fast as possible.

It seems like it needs to exhaust itself in order for it to stop and rest.

[PepperBlossoms]

If we are interested, we can go-go-go.  If we are not, we kinda stop and have a hard time continuing as the mind isn't able to go-go-go in ways it otherwise would as the stuff we are doing is not allowing a flow state based on how the mind wants to work.  It feels "exhausted" because it wants to work in a way that is different from how you are having it work - or do mind tasks on different things other than what you are currently giving it.

Maybe it is exhausted because it has already done whatever you are giving it over and over and it wants something new and different to explore.

It is like how we walk one way and then change direction - the mind is signaling to itself to change direction.

 

Edited October 14, 2021 by PepperBlossoms

[Thought Art]

5 hours ago, Endangered-EGO said:

I'm curious about why some things are so exhausting.

Sometimes it feels like the mind runs without at 6000RPM without shifting gears. Just exhausting itself, because it's used to running and doesn't know how to stop.

It doesn't matter if there are actual things to solve or not. The mind just does what it's always doing as fast as possible.

It seems like it needs to exhaust itself in order for it to stop and rest.

This is something to contemplate and research as there is no one answer to this question.

Usually stress is pretty exhausting.

Edited October 14, 2021 by Thought Art