7 ways to avoid drowning in negative

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1. Change the body language

Pay attention to your body when you're covered with negative emotions. Look at his face: omitted corners of his mouth, his brow furrowed. How do you hold back? Slouch?

If you have in mind a hotbed of negative thoughts, the body behaves accordingly. And when these thoughts become permanent, it becomes accustomed to this state. You've probably seen people with a mask of contempt or anger on his face, which is stored in any situation.

It acts in the opposite direction: constricted posture and frown not create a better mood. So, your first step to get rid of bad thoughts will change poses and facial expressions. Straighten your back and straighten shoulders. Feel where the accumulated tension and relax, smile in the body. After a few moments, you will feel that the emotional background changes.

2. Discuss your feelings

Some people are all in a row to talk about their problems and even relish it. Others hold it all inside until the last, and then get a nervous breakdown.

If you have any negative emotions that do not pass, try to tell loved ones. couching irritation in a word, gives you the emotions form and see them in the proper perspective. After the call, you will be surprised how it was silly to worry about voiced and negativity will disappear.

3. Stop the flow of thoughts

If in your mind for a moment sweeps a thousand thoughts, it is difficult to decide something for myself and to somehow control it. If stuck on the negative, try just one minute in general about anything not to think. Paying attention to what's going on in your head and what there thoughts dominate, you can change the situation.

4. reword

It's amazing how small changes in the wording of the changes the tone of the whole phrase or thought. Compare: "I have a difficult time in life, there is a problem" and "I have a period of change in my life, looking for the best solutions." Initial data have not changed, just the problem of the name change. But who's to say that's not true?

5. Engage in creative

When you are attacked by negative thoughts, you can spend a little time to work. It works just like a conversation, with the exception that will not have anyone to get their problems. You can do whatever you want: write prose or poetry, draw a pencil or paints. Dance, finally.

splash of emotions through art - a kind of art therapy, which will not only provide a discharge, but also lift your spirits. Negative thoughts will pass through you, will be embodied in the form and remain in it, and not in your head.

6. Stroll

Often it seems that our own head - it is the only source of negativity. Most often it is, but it happens in a different way. If you are surrounded by toxic people, such as in a family where everyone constantly quarreling and blamed each other, or at work, where all of the nerves, of the negative half may be due to their mood.

If you are not a guru, it is unlikely that you will get rid of heavy thoughts, being in that environment. Therefore, if possible, leave it to settle down. Go take a walk or go anywhere: to the exhibition, in a favorite cafe, cinema - it will help to find peace of mind.

7. Make a list of thanks

Sometimes we forget about all the good things in our lives. It seems that there is no way on all fronts and a total failure. So, sitting in a cozy and warm apartment, coming up with a favorite work, people may think that his life - a cesspool, and it is a complete failure. And all because of the coincidence of small troubles for a day or hanging over the soul of the failed project.

To cope with this condition, write down all the good things in your life, something for which you thank. For example: "I am grateful for your appearance and health", "I'm grateful for a loving and loved ones," "I am grateful for true friends."

Look at the resulting list and see for yourself: small troubles can not outweigh it.