Change comes in different forms, it can be a getting a new job, leaving school or even a change in lifestyle due to money constraints but what's important is that we don't dwell in the past and move forward to accept the change .

Accepting Change

Speaking from personal experience dwelling on the past can hinder you from looking forward so it will be best to put your memories away as a part of your life and your new memories as a new part in life.

Dwelling On The Past

To anyone who might have difficulty moving forward use these tips*Try taking small steps , this can be anything from socializing with your colleagues to taking small walks in your neighborhood to get used to your new home .* Try not to remember your old life when doing something routine like remembering how you used to drive an expensive car while taking the morning commute instead try to listen to music on the train or the bus or just listen to a audiobook

Moving Forward

And that's about as much advice as I can give I'm 16 but I faced a lot of changes throughout my life and this book helped me a lot when I was a kid anand as a teenager. I would recommend reading the book it's very good

Summary

These ideals helped me move through a rough patch in my life

Relates a highly meaningful parable intended to help one deal with change quickly and prevail, offering readers a simple way to progress in their work and lives.

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THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WITH OVER 28 MILLION COPIES IN PRINT! A timeless business classic, Who Moved My Cheese? uses a simple parable to reveal profound truths about dealing with change so that you can enjoy less stress and more success in your work and in your life. It would be all so easy if you had a map to the Maze. If the same old routines worked. If they'd just stop moving "The Cheese." But things keep changing... Most people are fearful of change, both personal and professional, because they don't have any control over how or when it happens to them. Since change happens either to the individual or by the individual, Dr. Spencer Johnson, the coauthor of the multimillion bestseller The One Minute Manager, uses a deceptively simple story to show that when it comes to living in a rapidly changing world, what matters most is your attitude. Exploring a simple way to take the fear and anxiety out of managing the future, Who Moved My Cheese? can help you discover how to anticipate, acknowledge, and accept change in order to have a positive impact on your job, your relationships, and every aspect of your life.

Spencer Johnson, M.D. left behind a medical career to write short books about life. The most famous was “Who Moved My Cheese?" published in 1998. The book became a publishing phenomenon and a workplace manual. Over 50 million copies of Spencer Johnson’s books are in use worldwide in 47 languages.Dr. Johnson's education included a psychology degree from the University of Southern California, a M.D. from the Royal College of Surgeons and medical clerkships at Harvard Medical School and the Mayo Clinic.

Spencer Johnson

Who Moved My Cheese?

Real happiness starts with telling yourself the truth, even when it hurts.No one wants to be seen as a liar . Liars are considered untrustworthy at best and immoral at worst. And yet, we are perfectly content to lie to ourselves all the time. “I’ll enjoy this sleeve of Oreos today because my diet starts tomorrow,” I might tell myself. Or, “I love my job; who cares that I complain about it constantly?” Or even—ironically—“I am always honest with myself.”

Who is a Liar?

Deceiving yourself shouldn’t make logical sense. After all, lying involves telling someone something you know to be untrue. When you are both the liar and one lied to, this means you have to both know the truth and not know the truth. In practice, that means willfully disregarding key knowledge to arrive at a conclusion that is more convenient than what the facts appear to suggest.

Everyone self-deceives, but that doesn’t make it harmless. At high levels, it is associated with poor mental health. At moderate levels, it can temporarily protect the self-deceiver from bad feelings but still presents a barrier to the deep well-being that comes from living with integrity. To be really happy, we must learn to be completely honest with ourselves.

Real happiness starts with telling yourself the truth, even when it hurts.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Quit Lying to Yourself

Anna Lembke, medical director of Stanford Addiction Medicine, program director for the Stanford Addiction Medicine Fellowship, and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, shares key insights from her new book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence.

Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

One of the most important discoveries in neuroscience in the past 100 years is that pleasure and pain are co-located. The same parts of the brain that process pleasure also process pain. And pleasure and pain work like a balance. When we feel pleasure, the balance tips one way; when we feel pain, it tips the other. One of the overarching rules governing this balance is that it wants to stay level. After any deviation from neutrality, our brains will work very hard to restore a level balance, or what neuroscientists call homeostasis.

The Balance Wants To Stay Level

When we feel pleasure, our brain releases a little bit of the neurotransmitter dopamine in our brain’s reward pathway, and our balance tips slightly to the side of pleasure. But no sooner has that happened than our brain adapts to the increased dopamine by down-regulating my dopamine receptors and dopamine transmission. Why? Because, for the balance to level, it has to tip an equal and opposite amount to the other side, the side of pain. This is the aftereffect, the hangover, the comedown.

