This is an interesting and challenging question. You come home after a busy day and extremely fatigued. As usual you should take food but you are not hungry. Let’s guess what you will do: -
1. You will lie down on the bed without changing cloth and putting off shoes.
2. You will take aspirin or similar sorts of medicine.
3. You will start reading an interesting novel or if you are fond of music you will switch on TV to find out your favorite music.
4. You will involve yourself in conversation with a jolly friend or your family members.
5. You may like to go to cinema or opera or simply go for roaming.
6. You lie on the bed and try to sleep.
Are all these techniques are in right direction to get rid of tiredness? Let’s assume that you are a clerk or accountant in an office and have to perform your duties sitting on a chair. Now we may analyze the reaction of your body keeping in view the above six methods, which are adopted to get rid of fatigue.
If you go to bed without changing your cloth and putting off the shoes, by no means, you could be able to get relaxed. You have spent eight hours working in office. You have also spent at least half an hour in reaching home from office. Your body is cramped in tight socks and uneasy dress but you are trying to relax with these delegate constrains.
In the second situation you will take aspirin etc. to get relaxed. Let’s see how these pain killer medicines affect our body.
Assume you want to move your hand; first of all there will be a thought in your mind that you want to move your hand. This desire will be communicated to the hands through your nervous system and your hand will move to obey directions of your mind. When parts of body get tired this feeling of fatigue is also communicated to the mind through nervous system. Pain killing drugs do not eradicate tiredness rather they benumb your nervous system and you will have no feelings of pain, as these feeling could not be communicated to the mind thanks dampened nerves. Let’s assume for a movement that you are inflicted with a knee injury. You have not paid heed to this injury and it gone worse. Now you are crying with pain. Doctor gives you pain killer drugs or injection. Temporarily you will feel comfortable. However, this comfort is due to dullness of your nerve system. Just bent and see your wound, which is still soaring and bleeding. The use of painkillers is just like this. These are not magic pills. No doubt you may get temporary relief but it cannot take away your fatigue permanently. This is not a cure of fatigue because nothing has been done for the organs of your body, which are tired due to overburdened or idleness. Rather it is harmful to nerve system.
Reading novel or any other interest material you may be able to divert your attention by wandering in an amusing world but will it provide a good source of rest to your body. Is it sensible to again burden your vision and mind, which are already tired and worn out? Music may be helpful to switch your attention to emerging unrest and your mind may not feel the same but the fatigue would remain unhealed. To indulge you in an interminable discussion is wonderful. It would extinguish mental stress in minutes but what to do about physical fatigue? Moreover, there exists major deficiency in it as it makes your body more fatigued. You have spent whole day doing your job in office and night is reserved for reading novel. How cruel are you? You are enemy of your own health. In 8/10 hours you have totally exhausted the potential of your eyesight. Why you are so unkind to your vision that you have penalized it for reading curved and bent lines on a piece of paper? By seeing a movie or an amusement you may increase the turbulence of your body. Again it will just do one thing; divert your attention to your real problem i.e. fatigue. Suppose you are fond of scary movies. Does watching a scary movie help reduce your fatigue? The answer is no! The effect of watching a scary movie is anxiety, sleeplessness, phobia and fear. This may worsen the situation. This is not the end of the story. It was the unanimous view point of the scientists that watching television for hours obviously isn't the best way to spend leisure time-- inactivity has been linked to obesity and heart disease. But a new study quantifies TV viewing's effect on risk of death. Researchers found that each hour a day spent watching TV was linked with an 18% greater risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, an 11% greater risk of all causes of death, and a 9% increased risk of death from cancer[1].
