Anyone can have difficulty getting over a bad day, and that day can end up changing throughout the week, which directly affects our mood, which in turn impacts the way we relate to our family and friends.
We can become irascible and negative people, with which you become uncomfortable or tired to communicate. The hardest part of having a bad day is contact with other people.
- On the one hand.
- We have to vent.
- But we don’t want to overwhelm others with our problems.
- Which frustrates us even more.
The conditions of a bad day are innumerable. From a coffee spilled on your shirt we just started an early conversation with your partner.
The work may also have its share of complaints: a mess before its arrival, a near delivery time, a broken machine, an unfortunate comment . . . All these factors, together, directly affect our tranquility and, depending on our level of natural stress. , will cause us to explode at some point.
As we have already said, it is the details that make our day a “bad day”. When we consider that we have a bad day, we do so based on facts or circumstances in which we place our attention, oversizing them; However, these are just details. As we understand that the facts we must consider important are different, we will begin to diminish the relevance of misfortunes.
There are facts and circumstances that deserve our attention, and even our concern, however, there are many others who do not deserve it and who, because of our fixation on them, end up ruining our day and causing a significant emotional imbalance.
On many occasions, and with a mood full of negativity, many of us tend to overestimated the importance of negative events; it’s all based on our list of priorities. Why prioritize something that, when it goes as planned, doesn’t catch our attention?
To prevent this from happening, it’s critical to be clear about what’s important to us, what we want to work properly, and what we don’t want to give up.
In relation to the previous point, at the top of our list of priorities we must include our favorite leisure or activities, which make us happy.
Contributing to good humor will help end negative emotions, whether it’s walking around your favorite place, closing and reading a good book, cooking the recipe you love so much or staying with your favorite person, doing what we love, no matter how small, helps a lot to cheer.
Any type of physical exercise causes our body to release endorphins, happiness hormones that invade us after a good workout.
In addition to helping to secrete this hormone, exercise, especially when directed (as in a gym class), helps us to disconnect, in this way we relax the mind and focus on an activity that absorbs all our attention, leaving aside the fear of the future. that arises from these problems that we anticipate.
Smile is perhaps the most authentic expression of happiness, and there are studies that show that by adopting the characteristic expression of a certain emotion you can achieve an emotional state of the same value as that emotion. we’re happy it makes us smile, and that smile makes us happy.
Studies indicate that a smile causes the brain to generate dopamine, another happiness hormone, to trick our brain into adopting a smile for a few seconds, or half a minute, enough for dopamine to appear. with the help of a pencil to fix the position.
In short, it is important not to get carried away by negative emotions caused by details that lead to what we call “bad days”. There are other parts of our lives that are really negative, and if we let the details influence us, we’re unlikely to put up with the real problems.
Similarly, focusing on the causes of bad days can prevent us from seeing what is positive in our lives.