… So Pleasure Will Be Followed By Pain

If we wait long enough, neutrality is restored, and the hangover and the comedown pass. But what if we don’t wait? What if, instead, we go after pleasure and then again after pleasure?Once that happens, we’ve changed out joy set point. We need to keep doing what gives us pleasure—not to feel pleasure, but just to feel normal. And as soon as we stop doing it, we experience the universal symptoms of withdrawal from any addictive substance—anxiety, irritability, insomnia, dysphoria, and mental preoccupation with using, otherwise known as craving. This is the hallmark of the addicted brain.

The Balance Tips More And More And Then Some

This fine-tuned pleasure–pain balance of ours has evolved over millions of years to help us approach pleasure and avoid pain. It’s what has kept us alive in a world of scarcity and ever-present danger. But here’s the problem: We no longer live in that world. We now live in a world of overwhelming abundance.

A Life-Saving Mechanism In Non Life-Threatening Times

The access, quantity, variety, and potency of highly reinforcing drugs and behaviors has never been greater, including drugs that didn’t exist before—texting, tweeting, gaming, gambling, sugar, shopping, vaping, voyeuring. The list is endless. Online products with their flashing lights, celebratory sounds, laudatory likes, and bottomless bowls promise ever-greater rewards just a finger click away. They’re engineered to be addictive. The smartphone is the equivalent of the hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7 for a wired generation.

To Dopamine, Any Drug Is A Drug - And Today’s Drugs Are 24/7

If you haven’t met your drug of choice yet, it’s coming soon to a website near you. Yet despite this increased access to all these feel-good drugs and behaviors—or as Anna Lembke hypothesizes, because of it—we are more miserable than ever. Rates of depression, anxiety, physical pain, and suicide are increasing worldwide, especially in wealthy nations.

Innocent Drugs, Same Effect: Dopamine Overload

“Throughout my 20-year career, I have seen more and more patients, including otherwise healthy young people with loving families, elite education, and relative wealth, presenting with depression, anxiety, and full-body pain. We are titillating ourselves to death.”Anna Lembke

We’re Titillating Ourselves To Death

Anna Lembke put a patient of hers that was suffering from debilitating anxiety and depression on a dopamine fast: instead of prescribing antidepressants, she suggested he abstain from all screens, including video games for one month. The patient returned a month later and reported feeling better than he had in years—less anxiety, less depression. Why? Because when he stopped bombarding his reward pathway with dopamine, he gave his brain the opportunity to restore homeostasis, a level balance.

Dopamine fasting 

Whatever your drug of choice, give it up for a month, a week, or even a single day. When you do, notice how, at first, your pleasure–pain balance tilts to the side of pain, and you feel restless, cranky, and most of all preoccupied with using your drug. Your brain is screaming out all the reasons why you should use, even though you committed to a period of abstinence. But if you wait long enough and balance is restored, you’ll find that you’re free. Your mind is less preoccupied with using, you’re more able to be present in the moment, and life’s little, unexpected joys are rewarding again.

Just Wait Long Enough

If and when you decide to go back to using your drug of choice, remember to create literal and metacognitive barriers between yourself and it. The bottom line is this: To reset your dopamine brain, first abstain.

To Reset, First Abstain

In the late 1960s, scientists conducted a series of experiments on dogs. Due to their obvious cruelty, these experiments would not be allowed today. Nonetheless, they provide important information on brain homeostasis, or leveling the balance.

What If We Tip The Scale On The Pain Side First?

With repeated exposure to a painful stimulus, the dog’s mood and heart rate adapted in kind. The initial response (pain) got shorter and weaker. The after response (pleasure) got longer and stronger. Pain morphed into hypervigilance, which morphed into a fit of joy. It’s impossible to read this experiment without feeling pity for the animal subjected to this torture, yet the so-called fit of joy suggests a tantalizing possibility: By pressing on the pain side of the balance, might we achieve a more enduring source of pleasure?

Pain As A Pathway To Pleasure

How our smartphones kill a mechanism that works to keep us alive

Stanford psychiatrist Anna Lembke shares 5 key insights from her new book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence.

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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

We all are a family of millions, residing under one single roof of atmosphere. It's just acceptance that will make a big difference.

Transgender: A person whose gender identity is different from the gender they WERE THOUGHT TO BE OR ASSIGNED DURING BIRTH.<ul><li>They come from every region of the world irrespective of their racial, ethnic backgrounds, community, etc.</li><li>Approximately 1.4 million transgender adults are in the United States and a million more across the world.</li><li>Chances are that you've met a transgender person even if you don't know it.</li></ul>

What does it mean to be "transgender?