And so far as the last method is concerned, if you are too much tired it will be hard to get a sleep. Nevertheless, we assume that you were lucky enough to succeed to go to sleep but can such a sleep help reduce your fatigue. Earlier, we discussed that main causes of fatigue are two: -
1. We excessively use organs of our body and nerves; and
2. Vice verse some parts of body and nerves remained idle and get sore.
Sleep is the best way of rest and to restore your energies and freshness. We will discuss sleep in detail later but here it is suffice to say that sleep is not the ultimate source of getting rid of fatigue. From sleep only those organs of our body will be able to get respite, which are tired due to hard work but it will not good enough to the organs, which remained idle or used too little during the whole day. By the passage of time former would loose their potential. In other words, those components would get rusty just like a redundant part of an engine. It is now substantiated that to get ride of fatigue we need two things; to eliminate the ordinary fatigue caused due to daily routine work and the other is to deal with those organs of our body, which are not mush utilized in our daily routine work. For this purchase we have to adopt different methods whilst moving, eating, sleeping, working by managing our leisure times so that our whole body remained busy and a particular component is not over burdened. Before dilating upon the methods of eliminating temporary fatigue it would be appropriate if we discuss in brief the drawbacks of fatigue on our life and how it prevent us to live a happy and comfortable life as without a healthy mind and body you cannot imagine to enjoy real happiness and pleasure of life.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
What is fatigue?
I do not want you to involve in technical discussion elaborating “what is fatigue?”, as I am afraid that will make you fatigued by studying these indifferent details and we by writing. You often feel tiredness or fatigue, so it is over-ambitious to indulge you in the details and just a brief over view would be sufficient.
Our body is just like a machine. For a better performance a machine requires better maintenance, rest and timely overhaul. Same is the matter with our body. Our body also requires all these facilities. How a machine gets out of order? Usually there are three major reasons causing defect in a machine: -
1. Excessive use of machine.
2. Machine is kept idle for a long period.
3. Machine is utilized contrary to its specifications.
These factors make a machine rusty, and soon the machine will become useless. Similarly, it is absolutely necessary for human beings to exercise regularly in order to keep the body strong and healthy.
Excessive work tired us, so we reach home being exhausted and out of sorts. Our body is completely exhausted or at least we are not as fresh as we were in the morning when we left the home. Nevertheless, this fatigue is natural and rest for a night will help to get rid of it. This can be named, as temporary fatigue, elimination of which is comparatively easy.
If we sit idle for long hours even then we feel tiredness and nausea. The people who think that tiredness is only due to hard work are mistaken. As we discuss later, a human body never gets tired due to work rather non-utilization of its organs is one of the real causes of fatigue.
The third reason is wrong utilization. We may understand it with the help of an illustration. You may have noticed that the performance of a machine would be on the higher side if we give rest to the machine with rational intervals. On the contrary, if we use it day and night at the same speed, without giving it rest, it will be ruined at some point of time, much prior to its normal life.
The most important thing is that if we want that some parts of the machine would move while the others remain idle, malpractice is a must. You may review your daily utilization of your body organs in the light of the aforesaid illustration.
In ancient times men used to live in jungles and he had to rely on his body strength to get food. Terrors of beasts, thunderstorm, rain, and fear of hot and cool weather had made him energetic but with the passage of time human beings get civilized. Progress of science makes him lethargic. Just think of Air Conditioner, deep freezers, washing machines, and other electronic appliances. All these appliances are to facilitate us and restrain us to move enthusiastically and energetically.
Thanks to diversification of job humans have to wok in specific sphere of life. Today, the peasant does only farming and a factory worker does only labor. A clerk goes to office early in the morning to perform table work and come back home after sunset. He has to utilize his hands, mind and sight. A hawker wanders whole day in the street carrying a basket over his head and a housewife remained busy all the time in kitchen, cleaning home, washing cloths and taking care of children. The Almighty has given them the same organs and complexion but all of them could utilize only some organs of their body while others remain idle. For instance, a clerk just utilizes his hands, mind and eyesight. A Peasant utilizes those parts of body, which are necessary for farming. The utilization of organs of a hawker’s body is also limited. Housewives have to bend to accomplish their job, which cause them backache.
