How to get rid of Emotional Crisis?
In my last blog I have described my view on what is emotional crisis? How does
it happen? What are the effects of Emotional Crisis? You can read about it
from this link – Crisis - You can get rid of..
Now that we know the importance of dealing with Emotional
Crisis I would like to bring you few points to work on. Some of them may sound
stupid and ridiculous but trust me bring them to part of your life and you
shall see the sun shine entering your life.
Solutions of Emotional Crisis are quiet very simple as I
have said earlier and you may ignore them but I would request you to follow
them for just 1 month and observe the change. The Solutions are as mentioned
below:
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1)
Forgive Yourself and Forgive Others:
1st and most important rule to start over is to forgive your-self
and forgive others. In today’s world what hauls all the people are
self-criticism, cursing oneself and grief. Why do we criticize ourselves or
curse ourselves? When we have repeated failures and mistake our loved one and
other people criticize us with a good intention to help us realize our mistake
and improve. But instead of realizing the mistake, most of us take it in a
wrong way and consider ourselves good for nothing and a bad person. We start
to criticize ourselves for being such a waste. Grief of having to be such a
bad person hauls the person till grave.
The only way to come out of this is to forgive yourself. Forgive others who
spoke those words to you their intentions was only to help you grow. You have
to understand the right way to perform better, the way that suits you. Find
those distractions and caste them away, rather I would suggest to utilizes
them as rewards for your hard work. For example when I was a school going kid
I had a rough time with my studies. I was very fond of watching television and
that being a distraction I could never focus on my studies. So my academic
results were never appreciable. Some time I even struggled to clear my final
exams to qualify for next year. So I was at times punished by my parents and
at one particular time even I believed that I am good for nothing. Similarly
it is a problem for many of us and I would like to help them. The solution is
to identify the distraction or the root cause of failure and then converting
your distraction into your motivation. For example since I am addicted to
watching television I cannot simply turn away from watching TV. Instead What I
can do is set a goal of today’s work and declare that once I am done with
today’s work only then I will watch TV. Or fix a certain amount of time to
watch television before you start your work and then you finish the work and
later you are free to do whatever you wish. This way you will be
self-motivated to finish the work. You will ultimately use your short falls as
a tool and power to grow and improve yourself. It’s never too late to start
again, start with forgiving yourself for your past behavior and methods of
working and also forgive others as their intentions were only to improve you.
Find your distractions and use them as power to grow.
2)
Don’t fight back the negative thoughts:
It is known to everyone that the more you try to fight or avoid the negative
thoughts the more your mind will be focused on them and will not help you come
out of them instead you will end up doing more of what you wanted to avoid.
That feeling of failure will destroy you further.
The Best way is to accept the negative thoughts and guide your mind to correct
path. For example say I am in office and I have a thought of not working
today. So rather than forcing yourself to work and cursing yourself for such a
lazy and irresponsible attitude what you can do is just take a short
break for cup of coffee or small dose of sweet. This shall
lift your spirit up for few more hours of the day. Or you can do is put a goal
to finish the most urgent work and then you will throw yourself a small treat.
This will be a more productive way of improving yourself while handling
negative thoughts.
3)
Give a Treat to Yourself :
Whenever you attain success or achieve something your Family, Friends and
colleagues asks for a treat. But the actual person who deserves a treat is you
– yourself. Always remember to share your happiness with others and yourself.
We never ask ourselves for a treat. So for now on make a rule to treat
yourself for all the good reasons you have. Treat need not be a big feast but
even a small chocolate or may be an ice cream shall do the trick for you. If
the reason is big enough for a big bash then why not go for it.
Self-appreciation will help you come out of self -pity, will help your mind to
record your good work. Try to appreciate the efforts you put to keep things on
place instead of simply celebrating the rank. If you keep celebrating the
efforts you will start to enjoy the process and ultimately you will do the
things with your heart and outcome will come the way you want.
4)
Smile at yourself (this one is my best way, please try it):
Smile while you stand in front of a mirror, I know it sounds stupid and if
others see you doing this I am sure they are gonna laugh at you. But trust me
this really works. See our mind records what we see? What we feel? Our mind
has recorded for a long time to be sad and frustrated. But when we start to
smile at ourselves our mind starts to record that even you smile and slowly
you’ll see magic happening in your life. To add more to this appreciate what’s
good in you while you stand in front of the mirror and say that you are proud
of your efforts to improve yourself.
5)
LOL :
You got it – Laugh out louder. These day’s people use them to express that
they can’t control their laughter only on social messaging apps. But in
reality they are only forcing a smile on their face. If you could actually
laugh out louder then you will definitely turn the stone. Laughter helps your
mind to release positive hormones and your body will start to recover from all
mental and physical illness. Power of resonance: your laughter will be like
hitting a stone in a still lake likewise a loud laughter will bring the waves
to change of mental condition and repeated act will definitely break the
ice.
6) Make fun of Yourself and Enjoy it :
First understand why yourself, if you make fun of others then you may upset a friend or relative not everyone take it as a joke. Instead if you make fun of yourself you are definitely not gonna hurt anyone else. Secondly our mind filled with anger, worries, fear and ego. When we make fun of ourselves the first thing that leaves our mind is Ego. When you laugh at yourself all the anger, worries and fear that had accumulated within will start to melt away slowly. Soon you will realize the magic, your body will start responding to medicine you have been taking and at certain stage you will no longer need medicines.
7) Joy of Giving or sharing
There is no other happiness bigger then joy of Giving and sharing. It doesn't require you to give away everything you have. Actually giving or sharing the small things with your loved ones or others who are in need gives you the moment to experience true Joy, Love and Happiness. I have a small article on this you can read about it by clicking this link Fat Shiny Nose
There are other methods as well like exercising in gym or may be a light walk
in lawn, Meditation is a very good option as well. If your body supports your
childishness within then sporting is ice breaking. Entertainment and amusement
methods can be mood lifting for short while but supportive in building the
momentum in improving your mental health.
Hope I can be of any help to you. There is an article on Mental pollution by
Megha Jain I can be of some more light to understand and improve mental
health, you can refer it by clicking this link Mental Pollution
Thank You.