Are you taking advantage of what the world has to offer or are you stuck inside, comfortable in your everyday life from hibernating in the winter.
Physical activity strengthens your mind and body.
The sun offers natural vitamin D, which we all know improves our mood.
Enjoy your life, don't focus on what you don't have but look at what you do have with pride and happiness.
Cause: You don't feel like you belong or are part of the in-group at work and are unhappy with feelings of alienation, rejection and not being accepted.
Changes You Can Make: Approach someone you feel you can trust and discuss this situation openly to find out if this "rejection" is real or not, and what you may be doing to bring it on or aggravate it.
That will take openness and courage to accept truths that may hurt, but you will be the winner in the long run.
Cause: You are unemployed or in a financial mess.
Changes You Can Make: The hardest part about this cure is that you have to first own the problem.
No matter who pushed you down the hole you are in, nobody else is going to lift you out.
The first two rules are (a) quit waiting for a miracle, and (b) quit digging deeper.
Then look yourself in the mirror and admit frankly why you are in this position.
Finally make a plan to not quit doing what is necessary to reach the surface so you can begin to climb out of the deep whole...
quit spending so much, start saving, network more aggressively, be flexible about what you will do for work, improve your positive attitude no matter how difficult that may be, revise your resume radically.
Cause: You have a legitimate problem and source of real unhappiness, whatever it may be, that nobody else seems to understand.
Changes You Can Make: When this occurs, realize: (a) this problem is all yours to solve (b) It may not be solvable, only manageable (c) It may take the rest of your life to manage.
It is so big that you have to break it down into smaller parts, to work on one by one.
Patience, patience and more patience.
Cause: The sudden and unexpected loss of a loved one.
This can be a seemingly impossible challenge to overcome, especially when it involves a young child or a mate of 50+ years.
This is bringing tears to my eyes.
Changes You Can Make: The only cure for this very legitimate source of unhappiness is the love of God and the compassion of other family and friends.
The next best thing to this needed relief is keeping too busy to think about it-with work, hobbies, activities or volunteer services.
Hopefully enough of us are compassionate where those who need it can receive it.
Cause: You are the victim in a relationship or family involving any of the Three Big A's: Addiction, Adultery or Abuse and feeling very hopeless about the possibility of any happy ending.
Changes You Can Make: This is too close to home to be completely objective, but I sense this can easily translate into a realistic hopeless situation, without a happy ending possible.
This is where you are accepting the unacceptable.
How in the world do you do that? Minute by minute and with prayer for a divine intervention.
Support groups are the practical cure that seems to help.
Acceptance, acceptance, acceptance..
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but many times that is out of reach for the healthiest of us for some strange reason.