As this year draws to a close and the weather is gets colder, people have a tendency to want to stay indoors and warm in their homes and cozy up close to the fireplace. The beginning of a new year is quite often gloomy for some as we reminisce the past year – the goals we set for ourselves and the ones we actually managed to attain and accomplish. Quite often it can be elating if we managed to attain our goals – health, wealth and personal goals, but most of the times unfortunately, it can be sad or downright depressing when we do not exceed or meet those expectations that we set out for the year. So as the year draws to a close, lets rewind a little and skim through the happy and sad memories / experiences we had through the year, and as opposed to reacting to them with an emotion, lets change our view on how we see things, and as opposed to focusing on the negative emotions of hatred, disgust, anger, sadness, irritability, among others, lets try to watch the experience as a life lesson.

Life presents us with many experiences in all range of emotions and most of them are set out for us as there is in fact a lesson in most of these. If we indeed stop feeling sorry for ourselves and actually take the experience for what it is, it may actually be helpful to manage the emotions that spring up better and as well, make sense of them. Here is a list of simple suggestions you can apply as well to better manage your emotional health:

1/ First and foremost: CLEAN THE SLATE. Let bygones be bygones. If your feelings were hurt and someone or something upset you, and you are still feeling the sadness about something that happened a few years ago, or a few months ago, you need to let go of those rotten emotions and start fresh, as they are only weighing you down and rotting away your emotional being.

2/ Forgive and Forget: There is no point carrying around the emotional baggage and the energy that you spend on feeling hurt. Remember to forgive, is Divine! Its bad enough that the negative emotions we carry create shoulder tension and back pain, and not to mention the headaches you suffer. So if the emotion you are carrying is not bringing a positive mental flow into your life, dump it, forget it, forgive the hurt and lets move on to bigger and better things.

3/ Finding positivity and staying positive: Remember the Yin and Yang circle, just as there is darkness, there is light, just as there is sadness there is happiness. Life is all about balance, so rather than feeling just the negative emotions, which affects the scale of balance, try to find a positive spin on what ever it is that you are feeling negative towards, as it will make you feel more positive and lighter in our heart. So try to be more positive this upcoming year and all the very best to you!  Have a very Happy New Year!