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Are you a naturally optimistic person or do you find your self too often feeling sad and depressed, with a long face and a heavy heart? Most of us have heard about the importance of seeing the glass half full instead of seeing it half empty. We all know that positive, optimistic people are happier, healthier and more successful. But how does one go from feeling depressed and pessimistic to becoming happy and naturally optimistic?

If you are feeling pessimistic right now, you probably feel doubtful that you could actually change the way you see the world, but I want you to know that it really is possible! Just because you?re feeling sad and depressed today doesn?t mean you have to live that way for the rest of your life. In my work as a psychotherapist, I?ve helped many people make that important change. I know that you can do it too.

I?ve identified a few steps that will accelerate your journey from pessimism and depression to optimism and light-heartedness. I suggest that you make a vow to yourself that you will try them every day for one month and then watch and see what happens in your life!

1. Learn to identify your feelings and process through them until you release them. Identifying what you really feel and processing through your feelings is the most important step in this process. When authentic release from the emotional pain happens, you will feel free of the negativity and full of creative ideas about how to handle the difficult situation better in the future. When you don't process through your feelings, you keep accumulating negative feelings that turn into ugly negative attitudes over time. Holding negative attitudes over time causes depression, while releasing the feelings leads to natural joy and light-heartedness.

2. Build a healthy support system and surround your self with friends who are also interested in personal growth. Join a support group or a positive activity where you can make some real friends. True friends are people who want you to be the happy, c! onfident , optimistic person you can be! True friends will also do anything they can to help you get past your depression and pessimism to become your true, happy, light-hearted self, including helping you deal with difficult issues that you may want to avoid facing.

3. Get out in nature every day and go for a half hour walk! Being out in nature helps to lift your spirits and see things in more positive, optimistic ways, and walking a half hour three times a week is said to be comparable to taking an anti-depressant, minus all the negative side effects.

4. Ask for divine help from your Higher Power, even if you don?t know what that means. There is a power greater than you who is always available to help you if you simply ask. You don?t have to join an organized religion or go through any traditional rituals. Simply talk to your Higher Power in your mind and ask for help and guidance in your life and then watch and see what happens! Your Higher Power will undoubtedly guide you to a more optimistic outlook. Remember to be also grateful for the help and guidance you receive.

5. Practice the art of healing laughter every hour and every day of your life! If you've forgotten how to laugh, imagine yourself laughing like you did as a child every day until you find a way to make it happen! Your imagination offers a powerful suggestion to your unconscious mind that will naturally be created in your life in fun, serendipitous ways! It?s hard to stay pessimistic and depressed when you are laughing regularly. Just practicing laughter, itself, could help you wake up one day as a positive, happy, optimistic person!

Copyright ? 2006 Kari Joys. All rights reserved.

Why spend another day feeling depressed when you can begin this exciting emotional healing journey right now? Even if you grew up in an extremely dysfunctional family, with patience and persistence you could actually overcome a lifetime of negative patterns by following Kari Joys? simple 33-day emotional healing journey!

Kari Joys MS! is a hi ghly recognized psychotherapist, a skilled group facilitator, and a powerful energy therapist in private practice for over twenty years. If you're ready to change your life, visit http://www.kari-joys.com

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