Quite often in the stories of clients I hear the phrase: “I don’t feel the taste of life.” This is not stated as a problem, but more often goes in the background when talking about another problem. It is known that a client comes to a psychologist not only with a problem, but also with a solution. And the task of a psychologist is to create such an atmosphere, such a space, such communication, when a person can separate the desire in the cauldron of his thoughts, see the problem that prevents the desire from being realized, and the solution.
So, by solving many issues, the “feeling of the taste” of life is just that.
To feel is about the need to restore contact with your emotions, feelings. Taste is a sensation, a signal from the body. “To taste” is also about connecting thoughts, emotions and body.
Surely you have heard the phrase: "There is no life in it" or "It is empty, lifeless." What do these phrases mean? From physics we know about the Law of Conservation of Energy and that energy exists in the form of motion. If primitive, what does not move - stagnates and begins to smell. Energy cannot be at rest, that is the law. If it does not move towards creation, then it begins to move towards destruction.
Taste of life and your age
Thus, in order to feel the taste of life, to regain interest in life, you need to figure out where your life energy is moving and, if necessary, direct its flow in a constructive direction. When people ask me: “How to restore interest in life after 30 years?”, “How to restore interest in life after 40 years?”, “How to restore interest in life after 50 years?”, I answer that age does not matter. You need to figure out where the life force, energy is flowing or where it is blocked.
Negative thoughts and words lead to energy leakage. If you are honest with yourself, you can inspect your thoughts and words and begin to replace negative thoughts with positive ones. For example, instead of complaining about health and savoring the topics of illness, one can talk about healthy way life, or at least avoid talking about illness. If the state of health is not yet very good, you can answer the question about how you feel: “I don’t feel very well.” Notice the difference - "bad" and "not very good". Positive change will begin the moment you stop expressing negative thoughts.
Energy blocks are formed when emotions, feelings are not lived through (they arose, but for some reason did not find a way out). These blocks (clips) are visible even visually in the body. It is not so easy to understand on your own, to separate one feeling from another, to determine to whom the emotion is directed. In psychological consultations, I help to determine where life energy is blocked, remove blocks and allow energy to flow freely, easily, towards constructive changes, allowing you to regain balance in life and experience different feelings, including interest and joy.
The state of fullness and emptiness is affected by awareness, integrity, living own life. Do you know that when you realize YOUR desires and live YOUR life, you are filled, you receive additional energy from outside, high-quality and powerful energy, and when you realize other people's desires, do not understand yourself and your needs, live someone else's life, you spend and drain your energy. You have to work very hard to produce more energy, but it is spent again. Hence the apathy, depression, a sense of futility. Someone may say: “This is selfishness. But what about mercy, helping loved ones, etc.? Good deeds can be done both from a state of fullness and love (I want and can do this), or from a lack and a feeling of pity (I must). I am not advocating that good deeds be abandoned. Mercy remains mercy, no matter what state it comes from. But doing good deeds from a state of fullness is much more effective, more pleasant, more useful. Then this activity itself turns into an inexhaustible source of energy. In general, when a person gives up his own desires and lives a “non-own” life, he always has excuses and so-called secondary benefits. After all, in fact, admitting to yourself that you betrayed yourself all your life is not so easy. For example, it might look like this: "I wanted to be an actress, but my own illness (son's alcoholism, volunteering, etc.) took up all my time, there was no time for that." There is a lot of slyness in this phrase and cause and effect are mixed up in places. True desires can be hidden from the person himself. I wrote about some of the reasons in articles,. At certain periods of life, contact with desires may be lost, as there is a reassessment of values, the old system dies off and a new one is born (article). My main task as a psychologist-consultant is precisely to help you understand yourself, your needs and desires and start living YOUR life.
What to do if life is no longer interesting
To everyone who has become uninteresting in life and has no energy, I offer a few tips on maintaining energy balance. These tips will concern all three of our components - the body, emotions, thoughts. So:
- give up negative statements and learn to give thanks;
- interact more with nature. Anything you like to do is suitable: walking in the park, forest, stroking a cat, walking a dog, watching a stream flow, admiring starry sky etc. Interacting with nature, we find ourselves in a space of smooth lines, which is necessary for the normal movement of energy;
- learn to be calm. In a tense form, we hold back the movement of energy. Really deep peace can be achieved only by understanding yourself. Knowing yourself step by step, you can notice how anxieties are released, and peace comes in their place.
