When you have no hope, you tend to see anything you can do to change things as hope-less.
- Get your mind off yourself
- Initiate an act of kindness – As crazy as that may sound doing acts of kindness for others increases the serotonin in the brain acting as an anti-depressant and stress reliever.
- Focus on what has worked out for you in life – to obsess over things that didn’t work out or that are painful creates more hopelessness.
Imagine outcomes in your mind’s eye that work out for you instead of replaying scenarios that didn’t – that’s a positive step toward cultivating hope instead of despair.
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