Why does life seem so overwhelming sometimes? When you are feeling overwhelmed, it is life trying to make you evolve to a higher level of being and consciousness. The Universe is trying to bring up everything that lies deep down within us. Everything we fear and have stored away deep down in the dungeons of our unconscious mind is holding us back from our evolution to a higher level of consciousness. Every time something tries to come up to the surface to be let go of, we run to this substance or that activity in the hope that we can suppress that which we fear. We do not smoke because we are addicted to smoking or we do not overeat because we are hungry, we do these things in an effort to try and shove down suppressed negative energy which we don't want to face.