<ul><li>People can realize this at any age on the basis of their earlier memories, experiences, or they just know it.</li><li> The topic of gender identity is associated with a lot of social stigmas, fear, and discrimination, and the fear of non-acceptance by their loved ones.</li><li>Remember transitioning from a gender that was assigned during birth and the gender you feel you identify with requires a lot, and I mean really a lot of self-reflection.</li></ul>

How does someone know that they are transgenders

Most of us get confused between the two.Gender Identity refers to your internal knowledge of your own gender- that is you know whether you are a man, or a woman, or another gender.Sexual Orientation has to do with whom you are attracted to.This is where gays, lesbians, or straight couple comes into the category.A man attracted to a man refers to as gay.A woman attracted to a woman refers to a lesbian.A man is attracted to a woman and vice versa refers to as straight.Notice the difference?

Difference between 'sexual orientation' and 'gender identity

Many of us use the two above words interchangeably without knowing that both the terms are different from each other.Intersex people have their reproductive anatomy or genes that don't fit typical definitions of male or female which is often discovered at birth.Transgender on the other hand has to do with your internal knowledge of your gender identity not the orientation of your chromosomes or your external body anatomy.So you can be an intersex and a transgender Or an intersex but not a transgenderOr a transgender but not an intersex person

Difference between 'transgender' and 'intersex'

Some people think that determining who is male or female at birth is a simple matter of checking the baby's external anatomy, but there's actually a lot more to it. Every year, an estimated one in 2,000 babies are born with a set of characteristics that can't easily be classified as "male" or "female." People whose bodies fall in the vast continuum between "male" and "female" are often known as intersex people.

THERE'S MORE TO A BABY'S ANATOMY

For example, some people are born with XY chromosomes but have female genitals and secondary sex characteristics. Others might have XX chromosomes but no uterus, or might have external anatomy that doesn't appear clearly male or female.So in such conditions on the basis of your anatomy, you are declared as either male or female. But the problem is many families never even become aware that their child's chromosomes are different than expected until much later in life.

There are many different types of intersex conditions. 

Look gender non-conforming may or may not be transgender. Example: A woman raised and identified as a woman presents themselves in ways that might be considered masculine i.e Tomboy.The same way transgenders may or may not be gender non-confirming too.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRANSGENDER AND 'GENDER NON CONFORMING'

Some people's gender fluctuates over time.People whose gender is not male or female may use many different terms to describe themselves. One term that some people use is non-binary, which is used because the gender binary refers to the two categories of male and female. Another term that people use is genderqueer.

WHAT IS NON BINARY?

Counseling aimed at changing someone’s gender identity, sometimes known as conversion therapy, doesn’t work and can be extremely harmful. The belief that someone’s gender identity can be changed through therapy runs counter to the overwhelming consensus in the medical community. Imagine telling someone the core part of who they are and forcing them to change...Delusional isn't it? That's why a transition requires a really REALLY lot of self-reflection from NONE OTHER THAN YOU.

Why don’t transgender people get counseling to accept the gender

Many transgender people need to deal with physical and mental health problems because of widespread discrimination and stigma. Transgender children may experience rejection or even emotional or physical abuse at home, at school, or in their communities. But these conditions are not caused by having a transgender identity: they're a result of the intolerance many transgender people have to deal with.

THE GENDER DYSPHORIA

Transgender, nonbinary, non conforming...Many of us use the terms interchangeably without having complete knowledge of them. In this article, some of the most frequently asked questions have been answered in the easiest ways possible.

Transgender people come from every region of the United States and around the world, from every racial and ethnic background, and from every faith community. Transgender people are your classmates, your coworkers, your neighbors, and your friends. With approximately 1.4 million transgender adults in the United States—and millions more around the world—chances are that you've

Frequently Asked Questions about Transgender People

When you are sad, you may have ideas that advise you to remain alone, be quiet, and not disturb others with your issues. These beliefs, once again, should be considered parasites that aim to prevent your body from being healthy. Don’t pay attention to them.

1. Why Shouldn’t Isolate Yourself

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

Depression is usually followed by a harsh, self-destructive mindset that disrupts and distracts us from our daily lives. When people are sad, they tend to embrace their bad identity as a real reflection of who they are. Many individuals fail to comprehend that this cruel point of view is the voice of an unseen foe within.