- get creative. Creativity involves the right hemisphere of the brain, the area of the unconscious. Creativity brings us a double benefit - it fills us with calmness and reveals our inner potential. It's not about doing something professionally. The main thing is to do something with pleasure.
- pamper your body. Our body also has memory and language and is able to interact with emotions and thoughts. If the body is “enough”, it transmits a calm signal to the brain, the thoughts in the head subside, and positive emotions arise.
- expand the boundaries of your knowledge. Direct your energy to the study and knowledge of both the world around us and ourselves. It's so exciting!
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Your psychologist, Larisa Artamonova
Why does the desire to dream and create suddenly disappear? Joy inspires and gives a sense of the fullness of life. But suddenly something breaks - the ion leaves. Do you know the feeling of hopelessness and apathy? To deal with it, you need to understand its true cause.
Well, here are the main reasons:
1. Fatigue.
When a person does not know how and does not want to rest, turns his existence into a continuous race for results, forgets about spiritual things, negative energy accumulates, poisoning his life. It pulls down like a chain and does not allow you to “fly up”.
2. Feeling like an unnecessary person.
This feeling calls into question the value of the individual, its usefulness, the very meaning of existence seems to be a mockery.
3. Obyazalovka.
If a man goes through life, guided only by principles: I must, I must, I am forced, he looks like a barge hauler on the Volga. An “eternal debt” constantly hangs over him, like a huge cobblestone above his head, and makes him unhappy.
4. Aimlessness.
Life is like a tumbleweed: where the wind blows, I move there. Please do not confuse goals with desires. Desires are more mundane. It is normal to have desires - to love, to dress nicely, to earn good money, to have a family, to live in abundance, etc. Their realization ensures the joy of existence, as an individual, as a separate person. Desires are necessary for a person for himself, as ensuring his comfortable and pleasant existence.
The goal is a higher concept, it is connected with the destination. Its meaning is through itself, its mission to make our world a better place, to do something on a global scale, to benefit humanity.
5. Obsession and one-sidedness.
It is good to do what you love and interesting, to be a professional and an expert. But ... one-sidedness does not benefit anyone. For example, if a scientist deals only with formulas and struggles with some task for many years, without getting up from the table for days, other aspects of his life suffer: relationships, physical health, social adaptation.
6. Inability to enjoy the little things.
Many people imagine a happy existence as a constantly erupting volcano of passions, emotions, extraordinary events. And the joy of life, it is in every moment, in every breath, in the clouds floating across the sky, in the realization that there is a person who will always listen to you, understand, keep silent for the company, even if he is far away.
7. Monotony of existence.
When everything in life is well and has been rolling along the planned rails for a long time, boredom sets in, interest in life is lost. This is stagnation.
Any business, any relationship and our entire existence is a process. What is a process? Traffic. Change. Growth. If these parameters are missing, the process stops, life stops, death occurs. Therefore, often the loss of interest in life leads to depression and is one of its signs.
8. Setting a big goal and contemplating it in all overwhelming grandeur.
When there is a global goal, its scale may seem overwhelming and unrealistic to our consciousness. There is fear, a feeling of powerlessness and meaninglessness of existence. Dead end.
9. Desocialization.
A person who has little contact with people in life experiences an acute deficit in recognizing himself as a social being. Like it or not, but we live in a society, we need it, we need live human communication. This hunger cannot be satisfied. Not music, not games, not books, not anything else.
10. Blocking of feelings - apathy.
A person has no desires, no interest, no joy. This mechanism, as a defense, includes our psyche in order not to experience negative feelings and emotions.
But when negative emotions are blocked, the flow of positive feelings (joy, delight, interest) is also blocked. Usually this happens when a person does not even want to admit to himself unpleasant feelings - dislike for parents, spouse, children, himself.
How to find the joy of life again?
1. Start doing.
The more you do nothing, the more you don't want to do. Do it to get tired. Strain. Program yourself like an automaton, like a robot. Act without pause. Morning. Woke up. Washed up. Charger. Breakfast. Clean snow. Write a dissertation. Develop a project. Learn English. Make up a book. Dinner. Listen to music. Collect motorcycle. Change site. Plow the land. To plant flowers. Clean the flat. Read a book. Walk. Dinner. Watch movie. Write a letter to parents. Paint. To knit. Build a model aircraft. Sleep.
2. Go to an orphanage, a baby home, a boarding school for the disabled and the elderly.
3. Take care of your body.
Start running in the morning, sign up for dancing, a fitness club, a pool, a massage.
Do something that is unusual for you, that is not in your daily routine. Soul and body are connected. If the soul suffers, you can help it by working first with the body.
