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How to Get Your Joy Back On Faster After Let Down
Feeling a little let down after Thanksgiving? Here’s the trick to getting your joy back on; don’t let the feeling mean anything.
All that planning, preparing, thinking; expectations of a wonderful day, and today you’re waking up wondering why you feel like crap? It’s not just the food overload.
A loved one not behave the way you’d hoped? Part of the meal not taste exactly like you’d planned? Not get the compliments you expected? The people you invited not show up? Were you alone?
I found myself with the let down feeling starting up even before the day was done yesterday; thoughts of “You’re a loser,” “That wasn’t good enough,” and “This meal was shit,” dancing through my head, smashing the sugar plums like Godzilla.
Why oh why do I make this feeling in my hut (heart and gut) mean all those terrible things? Why can’t I let the feeling be what it is without making it mean anything and go on my merry way?
And there, my friends, is the trick to getting your joy back on.
Let the feeling be what it is, and do not, under any circumstances, start to make it mean anything. This is a life-changing mindfulness concept that few of us are quick enough to practice because we’re in a habitual pattern of self-sabotage that has us by the throat.
