Learning To Deal With Difficult Thoughts And Emotions
Life isn’t all happiness and sunshine. And that’s a good thing. How boring would it be to only have positive experiences? While we don’t like the negative, we sometimes need the negative, the sadness, and the disappointments to balance the happiness. They are what make the happy times stand out and shine all the brighter.
Life isn’t all happiness and sunshine. And that’s a good thing. How boring would it be to only have positive experiences? While we don’t like the negative, we sometimes need the negative, the sadness, and the disappointments to balance the happiness. They are what make the happy times stand out and shine all the brighter.
That being said, negative thoughts, emotions, and the events and people that cause them are part of life. We have to learn to deal with them and make the best of sad situations to live a happy and content life. Today I want to look at a few different ideas and strategies that can help us do just that.
Put Them In Perspective
Before you allow yourself to wallow in sadness, try your best to step back and look at the situation from a different perspective. Get some sleep, go out for a walk, and come back and look at it again. Do your best to see the positive side of things. Yes, there are undeniably sad and bad situations in our lives, but even so, most of them have a little flicker of something good in them as well.
There are also a lot of times and situations where we focus too much on the negativity. A little distance, and a little perspective can show us that it’s not as bad as we originally thought.
Allowing Yourself To Be Sad At Times
There are also times when life just plain sucks. It’s ok to be sad. Don’t feel that you have to be happy 100% of the time. Sometimes the best thing you can do for yourself is to take the time you need to be sad and grieve. There is a lot of healing and coming to terms with things that can only happen when you let the sadness in. Feel it, so you can start to heal and recover. This will allow you to get back to the happier version of yourself.
Look On The Bright Side And Find Your Way Back To Happiness
To make sure that happens and you don’t spiral down into a hole of sadness, despair and depression, you have to reach for a better feeling thought, or the little flicker of light at the end of the tunnel. Look for it, focus on it, and use it to find your way back to happiness. Maybe that little flicker of hope is simply that you’re not feeling quite as sad as you did yesterday. Or maybe it’s a call from a friend, or a neighbor dropping off a card. Grab on to it and use anything good and positive in your life to lead you back.
Here is a little video I did earlier this year, that might help you to reach for a better feeling thought. Reach For A Better Thought Video
Caterina Barregar
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