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What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings? What are some practical strategies for managing negative emotions? Emotions are messages. Intense as they are but still messages, you have to listen to them, experience them, and let them pass, as you receive the message. Funny as it is you don’t have to actually do something, quite the opposite the point is to be as still as possible when you feel the emotions. Imagine yourself in the cockpit of an airplane suddenly an alarm starts ringing. Do you start to try to shut the alarm off or do you act in accordance with the message that you receive? Maybe you are losing altitude, maybe there is something wrong with the engines, maybe a small minor issue who knows? The fact that we don’t know how to interpret our feelings has made us demonize them and try to escape from them. The more we try to escape them the stronger and more intense the message becomes. When we have been ignoring some messages for a long it is useful to progressiv...

I've got a few into the zone activities that are my ‘go to’ depending on my mood. Dancing - I don't have any training, I just find that the music and body movement take me out of my head. Reading - A good book captures my imagination and I'm transported to another place or sparked by ideas. Cooking - Savoury and sweet dishes have the ability to take up all my attention for however long the recipe takes. Sudoku - most puzzles really, they might not take long but in that time I'm not aware of anything else Hearthstone - I can easily lose several hours of the day to this game. Just finishing a quest or a level of one of the solo adventures can suck me in. Exploring - not the intrepid kind, but set me down on foot or by car in a new neighbourhood, or area in a city or country I'm curious about and I can lose track of time seeing what lies at the end of the street, scouting quirky cafes, or finding a green spot with a view.

Figure out how to go to library school. Make it happen. Chuck organized religion even sooner. Make every effort to develop and nurture adult relationships with your grandparents, even though your parents evidently could not. Maintain the loving relationship with your step-grandparents. None of them are going to live forever. Maintain relationships with your oldest and best friends. Some of them may not be around as long as you assume they will be.