Brain fatigue

Brain fatigue affects almost everyone from time to time. However, a growing number of people live with ever increasing amounts and millions endure debilitating brain fatigue. There have always been reasons for people to feel occasional brain fatigue but now there are a whole new range of causes. In terms of human history, this new kind of brain fatigue is recent.

What causes brain fatigue?

We are continually exposed to information. Every conversation, noise, sight, smell, taste, touch, decision, feeling - it all has to be processed by your brain. These kinds of brain stimulus have been around since we lived in caves.

However, the amount of information we exposed to has increased more in the last 50 years than in the previous 5,000.

Brain stimulus such as phone calls, television shows, video games, email, internet, driving, billboards, information intensive workplaces, and every other piece of information that you are consciously or unconsciously exposed to - it too has to be processed by your brain.

It takes a substantial amount of mental energy to sense, interpret, filter, memorize, and act-on the ever increasing waves of information. Brain power requires chemical and electrical energy.

The volume and speed of information adds up and causes the brain to become over stimulated and over activated. The modern way of life does not give the mental engine enough time or circumstances to "cool down."

This type of brain fatigue is caused by too much stimulus and/or chaotic stimulus. Our brains are simply not suited for high levels of continual stimulus or ongoing brain stress. Our culture has become an Attention Deficit Disorder culture.

Living in an increasingly complex and information intensive world, being-busy-being-busy, and non-stop pressure to perform combine to lower the brains energy reserves. A brain will "crash" as soon as the energy reserves drop below the level needed to keep it functioning. Millions have brain fatigue and turn to unhealthy amounts of caffeine and stimulants because their brain feels tired much of the time. This approach is not a real solution, only a temporary "fix" that triggers the adrenal glands as the brain /body is "tricked" into a stress response. Brain fatigue can also be related to a number of brain problems, brain fog, or brain injury symptoms.

How to reduce brain fatigue

• Decrease brain stress factors: get more genuine quiet time
  
  
• Work with brain balance factors: eat lighter healthier meals, be more physically active
  
  
• For faster results, do a brain train program, brain support program, or meditation retreat

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