I am told I ask a lot of questions. I am naturally inquisitive with a voracious curiousity that would likely kill all 9 lives in a cat, but I also love to learn and I learn by excavating. Furthermore, this excavating leads to connection and human connection is a basic and enormous need for me (well all of us- but me BiG time).
Sometimes I wonder -am I missing something? A strategy, a coping mechanism, a tool, a lesson.
I seek stuff out from others. So today I ask – what do you do when you feel like crap? Not a tummy ache but a heart ache, a lousy mood, or a low or a defeated.
What gets you there? How did you get into it? And how do you cope ? How do you snap out of it?
What do you do when you feel like crap?
I had a crap day Thursday. I felt like I could have cried all day. I didn’t because a) no time and b) I don’t want to give in to it for fear it will eat me alive.
ok I lied- for 4 and 1/2 minutes I threw myself on my bed (Hollywood style?) and cried quickly and a bit messy and then blew my nose and snapped out of it. I need to do this twice a year. A bit of Spring cleaning, I guess.
I know what I do. I try to go over a list of check points that include
1. list-Gratitude for what I have got
2. think-This too shall pass
3. remember-Attitude is 9/10ths of the law so snap out of it
4.declare-I am not dying so it can’t be that bad
5. realize-First world problems -all of them, give your head a shake
6. remind-Tomorrow will be better
7. contemplate-What are the good and deep lessons here so that I can learn from this?
8. excavate- All difficulty has merit, so find it
9.embrace-Some difficulty comes from loving deeply;be thankful for that
What do you do? Give me your list.
I am here on earth to be better at who I am.
Um, you only need a maintenance cry twice a year? I need a weekly weep to keep worries and woes at bay.
yes good, Sara. Very good – sit in it for a bit, right.
I let myself feel it. I recognize that it’s a phase or a slump and I just go with it. I generally cocoon. My friends know when it’s up and they leave me to it. I sulk and cry and then I snap out of it!
Yes the sad movie Maria! It can push you over to have that badly needed good cry!
Watch mindless TV, or a sad movie, so at least then I have an excuse to feel sad.