16 ways to calm yourself when life is getting tough
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2 min readMay 3, 2023
It’s a nature to get things overloaded sometime but It’s about how we are handling it without making it more complicated. I believe that few of the followings habits may help you to handle/pass your tough time smoothly.
- Walk: Walking helps clear your mind. It offers you a different perspective. Event you can make it more effective by walking with hearing your favourite music or broadcast.
- Indulge: Take a day off to spend a whole day doing exactly what you want.
- Be Generous: Give something to a total stranger. Acts of giving make us feel warm and fuzzy inside. You can really feel it when you start doing it.
- Site in a Strange Place: Sit in a coffee shop or a busy street and soak up your surroundings. You don’t have to talk to people.
- Educate yourself: Research what it is you are experiencing. Arm yourself with knowledge and the resources to tackle the problems head-on.
- Preparation: Write the day’s to-do list the evening before close your day. It will be more effective if you have clear idea that what you are doing to next which will give you peaceful sleep too.
- Strengths: Write down a list of 20 of your strengths. I’m sure, you will be surprised about the list once you are done.
- Keep going forward: Keep taking small steps, no matter what. Being stagnant doesn’t serve you. Keep in your mind that Trying Something Better Than Nothing. Even if you are failing with your tries, you will get experience which will help you to get success.
- Re-visit an old hoppy: If you don’t have one, create one. Capturing a happy moments is a good habit which will give you refreshes whenever you are revisiting those moments.
- Prioritize: Decide what’s important right now. Say no to extra obligations.
- Sleep: Get enough rest Sleep 7–9 hours each night.
- Be silly: Do something that you did as a child. Don’t take like too seriously.
- Cry: Release all that emotion. you will feel better.
- Check your self-talk: Negative self-talk does not serve you. Be positive.
- Journal: Develop a habit of journaling. this will help free your mind.
- Life is a Journey: Remind yourself that life is a journey. Remember that what you are going through is temporary, It will pass.