2. Evaluate & Overcome Major Self-Defense Attacks

It may appear ridiculous or too simplistic, but anything that makes you laugh or grin might actually assist your brain to believe you are happy. If you consider depression to be your critical inner voice tricking you into feeling lousy, you might prepare your own methods to combat despair.

3. Enjoy a funny TV show or film.

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What’s up, it’s @hackedongrowth here, Nowadays as I struggled with things like motivation and especially my mood for many months but recently things have improved a lot today I want to show you how I managed to cure my depression.

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Making peace and moving forward is often easier said than done. Being able to forgive yourself requires empathy, compassion, kindness, and understanding. It also requires you to accept that forgiveness is a choice. Here are 12 tips you can try the next time you want to forgive yourself.

_Forgive yourself_

One of the first steps in learning how to forgive yourself is to focus on your emotions. Before you can move forward, you need to acknowledge your emotions. Give yourself permission to recognize and accept the feelings that have been triggered in you and welcome them.

1. Focus on your emotions.

If you make a mistake and continue to struggle with letting it go, acknowledge out loud what you learned from the mistake.When you give a voice to the thoughts in your head and the emotions in your heart, you may free yourself from some of the burdens. You also imprint in your mind what you learned from your actions and consequences.

2. Acknowledge the mistake.

Englander says to think of each “mistake” as a learning experience that holds the key to moving forward faster and more consistently in the future. Reminding ourselves that we did the best we could with the tools and knowledge we had at the time, will help us forgive ourselves and move forward.

3. Think of each mistake as a learning experience.

If you make a mistake but have a hard time putting it out of your mind, Pickell says to visualize your thoughts and feelings about the mistake going into a container, such as a mason jar or box. Then, tell yourself you are putting this aside for now and will return to it if and when it will benefit you.

4. Give yourself permission to put this process on hold.

Journaling can help you understand your inner critic and develop self-compassion. Write out a “conversation” between you and your inner critic. This can help you identify your thoughts and will help you forgive yourselfYou can also use journaling time to make a list of the qualities you like about yourself, including your strengths and skills. This can help boost your self-confidence when you’re feeling down about a mistake you made.

5. Have a conversation with your inner critic.

We are our own worst critics, right? One important action tip is to notice when that harsh voice comes in and then write it down. You might be surprised by what your inner critic actually says to you.

6. Notice when you are being self-critical.

Sometimes it can be difficult to recognize the thoughts that are getting in the way of forgiveness. If you’re struggling to sort out your inner critic, practice this exercise:<ul><li>On one side of a piece of paper, write down what your inner critic says (which tends to be critical and irrational).</li><li>On the other side of the paper, write a self-compassionate and rational response for each thing you wrote on the other side of the paper.</li></ul>

7. Quiet the negative messages of you inner critic.

If the mistake you made hurt another person, you need to determine the best course of action. Do you want to talk to this person and apologize? If you’re on the fence about what to do, you might want to consider making amends. This goes beyond saying sorry to a person you’ve hurt. Instead, try to fix the mistake you’ve made. One study found that forgiving ourselves for hurting another is easier if we first make amends.

8. Get clear about what you want.

Oftentimes, it’s easier to tell someone else what to do than to take our own advask yourself what you would tell your best friend if they were sharing this mistake they made with you, and then take your own advice.If you’re having a difficult time working through this in your head, it can help to role-play with your friend. Ask them to take on your mistake. They will tell you what happened and how they are struggling to forgive themselves.You get to be the advice giver and practice telling your friend how to move on.

9. Take your own advice.

It’s human nature to spend time and energy replaying our mistakes. While some processing is important, going over what happened again and again won’t allow you to forgive yourself. When you catch yourself playing the “I’m a horrible person” tape, stop yourself and focus on one positive action step. Interrupting the thought pattern can help you move away from the negative experience and reduce stress and anxiety.

10. Quit playing the tape.

If your first response to a negative situation is to criticize yourself, it’s time to show yourself some kindness and compassion. The only way to begin the journey to forgiveness is to be kind and compassionate with yourself. This takes time, patience, and a reminder to yourself that you’re worthy of forgiveness.

11. Show kindness and compassion.

If you’re struggling to forgive yourself, you may benefit from talking to a professional. Talking to a counselor who can help you learn how to break these unhealthy patterns in your life and learn new and healthier ways of coping with mistakes.

