How to Recover on Days When Your Mental Battery Hits Zero: Gentle Charging Methods Even for the Lazy
Have you ever noticed that there are days when
your mental battery is completely drained
?
Days when you feel so stuck that you can't even find the charging cable.
In the past, every time I reached that state, I would get depressed about
“not being able to rest properly,”
which only drained my battery further.
But recently, I found an
“easy recovery method”
that even a lazy person like me can keep up with.
First, I lowered the bar for “recovery” to the absolute minimum.
It doesn't have to be a grand recovery like taking a bath or going outside.
On days when my mental battery is at zero, I go with the mindset of
“if I'm breathing, I'm doing fine.”
It’s strange, but just doing this makes half of the mental burden melt away.
There is only one thing to do next.
Give a treat to one of your five senses.
For example,
Wrap yourself in a soft blanket (sense of touch)
Spray a little of your favorite scent (sense of smell)
Dim the lights and rest your eyes (sense of sight)
Just doing this gives you a “sense of treating yourself properly,” and you recover just a little bit.
Furthermore, as a lazy person, I have a few revival switches.
Change the room lighting to a warm color
Play videos of your favorite idol just for the “sound”
Open the screen even if you can't get any work done
These are tricks that work even though you're doing almost nothing.
It’s about tricking your brain while gently bringing yourself back to life.
The last important thing is to
accept that “it’s normal as a human to have days at zero.”
In fact, I try to think of days when I can't do anything as “days when the reset button was pressed.”
Just by not blaming yourself for that, the speed of your recovery the next day changes completely.
Days when your mental battery hits zero are exactly when the art of pampering yourself comes in handy.
With small tricks that even a lazy person can do, let’s survive loosely again today.