Steps to Having a Better Week Part Two
WOW!!!!! Here I’ve been working on writing once a week and life just pulled me away from just about everything. This has been some of the most stressful times, ever.
But back to making it all better with my easy to follow steps. These steps are good most of the time but especially when day after day just feels like it’s going to shit. I could basically explain my past few weeks and it would sum it all up, but I would end up getting side tracked in the process and this might turn into something pretty depressing. So instead, I am going to uplift.
Part two, which is not second to part one but in addition to part one.
#1 Breath
It’s as easy as an inhale and an exhale and we do it all day long. But when we are having a stressful week or feel tense about everything going on in the world around us, our breath becomes tighter and shorter. Take a few minutes to just sit back and breath. Take some slow inhales and slow exhales, breathing deep into the belly. And if it doesn’t relieve any stress, at least it gave you a few minutes to think about something other than everything that is causing your bad day.
#2 Smile At Strangers
I love to smile. I smile A LOT. Sometimes I smile so much my cheeks hurt. And no, it’s not like the smile of a first grade school picture, its just my normal smile. I find that when I am stuck in my head and having a bad day, a smile can go a really long way. I make eye contact with someone and smile and usually say a soft “hello.” But sometimes a smile leads to a quick conversation and sometimes a smile leads to someone else smiling back at you. When the weeks aren’t going good, smiling is a habitual good feeling. When we smile good things usually happen and when you smile your muscles think that good is happening and maybe your muscles will talk to your brain and then maybe your brain will start thinking that good things are happening. All because you smiled. Or, smiling at a stranger as you pass them might make their day a little better. And possibly making someone else's day better is a sure way to make you feel a little better about the person you are in the world. It’s the small things.
#3 Break the Rules
I am a rule follower about 85 percent of the time. I follow most of the important rules, but when it comes to the little things, breaking rules is fun. Sometimes being a little out of the box can make the pieces of your life seem a lot more normal. And fuck people that make you feel guilty about being bad every so often. All too often we are living so far inside the lines so that we don’t make anyone uncomfortable. Sometimes you need to be yourself and your true self. Maybe it’s riding your bike down the street without a helmut. Or drinking that next beer just because you can. Or saying something inappropriate just because you wanted to. The list could go on and on. Think of a little way to break some of the social norms and see where it takes you.
#5 Don’t Make Any Big Decisions
So often when things are going bad, we have the tendency to make some big decisions. Don’t. There is little good that can come out of it. These are the times when you decide to post an intimate secret on Facebook, or get a dog, or confront a friend over something that doesn’t really matter. Don't do it. Most of the time, as the stress passes so will those strong feelings you had. Go back to breathing and maybe spent your time smiling. Keep big decisions to times when things seem a little more normalized.
#6 Have Sex
I don’t know if I have written about sex on here yet, so this could be a first. Now sex can make a lot in life better. And I did a quick google search on “benefits of sex” and here is our list: Improved immunity, lower blood pressure, pain relief, improve sleep, stress relief. Believe it or not, I think this could have been at the top of the list. Have sex. And if you don’t have someone to have sex with maybe experiment with dry humping. It might not have all the benefits but it’s fucking dry humping.