Do not overload yourself

Since about a year I started to live quite a balanced life. Work, family, relaxing in more or less harmony. At least I didn't feel really bad since. Headache became an odd phenomenon.

Few days ago I went to our recently rented country house - place where we do a lot of repairs and other sort of developments. Some of the taking really a lot of time, concentration and energy. I became a good plumber, electrician and gardener within jest two months. I went there in the morning and spent a whole day doing little and big things -plumbing, cutting wires and washing windows. At about 7pm I felt I was really tired and exhausted. I though I would go to a clean room with my yoga mat to do some stretching and relaxation. But suddenly a mysterious force picked me up and put in the bathroom to replace the tap. I felt a second breath and went replacing the tap. This was a bad idea. By 11pm I was more than tired. I couldn't think of anything but taps, pipes and drain. I went to a "clean room" but couldn't relax. I was overloaded. I slept badly. I couldn't go into deep sleep. It was too warm or too cold, too quite and too loud. I woke up with a headache. That day I met my wife and friends and we continued together.. pipes, electricity, windows, carpets.. By lunchtime my headache made me really slow. By 7 pm I felt I can not really work and concentrate anymore. By 9pm I was nearly dead. I could just sit and pray that headache goes away. With difficulty I drove back to the city, unable to support conversation with my friend. After 20 min of warm shower I felt better. By the way I didn't have any food since a lunch time - headache wiped away the appetite. I went to sleep. And this time it was good. Woke up today feeling much better. But the energy I conserved during the night was only enough until lunch time. Then I began to feel week again. I had to sit and relax for some time to continue going. By end of the day I feel myself better and now I'm trying to formulate the outcome out of this interesting experience.

1. The new house absorbs your energy. Strongly. Be careful to spend a lot of your time in new house without a pause.
2. If you feel you are tired, not only physically, but emotionally first of all (when your eyes are tired, when you can't concentrate) - this means you should stop and go relaxing. Ideally you should leave the place where you worked hard to emotionally cut yourself from it. Occupy your thinking with something else, something positive. Or clear your thinking if you can meditate.
3. Don't eat if you feel your body does not want to eat. Digestion takes a great deal of energy and before you take the energy out of what you eat - you will loose the last reserve. Let your body recuperate.