There are various ways to get rid of negative feelings but different people find different exercises useful. The best ones, in my believe, are the ones which require least of time and give the best of the result. However, these are never the ones you can easily stumble upon on the internet.
The exercise I am going to describe here might help you to deal with stress, anxiety and depression. The idea of this exercise is based on the believe that positive thinking naturally attracts positive things. In this way it is bit similar to a solution focused therapy then negative thoughts and facts are eliminated from the process. But lets come back to positive thinking. The idea of the subconscious power and the believe that we have energy to influence people and things around us makes this exercise so powerful. People say: ‘what goes around comes around’. Therefore, you can imagine your energy going all the time in circles and getting directly influenced by new energy flows. So if you think negative – that is what’s going to come back to you at the end.
The exercise itself is very simple and will take not more than 20 minutes of your time. You need to be sure that in order to do this exercise you not necessarily need to be already depressed or generally unhappy. This exercise was with me during the best times same as the worst as it can makes you bad times better and the good ones even more amazing.
All you need is an empty notebook. It does not matter what size, color or pattern it is. Just use the one you like and will not mind to hold in hands every day for the following month. The length of the exercise is a month, after you should do a brake but the results will be already seen in a week. Here is the detailed plan of the exercise:
1. Every morning open you notebook’s different page.
2. In the morning on the left page of the notebook write your expectations of the day, one after the other in different lines. The more concrete they are the better.
3. In the evening you have to complete the right page of the day in your notebook. At the top right corner write the date. Also at the top write 3 positive adjectives about yourself. ( I am ….., …… and …….)
4. On the same page write positive things that happened to you that day. It can be anything: maybe the unexpected and good weather made your day? was the sun shining to your face than you walked home from work? did you have nice lunch? did the child on the street smile to you? it can be absolutely anything, even the smallest details that made you happy at least for a second that day.
5. On the left page tick the expectations which became true.
Do this every day for a month and you will see that every day you tick more and more expectations and what a power a positive thinking has. A week after you read this post, come back, and share your experience. Encourage and motivate the others.
To see how your notebook should be filled, look down on the link below ,-)
