[The Roots of Tiredness | MEMBERS' LIVESTREAM](https://www.youtube.com/live/MS69T-kRtOM?si=z13LMKcYcUCDdorS) - Causes of fatigue - Physical - Metabolic conditions - Obesity: adipose tissue produces hormones - Anemia: less red blood cells / oxygen. - Vitamin D deficiency. - Sleep disorders - EG: Obstructive sleep apnoea - Testosterone levels - Hypothyroidism. - Psychological fatigue - Energy/fatigue loosely linked. People can feel fatigued when having lots of energy. - Adenosine in brain's key marker of fatigue. - Psychological tiredness is an anti motivational strategy: intended to reduce energy wastage. - Tiredness de-motivates behaviour - Evolutionary Development: elimination of discomfort, brain wired to remove negativity. Meaning being at neutral removes negativity. - Can come from a remoteness of values. - Excitement motivates behaviour. - Value-driven behaviour, approach behaviour. - Ego can sap motivation. Preventing self from being in touch with values. - Addictions/digital technology can sap motivation increasing fatigue. - Curiosity/exploration too easily met by internet = default to internet rather than more meaningful activities. - We hamstring our curiosity/capacity for positive feedback from behaviours. - Problem with science: unhelpful for self-improvement (EG: understanding dopamine circuitry doesn’t make you more motivated) - Dr. K Opinion. - Spirituality not designed around objective truth. But what appears to work for people (EG: meditation). -  Gunas - Tamas/inertia - Dullness of the mind - Potatoes; onion, garlic; tomato/eggplant - Rajas/activity - Fresh meat - Exercise. - Satvas: Balance between both. - Fruit/flower - Satva: balance - A high level of satva = superhuman abilities/ energy. - Don’t need time off if capacity / how we live everyday is sufficient. - Cultivating Satva - Consequence of actions. ABC/Functional Analysis. - Healthy diet. - Dopamine receptors will calibrate to what you are eating.  - Higher insulin spikes = more fatigue. - Any action today, what will effect be on energy level? - Don’t build for today, build for tomorrow. - Scientifically: attitude shift of not running away from the negative in life will greatly increase energy levels. - Victor Frankl: paradoxical intention: when you avoid a negative, it gets worse. - Nothing is made better from procrastination. - All luck does is propagate bad decisions. - Embrace karma: for better days to come I have to face my problems. - Solving problem when propagating negative karma/actions. -  Setting boundaries + cutting people off: we avoid doing so because of the negative consequences: we feel guilty, we lose the person. - We put off the problem even if it produced bad karma - Be tranquil with not being available. - Learn to embrace your karma, and you will not be tied. - Action is not hard, unhelpful thinking about action is hard. - Worrying about tomorrow ruins today, if you ruin today, tomorrow will be worse. - When a problematic relationship arises, your response to that can cost you 6-months (or a lifetime). - People say: “I have no time to do anything” - Reality: average cellphone use 4 hours +, imagine what you could do with that time. - We have time, we just waste it. - Energy/time being wasted into this etc. - We are dulling our pleasure receptors by feeding too much. Decrease stimuli = increases sensitivity. - If you eat plain food every day, you will begin to enjoy it. - People will incrementally sow negative karma which accumulates/snowballs. - Take sustainable approach to energy. Once developed, can continue action continually. - Q: "What is the tomorrow I am creating for myself." - Hippocampus: Fed by thalamus (sensory gates), use external worksheets rather than thoughts to learn. - Q&A - Q: Helping people you live with? A: You don't, people you live with don't want it, often the kind of help we have isn't well-received = stop trying.