Overcoming Adversity In Life And Getting Yourself Back Up

For someone who's fallen down into a bout of pain and depression, no matter what the cause, sometimes it's much harder to find your way back up and to continue on. It's one of the biggest mental blocks you can possibly have, one of the biggest monkeys on your back. Even though it might seem bleak and helpless now, there is hope to get back up once life has brought you down...as long as you're willing.

1. Acknowledge That There's A Problem

A big key to helping yourself is to lift your soul above this cloud of desperation that's taken you over. You need to get yourself out of the mindset that you're in and go into the phase of rebuilding. The first thing you need to do when you realize that you're down is to first acknowledge that there's a problem with where you are currently. You feel all this stress and all these bundled up emotions and it's not good for you, it's not good for your health, and it's not going to make your life any easier in the end. Once you can come to that ultimate realization, that's when you can truly begin to move forward.

2. Carefully Approach A New Mindset And Begin Rebuilding

You need to get yourself into a different mindset, which is usually most effective when you surround yourself with positive vibes and things that you love, things that can lift your spirits. You need to distance yourself from all the bad and first focus on the most important thing, building up the good inside you. If you don't feel that there's good in your life, you have to put it there. You need to find a way to get yourself out of the negatives. It doesn't have to be drastic change and it doesn't even have to happen right away, but you do need to ease yourself into some type of change to get yourself out of that bad state of mind. Change is inevitable one way or another, positive or negative. You have to embrace it and try your hardest to steer that change in the right direction, or you'll find yourself terrified of the world around you while you keep falling lower and lower into a deeper depression and a negative place. You never want to leave yourself in a worse place than where you were before. Do something you wouldn't normally do in your routine day. Go outside and get some fresh air, do something that involves physical activity. Put yourself in a completely different environment. You need to add some zest to your day and once your go to sleep at night, rest easy in the idea that you did something poductive today, that you accomplished something no matter how small. You build on those accomplishments and that is the beginning steps to getting yourself back up.

3. Don't Let Yourself Become Frightened, Don't Let This Defeat You.

In a situation where you've tripped over something and you've fallen down on the ground, the first step of action would be to try and sit up. After you get yourself sitting up and you feel stable enough, you then use your own power to stand back up and move along. That's a lot like how life works, it's just like dusting yourself off after a bad fall. We all know that some people aren't as strong as others and they need more help from someone or something else, but sometimes there isn't going to be something else there to help you get back up for one reason or another. The key here's to never let yourself become caught up in fear. Don't become frightened and don't let the situation defeat you and discourage you. You have to pace yourself carefully if you want to better the situation in order to move on a stronger person. You need to keep constantly trying to get yourself back up off the ground. You might fall back down a couple of times or even more times than you can count, but as long as you keep hope in yourself and you keep trying, you'll develop the strength inside yourself eventually to get back up and stay afloat. You've got to truly want it and you've got to keep going. If you feel that you're at a dead end in your life, you've got to get out there and take on new journeys...whether it be to get a job, meeting new people, or volunteering. Do something that feels genuinely different to you.

4. Avoiding The Fall In The Future

You can even pinpoint what exactly caused you to fall down in the first place, and then once you gain the knowledge from overcoming that bad experience, you can prevent it from effecting you again. What's also worth mentioning is that you can help others with this knowledge. Imagine there's water spilled on the floor in your workplace, you walk by without noticing and you slip and you bruise your shoulder from the fall. It catches you off guard and it does hurt pretty bad, but it's just a minor injury in the grand scheme of things. This is a lot like how bad situations can develop in life. You make a mistake or you overlook something and then you find yourself in some type of tight spot, but you do have the patience and the strength to get yourself out of it if you're truly willing. With the experience you just had, you can use the knowledge you gained to help others not make the same mistake you just made. Think of it as putting out a Wet Floor sign for other unsuspecting people who could happen to walk by that wet floor, preventing them from going through the pain that you just went through. You know how much it hurt just a second ago, so you want to prevent them from feeling the exact same things you felt. It's only natural. If you've already overcome a tough spot in your life, I recommend that you put out that metaphorical Wet Floor sign and let people know that they are in danger of making the same mistakes. Maybe you can change their lives for the better and prevent more pain in the world.

5. The Place We All Need To Be In Someday

In the end of it all, I feel personally that this is a place we all can (and need to) arrive at someday, where we have the strength to push on through the tough times in life while also supporting one another when needed. You could end up being on both sides of the situation at different times in your life, the one hurting on the ground or the one offering out their hand to help someone else back up from that bad fall. The key to getting back up is patience and constant effort no matter what may come your way. You need to surround yourself with positivity, bring more good into your life, and then begin the journey to rebuild yourself and take a step to a new day, to embrace the change. You cannot let these bad circumstances defeat you and hold you back from doing what you want in life. In the end, I say we all need to get back up together so we can live more fulfilling lives and accomplish much more than we did when we were in darker days and darker times, because through it all...that's a much better world to live in.

Overcoming Adversity In Life And Getting Yourself Back Up.