The arms of the blacksmith are large and strong because he constantly uses it. The legs of the hill coolies are large and powerful because they walk so hard. On the contrary, the arms, legs and the whole body of many students and businessmen are small and weak because they sit much of the time and do not utilize their arms and legs significantly. It is another misconception that educated and high profiled people should not involve in laborious work. This is a great mistake. Muscular work is dignified and honored. Almighty says in his Holly Book “Laborer is My friend”. Many Prophets earned their livings by doing labor.
The technique of classification of work, though helpful in social and economic development of human being, has indeed played a pivotal role in spoiling human health. The above illustration shows that human beings engage in a particular field have to overburden some parts of their body while the others remain idle. Let’s recall the illustration of a machine where we reached to the conclusion that if there is any inconsistency in the utilization of components of a machine, it is natural that the situation would worsen. This is the main reason of our tiredness. Interestingly, few scientists defined fatigue as a strength, which we could not discharge. This book is written to base this ideology.
The reasons of fatigue could either be mental or physical but we cannot draw a line between them because relationship of mind and body is very deep and inseparable. So, in this book, first we discuss physical fatigue at length and later we would try to understand mental fatigue.
Our body is just like a machine. For a better performance a machine requires better maintenance, rest and timely overhaul. Same is the matter with our body. Our body also requires all these facilities. How a machine gets out of order? Usually there are three major reasons causing defect in a machine: -
1. Excessive use of machine.
2. Machine is kept idle for a long period.
3. Machine is utilized contrary to its specifications.
These factors make a machine rusty, and soon the machine will become useless. Similarly, it is absolutely necessary for human beings to exercise regularly in order to keep the body strong and healthy.
Excessive work tired us, so we reach home being exhausted and out of sorts. Our body is completely exhausted or at least we are not as fresh as we were in the morning when we left the home. Nevertheless, this fatigue is natural and rest for a night will help to get rid of it. This can be named, as temporary fatigue, elimination of which is comparatively easy.
If we sit idle for long hours even then we feel tiredness and nausea. The people who think that tiredness is only due to hard work are mistaken. As we discuss later, a human body never gets tired due to work rather non-utilization of its organs is one of the real causes of fatigue.
The third reason is wrong utilization. We may understand it with the help of an illustration. You may have noticed that the performance of a machine would be on the higher side if we give rest to the machine with rational intervals. On the contrary, if we use it day and night at the same speed, without giving it rest, it will be ruined at some point of time, much prior to its normal life.
The most important thing is that if we want that some parts of the machine would move while the others remain idle, malpractice is a must. You may review your daily utilization of your body organs in the light of the aforesaid illustration.
In ancient times men used to live in jungles and he had to rely on his body strength to get food. Terrors of beasts, thunderstorm, rain, and fear of hot and cool weather had made him energetic but with the passage of time human beings get civilized. Progress of science makes him lethargic. Just think of Air Conditioner, deep freezers, washing machines, and other electronic appliances. All these appliances are to facilitate us and restrain us to move enthusiastically and energetically.
Thanks to diversification of job humans have to wok in specific sphere of life. Today, the peasant does only farming and a factory worker does only labor. A clerk goes to office early in the morning to perform table work and come back home after sunset. He has to utilize his hands, mind and sight. A hawker wanders whole day in the street carrying a basket over his head and a housewife remained busy all the time in kitchen, cleaning home, washing cloths and taking care of children. The Almighty has given them the same organs and complexion but all of them could utilize only some organs of their body while others remain idle. For instance, a clerk just utilizes his hands, mind and eyesight. A Peasant utilizes those parts of body, which are necessary for farming. The utilization of organs of a hawker’s body is also limited. Housewives have to bend to accomplish their job, which cause them backache.