4. Imagine that this is the last day of your life or the last minute.
A person who has a gun pointed to his head hardly thinks that life is not interesting. Awareness of our mortality helps us to appreciate life more and be aware of every moment.
5. Stop, give yourself a rest.
To relax. Meditate. Get out into nature. Meet the dawn. Sit by the fire, contemplating the fire. Watch the flowing water. Listen to yourself, your soul. Recall good moments of your life, to feel them again. Reread your success diary.
6. Find or remember your own.
Remember your dreams, scroll the tape into the past, find those moments when life pleased, lit, was filled with meaning, find out when changes occurred, when you deviated from your path, your destiny. Find out how it happened and why. Then come back to that point and change, rewrite the past.
After that, live in harmony with your own soul, check with it. The cure for depression is in our own soul.
7. Set yourself a high goal.
Create a crisis for yourself. Translated, the word "crisis" means "danger" or "chance". So create yourself a new chance to change, grow, climb a step higher. Get started! In the process, drive, interest, a taste for life will appear.
8. Learn the "art of small steps."
Got a big goal? Excellent! So that it does not crush you, break it into stages, divide the stages into blocks, paint the blocks in steps. And go! Do!
9. Go outside and smile at everyone.
Make new friends. Recall forgotten friends, arrange a meeting with them. Be open to new contacts, suggestions and ideas, see opportunities and say “yes!” to them.
10. Laugh more.
Get started. Make a list and watch comedies, funny positive films every day. It works!
Smile, be happy, be happy and enjoy life!
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In the modern rhythm of life, there is often not enough time for anything: neither for your favorite hobby, nor for walks before going to bed, nor for words of love to each other. Not enough time to live. slow life- a movement that has existed for more than a quarter of a century, the main idea of which is a lifestyle without fuss.
1. Alone with nature
Nature is a source of energy, harmony and beauty. Being in tune with nature, a person forgets about his problems, learns to listen to his heart. Try at least sometimes to look at the stars, or meet the dawn on the river bank, or admire the flight of a bird. These moments will become the decoration of your life.
2. Love the silence
3. Evenly distribute work
The main thing here is the consistent execution of cases whether it be household chores or work assignments. Even if there are too many of them, focus your attention on one of them, and until you complete it, do not be distracted by others. Otherwise, you will not have time to do anything and lose the desire to do anything at all! Work should bring joy, this will save your time and energy.
4. Do what you love
As you read this paragraph, you may be thinking about creative fulfillment. Everyone has the gift of creativity, but not everyone notices it and tries to develop it. In order to understand what the soul lies in, one must take the time to try different possibilities.. It can be anything: drawing, planting flowers, modeling, writing poetry or playing with children. And when you do what you love, isn't that true happiness?
5. Moderately Attend Events
In the desire to diversify your life, you often get an overload from the impressions received: in the morning to the exhibition, then to the attractions, in the afternoon to the cinema, and in the evening to the theater. Everything is mixed up, and there is no way to understand and fully live this or that information. If you focus on one thing, then the quality of the experience will be completely different. The exhibition can inspire your own creativity, the attractions will leave you feeling breathtaking for the whole day, and the cinema or theater will encourage you to think about the idea of the plot or about your own life.
6. Communicate live
7. Feel the taste of what you eat
This is a special relationship to food, which is manifested in the measured execution of the entire process - from cooking to eating. In search of products, do not run into the first store you come across on the way home, it is better to set aside time for such purchases on the weekend. Come to the market, choose all the freshest and most vitamin, think over the menu, put on pleasant music and feel like a chef in a good restaurant. After everything is ready, slowly enjoy every bite
8. Rest mindfully
You worked all year, and now a happy opportunity has presented itself - a last-minute voucher "5 countries in 5 days" with visits to all museums and attractions ... After such a vacation, you need to take another month to recuperate. Do not chase a lot of new experiences, enjoy every moment, calmly look at everything around, meet new people, communicate. You can feel full simply from a walk along the promenade or from delicious coffee in a street restaurant.
9. Easy unpredictability
Sometimes you need to allow yourself to be spontaneous and not make any plans, but just follow your mood.
10. Learn from young children
We all come from childhood, and it has not gone anywhere, but continues to live inside of us. Communicating with children, watching them, at some point we can look at the world with their eyes, without lived experience and prejudices. Children are not in a hurry, they live in the present, and this "here and now" is the whole point! Give yourself permission to be a child sometimes.
