According to the International Lightworkers Association, lightworker syndrome is a common complaint among people who regard themselves as spiritual. Although this is certainly not a term that any medical practitioner would use in a professional sense, lightworker syndrome has some of the traits that would be common to a psychological condition or ailment. Usually, it is used to describe the feeling that spiritual people feel as they broaden their horizons. Sometimes, they feel very connected with the universe and others while, at other times, they feel as though they have no spiritual insight at all. Some lightworkers can feel disheartened as the work they have all this motivation to do is not possible or appears to be ineffective. Acceptance of this situation is often a way of shaking off the effects of the syndrome. Rather than being stuck or regressing in spiritual terms, these feelings are usually a sign of growth in spiritual understanding.