The relaxation and enjoyment of the weekend seem to come to a halt. Preoccupation about the work week invades your brain. Thoughts of everything you need to do fuel feelings of overwhelm and dread. The weekend is fast receding, Monday is fast approaching, and the blues (a legit thing—ask the experts) set in.
But you can outsmart them—and keep your mood in weekend mode till the clock strikes midnight—with a few easy strategies.
You know you had an amazing week. Time to recover and think how you gonna kill the next one. Sunday is your best day. Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends.
Hard as it may seem, the plans we make for the weekend are not all facts. Some of them are fantasies, wishes, or hopes for what we might be able to accomplish. Enjoy your family, your friends, and indulge yourself in a nice cup of coffee.
It’s both a result and a cause of stress.
Not a medical or psychiatric disorder, it’s a collection of normal feelings and challenges that many people experience. This is an anticipatory anxiety —not the stress in the moment, but the anticipation of what will come puts people in this fight. If you want to sleep in on the weekends, make it no more than minutes. Yet the Dow rose from to 1497.
Focusing on the present moment through mindfulness is one of the most powerful self-management techniques for coping with anxiety. I think about all of the stuff I didn’t get done, and whatever good things happened over the weekend just. Stress is always a symptom. A feeling of not being in control is the cause.
When we are stressed we breathe high and fast in our chests. Consciously lower and slow down your breathing. Of The Best Quotes That Perfectly Explain What Depression Feels Like.
Go bowling, go for a hike and watch the sunset, etc. In theory the whole weekend should be your time, but most Americans spend their final hours fretting about their jobs. I am trapped in the enclosure, I feel your heart , small enclosure, I feel an emptiness, almost depression,.
However, this is only a short-term solution. Alcohol will mask the anxiety at the time, but when the effects wear off, negative emotions intensify. If the depression is not due to brain chemistry one should not take medicine, but should find the reason.
Maybe it is due to some worries about the week that lies ahead or a religious thing? Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it’s heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. I lost that youthful need to fall in love every week.
And I’m going to hate you, above all, because in a week, when you fall in love with my unbearable ways, I’ll believe you’ll never get sick of them. The first prayer on this page celebrates this wonderful news.
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