12. Seek professional help.

Making peace and moving forward is often easier said than done. Being able to forgive yourself requires empathy, kindness, and understanding. Whether you’re trying to work through a minor mistake or one that impacts all areas of your life, the steps you need to take in order to forgive yourself will look the same.

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12 Tips for Forgiving Yourself

Emotions mostly originate in the limbic system and the most primitive part of the brain. On the other hand, feelings come from the frontal lobe. In other words, feelings result from abstract thinking. Emotions are innate and genetically determined as the result of evolution. Although it seems weird, there’s a maximum number of emotions we can have - there’s no maximum number of feelings we can have.We verbally define feelings, while we define emotions psychophysiologically. Feelings originate from our interpretation of events and sensations. Emotions come from a nervous system response.

Automatic vs. reason

Emotions are characterized by being quite immediate. They represent the body’s alarm and survival system. In order to have a feeling, it’s necessary to think about what has happened (value the emotion), reflect on how we behaved, and thus begin to elaborate on it psychologically.Because emotions come and go quickly, our body has another assessment and motivation mechanism: feelings. Feelings represent the remnants of emotions. One of the main differences between emotions and feelings is that a feeling develops little by little.

The speed in which they appear and change

The basic and universal emotions include joy, anger/rage, fear, surprise, and sadness. In this sense, surprise is a neutral emotion whose function is to help us stay alert and very aware of what’s going to happen.For example, sadness makes us distance ourselves from others. However, feelings are much more varied and slow. They lead us to reflect on what we can do to stop feeling uncomfortable or unpleasant.

Emotions are very powerful while feelings aren’t as intense

Finally, because there are differences between emotions and feelings, there are also different ways to manage these experiences. While emotions require disconnection (for example, to avoid increasing anger and losing control), feelings need to be heard and redirected. In any case, it’s possible to both regulate emotions and reinterpret feelings and these things help us have better psychological health.

Managing feelings versus emotions

Because there are differences between emotions and feelings, there are also different ways to manage these experiences. Read more here!

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Three Differences Between Emotions and Feelings

There’s no doubt that today’s modern lifestyle can be stressful. Between work, family, and social obligations, it can be hard to make time for yourself. But it’s important to find the time.Relaxing can help keep you healthy, in both your body and mind, helping you recover from the everyday stresses that life throws at you. Luckily, no matter how busy you are, it’s simple to learn how to create time for chilling and also how to best relax.If you can find five minutes of your day for yourself, you can easily slip in a simple relaxation strategy. Here are some easy ways to help relax:

Breathing exercises<a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/box-breathing"> </a>are one of the simplest relaxation strategies, and can effectively calm your stressed-out body and mind anywhere at any time. Sit or lay down in a quiet and safe place such as on your bed or the floor in your home and put one of your hands on your belly. Breathe in to a slow count of three, and then breathe out to the same slow count of three. Feel your belly rise and fall as you breathe in and out. Repeat five times, or as long as you need to feel relaxed.

#1. Breathe it out. 

When we feel mentally stressed, we often feel physically stressed as well. Releasing any physical tension can help relieve stress in your body and mind. Lay on a soft surface, such as your bed, a carpet, or a yoga mat. Tense up one part of your body at a time, and then slowly release your muscles. As you do this, notice how your body sensations change. Many people start either with the muscles in their face or those their toes, and then work their way through the muscles across their bodies to the opposite end.

#2. Release physical tension. 

Getting things off your mind by writing them down may help you relax. When you feel stressed, take a few minutes to write down some short notes about how you’re feeling or how your day is going. You might do this in a notebook or in a notes app on your smartphone. Don’t worry about being poetic or spelling everything correctly. Just focus on expressing yourself to help release some of your stress.

#3. Write down your thoughts. 

Making a list about what you’re grateful for can help some people feel relaxed. Experts say that when we’re stressed, we tend to focus on the negative parts of life rather than the positive. Thinking about the positive parts of your life and writing them down may help you chill out. Try to think of three good things that happened to you today and write them down, even if they’re small things like getting to work on time or eating a delicious lunch.

#4. Make a list. 

Have you ever heard the expression “find your happy place”? Sit in a quiet and safe place, such as your bedroom, and begin to think about a place in the world where you feel most calm. Close your eyes and imagine all the details linked to that place: the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and tactile feelings. For example, if you think of the beach, you might imagine calm waves, the sound of children playing in the sand, the smell of sunscreen, the taste of cool ice cream and the feel of gritty sand under your feet. The more you get into your visualization, the more you can relax.

#5. Visualize your calm. 