When the world turns gray and indifference overshadows all feelings, the surest way out is to find something to your liking.
Why does the desire to dream and create suddenly disappear?
Joy inspires and gives a sense of the fullness of life. But suddenly something breaks - and she leaves. Do you know the feeling of hopelessness and apathy? To deal with it, you need to understand its true cause.
Fatigue is the simplest and most common reason that the world ceases to be enjoyable. Feelings are dulled, everything seems gray and monotonous. And the only recipe this case- how to rest.
Sometimes it seems to us that we live a very boring life. Here, artists (showmen, politicians, journalists ...) have an interesting and eventful life, not like mine, we think. The paradox is that writers, artists, actors, and pop stars are all equally tired of what they do every day. Whoever you are, from time to time you need to break out of everyday reality and change the picture. Take a vacation and go away - to another city, another country. Free yourself from your usual routine. Breathe in the air of freedom. Learn new things. Often this step is able to restore strength and bring back the joy of each day.
The simplest and most common reason that the world around you ceases to be enjoyable is fatigue. Feelings are dulled, everything seems gray and monotonous. And the only recipe in this case is how to relax.
But it happens that the blues becomes chronic. Complete disappointment, unwillingness to do anything, awareness of the meaninglessness of life - these are the symptoms of this state. We lose joy in one case: when we cannot use life to satisfy our needs, says psychoanalytic therapist Eduard Livinsky. - A person perceives the world through the prism of what he can influence. And if he satisfies other people's desires and sacrifices his own, he feels frustration. And that's how we're raised! You go to work where no one is going to think about your personal needs. You live in a society that is focused on the accumulation of capital, and if you have other values, you have to break yourself. Joy is always the joy of one's own doing, activity for oneself among like-minded people.
6 ways to shake things up and want to live
If everyday life has become insipid, you need to look for a way to diversify them. Just do not sit back: apathy does not go away on its own!
- Go on a trip. Change of environment and new experiences expand the boundaries of perception. All sensations become several times sharper. And there is time to think about what, in fact, is important to you.
- Get a pet. Caring for a small defenseless creature - even a turtle - gives each of us the necessary feeling of being needed. The animal depends entirely on the owner: you will begin to receive joy when you feed it, stroke it, communicate with it.
- Go to church for a service. Even if you are not a religious person, try to stand the service, listen to prayers and understand yourself better. People often find peace and harmony after attending church. It's not even about the ceremony, but about returning to yourself.
- Think of a new hobby. Ask yourself: what is important for you, what have you always wanted to do and what have you denied yourself? And take this step: sign up for a dance or theater studio, start learning professional photography. There is nowhere else to put it off.
- Start a mini-repair at home. At least rearrange the furniture and re-paste the wallpaper. Firstly, you will undoubtedly be distracted, and secondly, transforming and renewing your home, you yourself will want to renew yourself internally.
- Help someone who is in trouble. When we do good, we always feel joy. We are changing, becoming cleaner and brighter. A visit to a sick friend, help for mom, a few kind words neighbor… And maybe volunteer work.
Pamper the body - thaw the soul
Bodily pleasures can be excellent therapy for apathy. To do this, turn ordinary procedures into a pleasant ritual. The simplest things that we often do in a hurry can give moments of genuine joy. For example, peeling: there is so much bliss and sensuality in the treatment of the body with a fragrant scrub! The same can be said about Ayurveda's favorite oiling ritual, for which any slightly warmed oil will do (you can take olive oil and add a few drops of essential oil to your taste). It makes sense to take a course of oil massage or several sessions of stone therapy - massage with heated stones. During such procedures, we focus on our sensations and learn to enjoy touch and tactile contact. The body relaxes, unnecessary thoughts go away along with tension. We take care of ourselves - and this gives us confidence!
There are times when sadness just rolls over. Psychologists advise not to hide from her under fake fun, but to fully experience emotions.
- Listen to yourself
If at this moment you feel sadness and longing, surrender to these difficult feelings in full. You are entitled to them.
- Find the right job
Maybe it's time to watch a sentimental movie or flip through your ten-year-old diary. Or just cry into your pillow. By the way, tears act cleansing.
- Think that it will pass
No matter how bad it is, you should always look for a thread that you can cling to. This thread is our hope for tomorrow, that everything will change for the better and we will be in great shape. Think about the good even in the most difficult periods - and it will certainly happen to you!
Pick up a brush
Express your feelings in creativity and understand the essence of the problem that worries you, gives you the opportunity to art therapy (art healing) - popular in last years method of psychotherapy. Spleen, apathy, lack of interest in life are direct indications for her. The simplest technique is to try to express your emotions in a drawing.
