10 Mindful Tips To Beat The Monday Dreads

Raise your hand if you sometimes dread Mondays and the entire workweek ahead of you. Many of you? I thought so. Mondays can be hard just getting out of your warm, cozy bed after a long weekend especially when it’s cold, gray and rainy. The more you dread the day, the worse you feel.

The Monday blues is a common experience that usually hits on Sundays when you start thinking about the new week—all the things that need to be done and how you will accomplish them. Studies show that Monday morning moods stay with you all day long because whatever you focus on expands. The more you focus on dread, the more it grows—nibbling away at you like torture from half a million cuts. Neuroscientists say this is based on the mind-body connection. The cells of your body constantly eavesdrop on your thoughts from the wings of your mind. When you have negative thoughts, your cells dump a biochemical cocktail creating dread. And studies show that your emotional state impacts your job performance and productivity.

If you start the week with dread, it can create depression and/or anxiety of getting through more demands and deadlines. But if you broaden your perspective and consider possibilities, you can sidestep the Monday blues and start your week on an upswing. Here are 10 mindful tips that scientists call broaden-and-build that can help you widen your perspective from the narrow mental lens that creates dread:

Have any kind of Monday you want. But if you want to have a really great start to the week, regardless of the outer circumstances at work, simply practice the 10 tips and act as if it’s a wonderful day. And it will become so.

Source: Forbes.com

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