How To Stop Feeling Bad Instantly

As soon as you notice that you’re feeling bad which includes feeling angry, sad, frustrated etc, ask yourself

“What am I focusing on right now?”

Most likely you’ll discover that all you're thinking about is what you don’t want. When you get caught in a negative thinking groove of only seeing what you don’t want, you get trapped in the situation as a victim and you’ll keep attracting more of the same thing into your life. You won't be able to move forward until you change your thoughts.

So, if you want to instantly stop feeling bad so that you can move forwards and also just to feel good again then try one of the following suggestions:

What Do I Want?

As soon as you realize you’re focusing on what you don’t want, turn it around by asking yourself,

“What do I want?”

As soon as you do this, you won’t feel as bad. You've gotten yourself out of the negative rut and you've started focusing on what you do want. You’ve changed your whole point of view with just one subtle change.

Sometimes, you need to think through things a little more than simply the opposite. Here’s an example. You catch yourself thinking, “I hate my job” so you change it around to be “I want a new job”. You will need to consider things like:

• What you would like to do in your new job?
• What skills would you like to be using?
• What kind of environment do you want to work in?
• What type of people do you want to work with?
• What is truly important for you to have in a job?

Otherwise, you may find that you do get a new job but it’s really the same job in just a different place so you’re no further ahead.

By determining what it is you want, then you can start to focus on how you’re going to get what you want. You’ve moved from a passive role to one of action.