How To Get Out of That Funk

In a funk? I suggest visiting your happy place.

It sounds super cliche to bring up someone's "happy place" but this is a strategy that I often recommend with my coaching clients. Do you have one particular memory, a memory that brings about a feeling of happiness, peace, joy, laughter, serenity. It may be of a particular event, or the feeling that was created by a certain person in your life. It might be a time period of your life. It's one of those things that every time you think of it you can't help but smile. It doesn't matter where you are, or what you're doing (or if I smile is even appropriate), it is the thing, that if you draw it to your mind's eye, you smile. The thought relaxes your body and allows you to let go of any tense or unhappy emotions. We are going to learn to harness that power of that place.

This is the practice that I want you to get into. Of recalling this happy place and the shift that comes with it. Try it right now. Practicing this form of meditation during times of calm will help to make it easier when things are not going as well and it truly counts.

When you're at the peak of a stressful moment, I want you to be able to return to that place. I want you to be able to draw to mind the details from it. This takes practice. But with practice you will find that you can de-escalate your emotions. I suggest you take a few minutes to practice it now. Find that event, feeling, time period or person --Identify your "happy place". Once you have it, pull out the details. These will help you to return to when you need to. Ask yourself: What do I see? What do I hear? What do I smell? How do I feel?...Once you are able to draw these things to the forefront of your mind, with practice, you will be able to return to this place, even on the darkest days. Promise.