Visualize -- Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
How do you keep a health-oriented mind set in a fast-paced seemingly out of control world?
You hear a lot these days about depression. Some of the statistics are staggering. The World Health Organization predicts that by the year 2020, depression will be the number two cause of death. Doesn't that just blow you away? Life is challenging. No doubt.
You hear a lot these days about depression. Some of the statistics are staggering. The World Health Organization predicts that by the year 2020, depression will be the number two cause of death. Doesn't that just blow you away? Life is challenging. No doubt.
As lifestyle counselors, we know from direct experience that when bad things happen we often have a choice; one of the many proverbial crossroads of life. We can choose to sink into a funk about it or we can choose to fight our way out which takes inner resilience. Granted there are cases where we may need outside help. But for those times when the choice is clearly our own...let's chose to fight.
Here are some examples of how to fight your way back to happiness — and away from the fridge or worse, harmful substances — following a major challenge.
Visualize — Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
Clearly see yourself successfully landing on the other side. Keep that vision alive by focusing your attention on others who have successfully navigated a similar challenge. Make them your muse.
Clearly see yourself successfully landing on the other side. Keep that vision alive by focusing your attention on others who have successfully navigated a similar challenge. Make them your muse.
Commit to Winning
Summon all your energy around beating the challenge. Avoid energy saps like negative emotions and toxic people who frustrate you further.
Get Support
Find the people, places, ways and practices that will feed you positive energy to keep moving toward your goal of winning. Surround yourself with only positive images including magazines, television programs, news reports, etc.
Keep Starting Over
One our favorite Thoreau quotes is, "Renew thyself everyday. Do it again and again and all over again." Don't let one slip or one bad day cause you to quit or make matters worse. Don't ruminate over missteps. Keep starting over.
Try. Really, try to make yourself feel better. Amazingly and miraculously you will soon be able to talk yourself out of a slump. The positive self-talk will become second nature. It may even extend to other areas of your life. And that's a good thing.
Think good thoughts. Be well.
Posted by Club Member - Lead Researcher at 10/27/2007 3:48 PM 
Categories: Emotional Dimension of Health
Categories: Emotional Dimension of Health
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