10 Effective Ways to Stay Hopeful in Times of Adversity and Despair by Nora Price for Christian News Journal
When life’s circumstances, drop us to our knees, we can feel a loss of hope. Family and friends give words of encouragement and support, but it’s still tough to tug ourselves out of despair, anger, disappointment and frustration. However, by understanding that hope is a choice, we will cope better and keep it alive.
Hope’s Superhero
“Once you select hope, anything is feasible,” said Christopher Reeves, best known for his role as “Superman”. He knew the facility of hope. Hope helped him to endure a devastating medulla spinalis injury caused by a competitive horseback riding accident in 1995. The accident left him paralyzed from the neck down and unable to breathe without a ventilator. Despite this traumatic, life-changing event, he made a deliberate option to be productive and not be a burden to his family, which gave him hope. He started the Christopher and Dana Reeves Foundation (what it’s now called today) with the goal of finding a cure and advancing the standard of life for people living with medulla spinalis injuries.
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He also nurtured his creative side by directing a television movie that starred actor Glen Close called within the Gloaming. He starred and directed during a remake of the 1954 Hitchcock movie car window playing a vent-dependent quadriplegic. Christopher Reeves chose hope, and it made all the difference in his continuing to realize great things.
We can also use hope to embrace our future. By deciding to build one’s inner strength, and with constant practice, it becomes second nature. So, Here are 10 effective ways to practice hope, especially during adversity and despair:
1. Openly express your feelings
During a setback or loss, it is often healing to precise your feelings to a beloved or write them down during a journal. Doing this can actually help you release those pent-up negative emotions that are causing you to feel less hopeful. once you feel negative emotions arise, try to not judge them. Rather, shift your attention to the longer term. are you able to plan a trip? enjoys an ingenious hobby? Although it’s going to not be easy to try to to this directly, whenever you think about what’s possible, you’ll feel an increase in hope.
2. Search for hope in unexpected places
Did you ever experience seeing a silver lining from something or someplace unexpected? Perhaps you were sitting during a park together with your dog and saw two people laughing then embracing. Suddenly, your singlehood felt a touch brighter. Take an honest shop around you. Hope is in our playgrounds, at our coffee shops, within the books we read, in our friend’s voice and our mother’s caring words. Create a challenge today to seem for hope in your daily routine, and see your spirits lifting.
3. Cultivate optimism
Many times, one is asked if you can either see a half-empty or a half-full glass. Question is, does one make lemonade out of the lemons life throws at you? Then you’re an optimistic person. You’ll tend to enjoy a better quality of life and better physical and psychological state consistent with research project. However, if you tend to be more pessimistic, especially during hard times, then here are some ways to cultivate optimism: specialize in your strengths, not your weaknesses, maximize your successes and minimize your failures, challenge self-sabotaging thought patterns by creating new ones that empower you, and appearance in the least the chances in your life, not the restrictions.
