How to turn a bad day into an OK day in just one day.

You have to be an alien if you have never had a bad day.
Today was one of those days for me.
As soon as I opened my eyes, I knew it was going to hurt.
"Carpe Diem" I tried to cheer myself up. Then I cried.
It was a rough start.
Usually I would act on my blue mood by sitting down to identify my emotions, naming them and getting rid of them.
This time I felt like enjoying my sadness. I´d rather think this too shall pass than rushing it through or forcing it out.
I think it is normal when moving outside your comfort zone, or out of the range of your known abilities to self doubt repeatedly. However, it is a good idea not to linger too much in the delight of being miserable. After all , life is short and we could be missing out or just reading less.
Here are some pieces of advice I found very useful when transforming my bad day into an OK day. I hope you find them useful too.

1. Get yourself going. As soon as I set foot on the floor, I stopped crying, as if my body knew I had something else to do.(I really didn´t)

2.Engage in physical activity. It is my third day swimming, apparently chlorine deals with bad moods as well as with color in clothes.

3. Smile. Again tricking your body into thinking you are in a better mood.

4. Hug your dog (or cat). If you don´t have one, get one. No one should be without a pet.

5. Eat ice cream. Yeso it is self destructive but it got me through what threatened to be a terrible afternoon.


If all fails you can always go back to crying.

Disclaimer :
This is obviously not addressed to you directly. I ran out of ideas but I did not want to leave my blog empty today. It is always good to have these means of connection with my audience and I would not want to waste it. I am beginning to love it.