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[euigorwithyou]

Imagine that there is a big stone in front of you. You want to raise it up and throw it away. But you know that the stone is heavy. So you make a big effort and when you feel that your muscles are full of tension, you throw the stone. Thus, your emotions are trained to produce tensions in your body, necessary to raise the stone.

When the context changes and you switch to mental work, your emotions continue to produce nervous tensions in the body, as if you are going to raise a heavy stone. But any tense muscle is a working muscle. As a result you get tired. Why do we all continue to do this? Well, according to the "change principle", it is difficult for any person to change his old pattern of behavior to the new one.

So the solution is to retrain patiently the person during enough period of time, till it forms a new pattern.
Any time you start to do a mental work, just remind yourself that you don't need to produce tensions in your muscles. Be aware of this while you are carrying out the job. Thus, you will be able to do a tremendous amount of intellectual work without tiring.

[Steven]

Thank you for advice. This is what actually people like yoga do. Our mind controls the entire body. We should realize that. There's no sense to program your brain on hard work, if don't do that the work will be as easy as a piece of cake.

[M.Helen]

I wish everything was so easy...
I get tired anyway. However I believe this is all about training your brain. You should make your brain always take things easily and not to notice their "real size" (i.e. difficulty).

[Lorry]

For me it is very hard to work mentally all the day, after some hours I feel very tired and the only thing that i want is to rest somewhere, at least for 15 minutes. It will be enough for me, i think.

[AndyPon]

I often have a 10-20 minutes rest during the work, because I sit in front of my computer from morning till evening and the work is hard.