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This is optimal living daily episode 1205 10 simple strategies for kicking out the blues part one by Victoria Vargas with Roudy kittens dot com and I'm just a mollock.

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10 simple strategies for kicking out the blues part one by Victoria Vargas with Roudy kittens dot com.

There's a lot of bad news out there these days and so many of us seem to be struggling under additional stress and worry.

No matter how sunny a disposition we may normally have, sometimes life beats us up a bit and we get the blues.

They say the happiness is a choice, but the reality is that we can't always control how we feel.

However, we can control how we respond to those feelings.

While blowing in the blues no matter how seemingly justifiable tends to become self perpetuating and we can easily sink into a lower and lower state of unhappiness.

When the blues start hitting because the world is coming on too strong, I found that a little concerted effort on my part is usually enough to help me turn the corner and get moving back into a better space.

1. Know Your Happy Place

I always grin when I think of the little starfish on the side of the dentist aquarium in finding Nemo trying to comfort himself by yelling out his mantra,

Happy Place, Happy Place. Identifying your happy place is a great starting point for kicking out the blues.

Is there one place where you feel you are your best self?

At home, girled up in your squashy chair with a book, hiking on a trail on the forest,

at your drawing table, absorbed in sketching, lost in the aisles of your local library, having a good chat with your partner or best friend,

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