Depict, for example, your anguish, and then your joy - and compare these two pictures, mentally transferring yourself to the field of joy. If you are overwhelmed with negative emotions, you can even create a sculpture from paper, old newspapers, pieces of wallpaper, and then paint it in sunny colors - try to transform the negative into a positive. How good is art therapy? Firstly, you express your emotions, which means that they do not accumulate inside you. Secondly, you pull the problem out and distance yourself from it. And thirdly, the creative process itself is healing, which will capture you entirely! In addition to isotherapy, there are many other techniques: music, dance, fairy tale, photo, game, drama and even sand therapy.
Where to look for life energy
To return the world of color, you need to start doing something. Not for someone else - for yourself. Find the area where your efforts will be fruitless. Seeing the result of your work, you will want to live again!
Work that does not bring joy and serves only to earn money, relationships in which the sharpness of feelings has long been dulled, constant employment and haste, many small household chores ... How to break this vicious circle? You need to find an area where you can fully realize your abilities - and the perception of life will change.
The main task of any of us is to allow our self to do something valuable for ourselves. Therefore, any activity that brings you pleasure can get rid of the blues! The most difficult thing remains: to find something for the soul. The trouble is that often we deactivate our own self so much that it loses the ability to create desires. Psychologists recommend in this case to remember what brought you joy in childhood. Sewing outfits for dolls, creating collages, sculpting, drawing - after all, it was definitely an exciting activity. And then cast aside doubts and false shame (say, I'm no longer a child) and indulge in your favorite business! Even if you don't feel inspired at first.
It is very important not to withdraw into yourself. Find people with similar problems so that you have someone to talk to. Search for those who share your hobbies, since now it is easy to do using the Internet. But communication should not be limited to the virtual world: it is imperative to go out into reality!
Each of us needs to be appreciated and accepted by others. Therefore, find an opportunity to participate in those collective events where your activity will be welcomed! A lonely person can go on a group tour of the city: a friendly atmosphere, an exchange of views - and now you are no longer alone! It is enough for a young mother, who thinks that life is passing her by, to organize a holiday at home, invite friends with children - and she will perk up, advises Eduard Livinsky. - A life without meaning is a sure road to depression.
Set goals for yourself and achieve them, and this activity will bring you out of an emotional stupor. Write down five goals focused on your own needs - what you will do for the soul and good mood.
IMPORTANT! Any communication with children will bring you pleasure and sincere joy if you put aside all business and completely devote some time to the child. Teach him something, discover a new meaning for his favorite activities. Nothing makes us more happy than the success of our children.
Give children joy
The most common cause of apathy and depression is infantilism. A person expects that life will give him all the joys, not wanting to act on his own. Meanwhile, life requires effort, otherwise it turns into a swamp. Look for new meanings of existence for yourself. One of them may be caring for children who have no parents. If you are single and not too happy right now, give some warmth to those who really need it! Coming to the nearest orphanage on a weekend and reading a fairy tale to the kids, talking to older children - this will not require any special costs. But the return can be very strong. You will feel that someone needs you, that someone is happy for you, someone is waiting for you. So, there is a meaning to life!
The Art of Gratitude
Any person feels happy when his efforts are accepted, whether at work, in the family. Imagine that you prepared a delicious dinner, having spent the whole day at the stove, and your relatives ate it with lean faces and did not even thank you - where is there to rejoice? Therefore, at home - in our microcosm, where we ourselves establish orders - we need to cultivate a culture of gratitude.
Teach your children, your husband, and learn to appreciate what you have done for yourself. Say thank you!, feeling this warm feeling inside yourself. And thank life for what it gives you.
Experience difficulties. And with honor to overcome!
Everything is fine, but everything is tired - the spleen of satiety, you can’t say otherwise. She is being treated!
Live in extreme conditions. For example, go camping with tents. The world will turn upside down. You will start to notice things that you didn't notice before. And many problems will be unimportant.
Learn another language. Communication on the courses greatly broadens one's horizons. And the head will be busy - not to apathy.
Start running. At least 3 km per day. It is not easy to break away from the TV - the favorite pastime of all the blues. But what joy you will feel every time after the end of the run! Including the fact that while running, endorphins are released into the bloodstream.
History from life
My niece brought me out of apathy
Two years ago Diana from Poltava (26 years old) was in a serious depression. She, pregnant, was left by a loved one. She lost her child from frustration. And these were not all the trials that fell to her lot!
