A Yogic Approach to Beating Job Search Burnout

A Yogic Approach to Beating Job Search Burnout A Yogic Approach to Beating Job Search Burnout A long job search can be a real and ongoing drain on your energy reserves. If you’ve been in the job market for a while and are feeling a bit depleted, consider practicing a little bit of yoga to replenish your energy reservoir and beat job search burnout. Take a big inhale, then breathe out completely as you consider all the fantastic ways yoga can help you meet your job search objectives, re-ignite your spirits, and strengthen your resolve. If you practice yoga, you’re probably well aware of the benefits of being flexible in both mind and  body. If you’re not a yoga practitioner, you’re in for a potentially great awakening to the ways that yoga can help you find flexible work and prevent job search burnout. Even practicing just a few yoga poses to improve your workday can reap big benefits in your job search. A regular yoga practice can help you push through the low periods, the dry spells, and the rejection that often comes with looking for purposeful work. Job search burnout holds the potential to bring your job search efforts to a screeching halt. Take a few cues from yoga to help prevent job search burnout: 1. Take a self-assessment. A job search offers great opportunities to take stock, check out what you’ve achieved so far, and envision what’s next in your career. It’s the equivalent of what you may experience during a yoga practice: going inside, making an assessment, and setting an intention. In your job search, your intention could be your job search goals. It’s still early in the year; take time now and target career goals to set for yourself this year. 2. Make space for something new. No doubt about it, a job search can focus our attention like a laser on shedding the old and embracing the new. It’s important not to put too much emphasis on finding the “absolutely perfect” job or to raise unrealistic expectations about where you “should” be at this point on your career path. Instead, strive for a healthy balance between sthira (the Sanskrit word for effort) and sukha  (which means ease). 3. Let go of negativity. Isn’t it great to think about the good that awaits you, rather than anticipating the opposite? A great way to have a positive job search is to make an effort to ditch negativity and self-doubt. Simply turning your thought pattern around can put you on a direct path toward reaching goals that are significant to you, in your career and  in your personal life. 4. Prepare for a positive transition. Survey says: flexible work and happiness go hand-in-glove! What survey, you ask? Why, our very own survey, where answers provided by more than 2,000 respondents showed that flexible jobs can help improve your love life, health, and happiness. Moving toward happiness is a positively yogic approach (pun intended!) that can be really motivating and help you push through any down periods in your search for flexible work. 5. Roll out your yoga mat- and get on it. Nothing beats rolling out your yoga mat and getting on it, whether for a few quick practices you can do every day  or a practice of an hour or more. As you move through asanas, or poses, you may experience a greater sense of calm, focus, and pranic energy that you can draw on to energize not only your job search, but other aspects of your life. Readers, are you a job seeker who practices yoga? Has yoga helped you beat job search burnout? Tell us how in the comments section below!