If you are tired in a way that rest does not touch, the standard advice has already been tried. More sleep, better food, less work — and the exhaustion is still there in the morning.
This video proposes a different explanation, and it is the most immediately usable thing on the channel.
Unnatural fatigue
Martinus' term for it is unnatural fatigue: tiredness that is not proportional to what you have actually done.
The distinction matters. Ordinary tiredness follows expenditure and resolves with rest. This does not, because the drain is not coming from the activity. It is a running cost, paid continuously by something that never switches off.
The conflict underneath
The proposed source is the split described in why the mystery of life is hidden, read here as an energy problem rather than a philosophical one.
The older animal drive is oriented to self-preservation, immediate needs, and defending position. The developing human consciousness wants fairness, connection, empathy and meaning.
Both are active in the same person, and they frequently want incompatible things. That conflict is not occasional. It runs in the background continuously, and holding two opposed positions at once has a cost even when nothing is happening.
The video adds a point worth noticing: modern nervous systems are more sensitive than they used to be — which on this account is a consequence of development rather than a weakness — so the same conflict costs more than it once did.
The expensive states
The most pointed section identifies which inner states are the costly ones, and the list is uncomfortable: victimhood, resentment, self-pity, and justified anger.
The word justified is deliberate and important. The claim is not that these states are unwarranted. You may be entirely right about what happened. The claim is about price: maintaining any of them requires continuous effort, because each is a position that has to be actively held against a competing impulse to let it go.
So the argument is not moral. It is about energy accounting — and it explains why exhaustion can be worst in periods where nothing much is being done, if a great deal is being held.
What is proposed
The path out starts with awareness rather than a technique: seeing which states you are maintaining and what they are costing, before trying to change anything.
That is consistent with how this material handles everything else. Nothing is forbidden, no rule is issued, and the expectation is that behaviour changes when understanding does — the same mechanism as in karma as a teaching process and the case for vegetarian food.
Worth saying plainly: this is not medical advice, and persistent exhaustion has causes that a worldview cannot address. The video is offering an additional explanation for the case where the ordinary ones have been ruled out.
Key ideas
- Unnatural fatigue is tiredness disproportionate to activity, which rest does not resolve.
- The proposed cause is a continuous conflict between the animal drive and developing human consciousness.
- Holding two opposed positions has a running cost even when nothing is happening.
- Victimhood, resentment, self-pity and justified anger are identified as the expensive states.
- The argument is about energy cost rather than morality — you may be right and still be paying for it.
About this article. It summarises the video above from The Eternal World Picture. The writings of Martinus Thomsen are published by the Martinus Institute.