At first everything went great. Upon learning that I was expecting a child, Denis proposed to me. We had already invited guests to the wedding, when suddenly at night we quarreled over a trifle. And Denis ... disappeared. And I soon ended up in the hospital. The baby was not saved.
I hated men. She lived in chronic apathy. Nothing made me happy. I went to work only because I had to live on something. One day I was walking home tired and thought: I want to go to the hospital with a sore throat. Our negative attitudes come true: I slipped unsuccessfully and ended up in intensive care. I was paralyzed, the doctors said that now I will lie down. But a miracle happened: I got to my feet. I was discharged from the hospital, knowing that for three years I could not get pregnant.
My sister just had a daughter. And she called me to her place in Kyiv.
She offered to change her life and stay with her, help with Karina. At first I refused, and six months later I quit my job and moved in with my sister. At first I was afraid to touch the baby. But soon she easily changed her diapers and could stay with her for the whole day. Communication with this sun energized me. We walked with her for a long time, played, I read books to her. Somehow I caught myself thinking that I want the same miracle! Karina taught me to smile again. The depression has passed. Now I am looking for a job in the capital and I hope to arrange a personal life.
By caring, we find harmony
Caring for plants and animals is a guaranteed way to love the world again. In Haruki Murakami's sensational book "Norwegian Forest", the main character, Naoko, years after the loss of a loved one, finds herself in a closed medical institution in the mountains. People who have lost their taste for life - people like her - are treated there not with medicines, but with simple activities: growing vegetables, floriculture and poultry farming.
Working near the earth, in contact with its creations, watching how sprouts break through, how fruits ripen, a person draws strength and recharges life energy forgetting about their mental traumas. This primitive activity, despite all the achievements of scientific and technological progress, remains the most natural for us. But where can a city dweller look for a vegetable garden or a farm? good way out- growing flowers. This hobby does not require a lot of money, but allows you to fully experience the joy of communicating with nature. Flowers are beautiful, they awaken in us a sense of beauty. Caring for them, we free our heads from annoying thoughts, relax and rest from the hustle and bustle.
Your sources of inspiration
We are sad when we lack something. And we rejoice when we feel connected with the world and other people. And for this you need not to engage in self-digging, but to strive to learn new things, to see the world in all its colors. And feel that you are alive!
Watching nature brings joy, because it is alive. And depression is nothing more than a loss of life dynamics. Therefore, the contemplation of nature restores. You watch how the trees bloom, clouds float, insects swarm, and you understand: life flows regardless of our petty everyday misfortunes. Against this bewitching background, their problems seem insignificant. And nature also instills faith that you can do something as important and natural as a blossoming flower or a bee carrying nectar.
Art inspires and demonstrates the diversity of life, showing that not everything around us is gray and monotonous. And it also allows you to have your own emotions, pushing us to feel, experience, catch fire. Indeed, in essence, art is emotions poured into sounds, colors, movements. Depression always starts with fear of your feelings.
Books and films with a positive story, dedicated to overcoming obstacles, instill confidence in one's own strength. If the hero coped with the difficulties, then you can do it too! Joy goes away because we cannot process the situation, we get stuck in it. And someone else's example shows: there is a way out, you have to look for it! And the only question is how to do it. If you can’t find a way out yourself, you should talk with a friend, a psychologist, any person who will help you look at the problem from the outside. And make sure: there is something to rejoice in life!
Beautiful landscapes cause unconscious joy, so use every opportunity to be in nature. Alternate active rest with meditation or contemplation of awakening nature. Rejoice in spring!
4 books that will set you up for positive
- Osho. Hsin Hsin Ming: The Book of Nothing
Our mind creates dreams. To wake up and experience true joy, you need to go beyond the mind. Osho tells how to turn off the stereotypes imposed by culture, free yourself from the need for choice and start living an authentic life.
- Anna Gavalda. Just together
A kind, wise and life-affirming novel about love and how to find joy in everyday life. All the characters, at first lonely, find their happiness at the end of the story. And one of its important components is to help another in difficult times.
- Sue Townsend. The Diaries of Adrian Mole
Incredibly funny book, not leaving the bestseller list, about the adventures of an English teenager prone to blues and who considers himself an intellectual and a talented poet. Sparkling!
- Viktor Frankl. Man in search of meaning
An Austrian psychiatrist describes personal experience survival in a concentration camp and shows that even in the most terrible conditions, you can find an incentive to continue life. A serious book that can turn your worldview upside down.
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