A Resilience Strategy
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Today I woke up & felt horrible. I had thoughts of despair & an
overall bad experience. I didn’t want to give up. I wanted to
overcome the bad start to my day. So I think the process to pull
myself into a better feeling situation consisted of about 3 parts.
The first is that I processed the thoughts & recognized what I
was concerned about. I then continued to try & let the thoughts
go. They are just thoughts, nothing more & nothing less. The
third step is to reach for better feelings. As I let go of the “bad”
thoughts, I reached for a consistent feeling of “good” thoughts.
It used to be when I had a bad start to a day, it could last the
entire day. I gave up hope of things changing & just struggled
through. I then arrived at an insight, “Just because I have a bad
start to the day, doesn’t mean the entire day has to be bad.” The
day is a series of moments. Each moment has a different feeling
to it, based on the level of consciousness we are experiencing.
As we move through this human experience, we will have bad
times where we struggle. Hopefully, we can practice resilience,
& turn situations around sooner than later. If anything, I am
also encouraging, to not give up. The times where we feel really
angry, sad, or any low emotions, they say, “This too shall pass.”
I find this wisdom to be true. As much as I would like to always
feel good, when I don’t, I can change it.
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