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Whatever you wish to call it, there are two interweaving strategies for leaving this desolate place: (1) continually expand the range of your unhooking skills, and (2) connect with something that makes it worthwhile leaving.
The Happiness Trap
Harris, Russ
One thing that is important about the exercise is that it is focused on the current day. If you just list three things you are grateful for in general, then every day you will have the same list. For example, one person who took me up on the challenge posted “My health, my husband, my kids” every day. By making it specific to today, you force your brain to reflect on all the positives that you have recently experienced, putting activity into the left side of your prefrontal cortex. And this is the whole point.
The Art of Taking It Easy
Brian King
You can waste a lot of time trying to decide whether your thoughts are actually true; again and again your mind will try to suck you into that debate. But although at times this is important, most of the time it is irrelevant—and wastes a lot of energy. The more useful approach is to ask, “Does this thought offer anything useful? If I let it guide me, will it take me toward or away from the life I want?” If this thought is offering something helpful, then make good use of it; allow it to guide what you do. But if it’s not offering anything of value, unhook.
The Happiness Trap
Harris, Russ
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