Resetting your day – Part 2
In part-1 we saw the reasons for a bad day. In this part, I am presenting you the part of tools to reset your day.
Session 3: Tools to reset your bad day
What is the different tool to reset the bad day?
When our mind is not trained to withstand the shock of the outer world, we try to find out a quick fix to the bad day. Boozing, partying, going to the movies, or going on a small trip are a few examples, but these are not very effective as you need to spend money or time or both. I am listing down some powerful techniques, which will be helpful in resolving any such situations.
Cognitive Therapy:
This therapy is based on changing your inner world to modify your outer world. All the following points secrets happy hormones such as:
- Dopamine. Also known as the “feel-good” hormone, dopamine is a hormone and neurotransmitter that’s an important part of your brain’s reward system. Dopamine is associated with pleasurable sensations, along with learning, memory, motor system function, and more.
- Serotonin. This hormone (and neurotransmitter) helps regulate your mood as well as your sleep, appetite, digestion, learning ability, and memory.
- Oxytocin. Often called the “love hormone,” oxytocin is essential for childbirth, breastfeeding, and strong parent-child bonding. This hormone can also help promote trust, empathy, and bonding in relationships and oxytocin levels generally increase with physical affection like kissing, cuddling, and sex.
- Endorphins. Endorphins are your body’s natural pain reliever, which your body produces in response to stress or discomfort. Endorphin levels also tend to increase when you engage in reward-producing activities, such as eating, working out, or having sex.
The following methods help you come over depression, stress, pessimism.
- Take a small break – When you believe the day is ruined, it is very important to change your belief. You need to take a break. Take a quick shower, go for a quick coffee or tea or small snacks (not always advisable though). Watch your favorite romantic scene or action scene or comedy scene. change your location. Take a quick nap to reduce the irritation and will improve the energy flow in your body. Make sure that you will not take a long nap else that will further disappoint you. Make sure that whatever you are going to do, you always enjoy doing that.
- divert your thoughts: A negative thought brings all kinds of pessimism and distress. Hence you need to divert your thoughts. Sit quietly and think about something which meant a lot to you at some point in time, such as your first kiss, your first romantic date, your honeymoon, the first time when you became father or mother, you cracked some exam which was believed to be very tough, etc.
- show gratitude to someone: Make a gratitude list. Name the persons whom you want to show gratitude, you want to say “Thank You” and for any reason, you could not appreciate him/her in the past. Mention why you want to acknowledge his deeds towards you, be specific as much as possible. This sense of appreciation will take you away in a different world far far away from your current depression. You come out of it very quickly.
- Talk to your childhood friend/mother / Father or any other close relatives or friends: Again this creates a change in your inner world. Trust and affection hormone Oxytocin flows in your bloodstream and it helps hormones like serotonin and dopamine to take charge of your feel-good senses.
