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When summer approaches, we often have grand ideas of fun, relaxation, and self-improvement such as beach days, eating fresh fruits and veggies, working out, getting a (healthy) tan, going out with friends, meeting new friends, and overall \u201cliving your best life.\u201d \u00a0But when summer ends and reality hits, you may come to realize that you didn\u2019t get an opportunity to do any of that. And you know what? IT\u2019S OK! It\u2019s likely that you will constantly feel unfulfilled if you are always thinking about the things you didn\u2019t do and the ways you should be improving yourself. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n What is \u201copposite action\u201d?<\/b><\/p>\n Moreover, if you start to dwell on what you haven\u2019t been able to accomplish with respect to self-improvement, it can inhibit you from taking the action that you desire. \u00a0In order to avoid this harmful cycle, \u201cpsychologists\u00a0<\/span>recommend\u00a0<\/span>a skill called \u2018opposite action,\u2019 which takes you\u00a0<\/span>out<\/span><\/i>\u00a0of the realm of thought and into the realm of action by initiating the opposite behavior of your thoughts<\/a>.\u201d <\/span>Instead of feeling paralyzed and going back and forth in your mind about what you did not do, opposite action dictates that you act to resolve the conflict in your mind<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Putting \u201cOpposite Action<\/a>\u201d into action<\/b><\/p>\n An opposite Action is a useful tool for getting over that feeling of disappointment in yourself for not acting towards self-improvement. \u00a0<\/span>Psychology Today<\/span><\/i> provides a step by step guide to help you in applying the opposite action in situations when you find yourself battling with your thoughts:<\/span><\/p>\n Opposite Action is the opposite of easy<\/b><\/p>\n One of the purposes of opposite action is to help prevent \u201cavoidance\u201d behaviors, like when you get so caught up in your thoughts that such thoughts begin to control and paralyze you, rather than the other way around. \u00a0If you are avoiding doing something that you believe will lead to self-improvement, it actually helps to do the thing you are avoiding. It\u2019s scary and uncomfortable but sometimes that\u2019s the only way to overcome feeling \u201cstuck.\u201d \u00a0\u201cAfter doing something repeatedly, you might still feel some anxiety about it but it won\u2019t be so strong [that] you need to avoid that thing in the future<\/a>.\u201d <\/span>\u00a0For example, if you just got out of a long-term relationship and your inner dialogue is telling you that you\u2019re not ready to put yourself on a dating app, the best way to overcome these thoughts is to fight through the anxiety and put yourself on a dating app! \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Applying this practice is far from simple but once you use it, you will begin to feel more comfortable about applying it in other situations. <\/span> I don\u2019t feel improved When summer approaches, we often have grand ideas of fun, relaxation, and self-improvement such as beach days, eating fresh fruits and veggies, working out, getting a (healthy) tan, going out with friends, meeting new friends, and overall \u201cliving your best life.\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":63322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soul"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63321"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69826,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63321\/revisions\/69826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellvyl.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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