The arms of the blacksmith are large and strong because he constantly uses it. The legs of the hill coolies are large and powerful because they walk so hard. On the contrary, the arms, legs and the whole body of many students and businessmen are small and weak because they sit much of the time and do not utilize their arms and legs significantly. It is another misconception that educated and high profiled people should not involve in laborious work. This is a great mistake. Muscular work is dignified and honored. Almighty says in his Holly Book “Laborer is My friend”. Many Prophets earned their livings by doing labor.
The technique of classification of work, though helpful in social and economic development of human being, has indeed played a pivotal role in spoiling human health. The above illustration shows that human beings engage in a particular field have to overburden some parts of their body while the others remain idle. Let’s recall the illustration of a machine where we reached to the conclusion that if there is any inconsistency in the utilization of components of a machine, it is natural that the situation would worsen. This is the main reason of our tiredness. Interestingly, few scientists defined fatigue as a strength, which we could not discharge. This book is written to base this ideology.
The reasons of fatigue could either be mental or physical but we cannot draw a line between them because relationship of mind and body is very deep and inseparable. So, in this book, first we discuss physical fatigue at length and later we would try to understand mental fatigue.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
What is meant for 'Fatigue'?
According to the dictionary meaning fatigue can be defined as weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength, get tired of something or somebody, temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work etc. Fatigue though a common health complaint is one of the hardest terms to define, and a symptom of many different conditions. Desire to sleep may be a symptom and cure of fatigue at the same time. Often a comfortable sleep is enough cure of fatigue but imagine you arrive home after performing hard physical and mental exhaustion. You are totally fatigued but your wife and children and other loved ones expect you to given some time to them. It is a very awful situation when you want rest while your family on the contrary requires you to given them sometime. This means that after spending long eight hours or so of mental and physical exertion it is still not the end of your duties. You still have to be active and energetic, but your body is not in harmony with your mind. You want to join your loved ones and cheer these lovely moments but your body is not complying the directions of mind.
So what is the solution? In my opinion best way to cope with such situation is to beg a pardon for half an hour or so and follow the light exercises advised in this book, which will make you fresh.
Fatigue is common problem and in some cases may be intense enough to spoil your normal life. Surprisingly, physical causes of this problem are attributed 20-60%, while emotional causes are 40-80%.
Fatigue may also result in anxiety, insomnia, forgetfulness, neck discomfort, gastrointestinal disorders, hair loss and diminished sex drive. In fatigue one feels "dissatisfied" or "deeply dissatisfied" with his physical and mental condition.Though it is just natural that we get tired after hard work irrespective of the fact that it is of physical or mental nature, it is very important to get out of such state as early as possible to normalize our physical and mental health and to gear up the affairs of our daily life. It may be of your interest that fatigue is the number one impediment to better sex. While answering to the question; “in your own life what do you feel are the biggest barriers in great sex”, 57% of men attributed “fatigue” as the biggest impediment to better sex. So, for a happy and joyful life it is imperative to get rid of this undesirable state of mind and body.
So what is the solution? In my opinion best way to cope with such situation is to beg a pardon for half an hour or so and follow the light exercises advised in this book, which will make you fresh.
Fatigue is common problem and in some cases may be intense enough to spoil your normal life. Surprisingly, physical causes of this problem are attributed 20-60%, while emotional causes are 40-80%.
Fatigue may also result in anxiety, insomnia, forgetfulness, neck discomfort, gastrointestinal disorders, hair loss and diminished sex drive. In fatigue one feels "dissatisfied" or "deeply dissatisfied" with his physical and mental condition.Though it is just natural that we get tired after hard work irrespective of the fact that it is of physical or mental nature, it is very important to get out of such state as early as possible to normalize our physical and mental health and to gear up the affairs of our daily life. It may be of your interest that fatigue is the number one impediment to better sex. While answering to the question; “in your own life what do you feel are the biggest barriers in great sex”, 57% of men attributed “fatigue” as the biggest impediment to better sex. So, for a happy and joyful life it is imperative to get rid of this undesirable state of mind and body.
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