Struggles often take us by surprise. However, determining healthy paths to move through hardship can help us endure and grow instantaneously.

Here are the five steps that can help

Develop a new narration

When a terrible thing happens, we often replay the event in our heads over and over, reiterating the pain.
The practise of Expressive Writing can drive us forward by helping us gain new observations on the challenges in our lives. It involves free writing continuously for a few minutes on a problem, exploring your profound thoughts and perceptions around it.
Once we’ve analyzed the dark side of an experience, we might want to examine some of its upsides. For example, you might reflect on how arguing with a colleague brought some important topics out into the open, and allowed you to learn one or two about their point of view.

Confront your fears

The Overcoming a fear practice help with everyday fears that get in the way of life, such as the fear of public speaking, heights, or flying. We can’t talk ourselves out of such unease; instead, we have to confront the emotions directly.
The first step is to deliberately, and frequently expose yourself to the thing that scares you. For example, people with a fear of public debate might try communicating more in meetings, then perhaps delivering a toast at a small wedding.

Practice self-compassion

Fears and difficulty can make us feel alone; we wonder why we’re the only ones suffering this way, and what specifically is wrong with us. In these conditions, learning to practise self-compassion and admitting that everyone experiences can be a much gentler and more effective route to healing.
Quiz yourself to spend some moments writing words of perception, acceptance, and compassion toward yourself about a specific trial that you feel ashamed of being shy or not spending enough time with your kids. In the letter, you might note that everyone struggles and that you aren’t entirely responsible for this imperfection; if possible, you could also view constructive ways to improve in the future.

Meditate

Our most painful thoughts are usually about the past or the future: We regret and meditate on things that went wrong. When we pause and bring our concern to the present, we often discover that things are…okay.

Practising mindfulness carries us more and more into the present, and it offers means for dealing with negative emotions when they arise. That way, instead of getting carried away into fear, anger, or despair, we can work through them more deliberately.

Cultivate forgiveness

If keeping a grudge is holding you back, cultivating forgiveness could be valuable to your mental and physical health. If you feel ready to start, it can be a persuasive practice.
If you’re having struggle forgiving, Letting Go of Anger through Empathy is a five-minute forgiveness task that could help you get unstuck. Here, you use a few minutes developing feelings of compassion toward your offender; she, too, is a human being who makes blunders; he, too, has room for growth and healing. Be mindfully conscious of your thoughts and feelings during this process, and notice any areas of struggle.
Stress and struggles come in many modes in life: mishap and shock, fear and shame, betrayals of trust.

Author: whewowin