Spending just a few minutes in nature when you feel stressed may help you relax. When you’re feeling stressed, take a step outside and go for a short walk, or simply sit in nature. But you don’t necessarily need to be in nature to feel its stress-reducing effects. Scientists have found that simply looking at images of nature with greenery for five minutes on a computer screen can help calm you down. So, thanks to technology, even people living and working in big cities far from nature can still experience its calming effects.

#6. Connect to nature. 

Learning how to relax can prevent a host of stress-related ailments from headaches and fatigue to irritability and poor performance at work or school. Techniques such as breathing, visualization, and enjoying nature are just a few effective ways to relax that you can do today.

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Mindfulness

How to Relax: Easy Ways to Relax, Recharge, and Vanquish Stress

W hen did you feel so lonely last time? Have you asked Why? Did you feel so.. if no! Ask yourself why? If, Yes then Good! You are not the only one who is feeling lonely or lonely. Everyone feels that way from time to time, from breaking up to losing someone through death. And sometimes, it is also ok! To have loneliness, thoughts. It only gets worse when you have it for too long.

Our biggest problem that is making us feel lonely is the Internet and Covid 19. The Internet made us more isolated than ever and the Japanese have their own term called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFgWy2ifX5s">Hikikomori </a> . Where one decides to isolate themselves completely from the world and it is a serious issue there.

More you stay! connect with the people who we don't know virtually, more you feel lonely. We are happy and more alive when we meet someone physically than virtually we can be friends with anyone virtually. But, it lacks the real connection that we could have through face-to-face interaction.

1. Accept this, when you feel, your lonely, you will feel it :-  You won't feel until you feel so that means I won't feel lonely if I don't. You are feeling lonely because you think you are that is why? You are feeling. My dad is no more and it totally depends on me to feel good or bad.  You can still, feel lonely even when you're with someone you love the most. The main thing is I don't feel it in the first place and that is why? I never feel lonely. Because once you start the circle will continue as a never-ending process.

2. Appreciate this life you have :- We often think happiness exists outside and that is not true. Happiness is created by your thoughts, not the things you have. When you appreciate the things you have you love yourself more and once you love yourself more you feel more alive and peaceful. You may have everything you need still you will empty. So, start appreciating the things you have.

3. Loneliness and Depression are interconnected :- Loneliness and Depression are two sides of a coin. If, one starts another starts too, the point is to feel alive each and be grateful for the things we have. When we stay alone we learn more about ourselves as I say it  "Being alone is not a curse, by being alone you get a chance to know yourself better " let this loneliness feeling be your guiding light towards new you not towards self-destruction of your own life.

5.  What loneliness teach you? :-  It taught me many things in my life. I feel happier alone than with someone it makes you love yourself even more. Accepting that you can still be happy being alone is nothing wrong. Every great human that lived, was the lonely person they felt being more alone gave them the opportunity to come up with a better idea than being in a crowd.

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How to overcome loneliness?

What is an addiction? The addiction is something that you have no longer control over it. That means you are being controlled by it. Now, before I begin I want you to know one thing that I’m not an expert on this field. I’m sharing this knowledge through my experiences only. And how I win over my bad habits.

Number 1 (Trigger) It is when the habit comes to your mind as a picture or through seeing an object. Number 2 (Process) the habit begin to take the shape. Number 3 (Conclusion) this is where your dopamine (a chemical substance is released in your brain and you feel good) after doing the habits.

So, the addiction goes through three stages that are: -  

Let’s take the example of tea. Let’s say you take tea four to six cups of tea in a day. And the doctor has warned you not to take too much tea anymore. Your sugar level has increased. But, still, you could not able to stop it.

The first thing you have to do is – try to understand or know the origin of the habit. Like when do you feel like taking a cup of tea? Maybe it could be when you are alone, when you get angry, depressed or when you go to the kitchen or it could when you hang out with your friends.

Second step: Try to divert the thoughts (Here what I mean by that – Let’s say you're suddenly feeling like you’ve to take tea but you don’t want to take because it is harming your health. During this time, try to divert the mind towards game/ crosswords/ Music during this period.

Third Step: As you overcome it, give yourself a reward. Eat the food that you love. Celebrate it, like you celebrate when you passed an exam with flying colors.

Fourth Step: (Affirmation) Say to yourself –‘Yes, I can get rid of any bad habit’ –Yes –I can overcome it. Do it four to five times or more before you wake up from the bed and before you go to bed.

In this article , I talked about on how to get rid of old habits and replace it with the new one.

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Habits

How to get rid of  addiction? 

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