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Get dressed.</i> (move your body is good any time of the day).</p><p id="bc15"><i>Go for a walk. Stretch. Place your legs against the wall</i> (the last one feels really amazing).</p><p id="b4d0"><i>Head, if you can, somewhere green</i> (especially if you’ve been looking a while at a screen. I forget this one all the time).</p><p id="9fe1"><i>Get some sunlight.</i></p><p id="ec95"><i>A garden, a park, a field, a meadow</i> (just outside the door for some fresh air is good too).</p><p id="c47d"><i>Allow bad thoughts, because that way they pass through quicker</i> (this one really it works, just practiced it a minute ago).</p><p id="89c4"><i>Put your phone in another room </i>(non-phone time can be a great novelty).</p><p id="2f32"><i>Watch some TV you really like, but decide beforehand how long you will watch for. (</i>leave me a Netflix recommendation in the comments )</p><p id="1017"><i>Breathe deeply and slowly and consciously for a little while</i> (this slows down the brain in our rapid paced world).</p><p id="69b0"><i>If there is a nagging thing you are expected to do, but don’t want to do, cancel it now </i>(I love this one

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).</p><p id="ae7e"><i>If you can, cook a good meal and concentrate on the process</i> (this takes your mind off a problem).</p><p id="23dc"><i>Don’t try to hard to sleep. Just allow your mind to absorb the day.</i></p><p id="11e3">How about you? Leave a comment on which one you use or like the best — or share a tip you have for how you deal with having a bad day.</p><p id="1cf6">I have a <a href="https://youtu.be/dt0ilvUCLls">video on my journey as a writer</a> on my YouTube channel… or read about a poem (below) about a bad moment I had in a college library.</p><div id="cd4d" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/he-was-not-generous-1f281e2fa17f"> <div> <div> <h2>He Was Not Generous</h2> <div><h3>Beware of Sleeping in a College Library</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*[email protected])"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Tips on How to Deal With a Bad Day

From Matt Haig’s The Comfort Book which is all about mental health

Me having a pretty good day (photo by my wife)

He was having a bad day.

Got in my taxi, this was before Uber, and asked me to take him to the liquor store.

Bought a bottle of vodka and wanted me to drive to a park where he waved $20 bills at people walking around a jogging path.

They ignored him.

Addiction can camouflage mental health issues and a few bad choices dealing with a problem or a relationship can lead us down the slippery slope of an addiction or relapse — I’ll share my story about that on another day.

For now, here’s some “Tips for how to make a bad day better” from Matt Haig’s The Comfort Book (he’s the author of The Midnight Library) with some of my own thoughts in parentheses:

Get up. Get washed. Get dressed. (move your body is good any time of the day).

Go for a walk. Stretch. Place your legs against the wall (the last one feels really amazing).

Head, if you can, somewhere green (especially if you’ve been looking a while at a screen. I forget this one all the time).

Get some sunlight.

A garden, a park, a field, a meadow (just outside the door for some fresh air is good too).

Allow bad thoughts, because that way they pass through quicker (this one really it works, just practiced it a minute ago).

Put your phone in another room (non-phone time can be a great novelty).

Watch some TV you really like, but decide beforehand how long you will watch for. (leave me a Netflix recommendation in the comments )

Breathe deeply and slowly and consciously for a little while (this slows down the brain in our rapid paced world).

If there is a nagging thing you are expected to do, but don’t want to do, cancel it now (I love this one).

If you can, cook a good meal and concentrate on the process (this takes your mind off a problem).

Don’t try to hard to sleep. Just allow your mind to absorb the day.

How about you? Leave a comment on which one you use or like the best — or share a tip you have for how you deal with having a bad day.

I have a video on my journey as a writer on my YouTube channel… or read about a poem (below) about a bad moment I had in a college library.

He Was Not Generous

Beware of Sleeping in a College Library

medium.com