Ways To Go From Hopeless to Hopeful

8 Ways To Go From Hopeless to Hopeful

And we’ve seen days (if not more) of feeling low and miserable, seeing no light at the end of the tunnel, forlorn and lost, we despair; desperate, our fractured souls look for any ray of hope!We’ve all
been there. Swinging the seesaw of hope. We’ve experienced the high of feeling full of anticipation, brimming with confidence, optimistic about the path ahead, encouraged to achieve in spite of
adversities. After all; there’s hope!
Hope then is like the weave to the fabric of our existence. The quintessential thread that holds us
together. Having hope is like taking your next breath; breathing. Without hope; would it be fair to say that we essentially lose motivation, direction or even the will to survive? Wouldn’t it be ideal if we never had to struggle with
the hope-less days and forever remain positively charged? Always be hope-full.
Spirituality, Faith in a Higher Power, Trust in yourself, Belief that everything happens for the best… these are a few of the likely answers and (to each heir own) rightly so. Hope then is intangible, it needs to be felt. It’s a feeling. And luckily a feeling
can be evoked. Like a song that makes you sentimental, an old perfume that makes you nostalgic or a photograph
that brings forth happy memories.
So how do you evoke hope?
Here are 8 ways to do just that.

1. Ask yourself, “Are hope and
possibilities through faith related
things?” If you answered “Yes,” then focus on how to improve your possibilities and the faith to believe.
What do you believe in and why? How can working on that make you stronger?
If your answer was “No,” figure out the difference between the two – hope and possibilities. That may help you understand how to best use your faith to
have hope and see possibilities.

2. Look at the people around you.
You can learn plenty from them.
Observe those that are making progress toward their goals, are centered, happy and optimistic — do they do possibility thinking?

3. Imagine waking up fresh every
morning, truly feel hopeful. That
is possibility thinking. Make time
every day to imagine the day
going well as you work to
continue making progress toward
possibilities.

4. Get training or coaching/counseling from an expert.
Sometimes this needs a sincere
commitment towards change and
can be time consuming. Stay
determined to improve.

5. Decide to take it as it comes…
accept life events and work with
them. Living in denial blocks
hope.

6. Take risks, make shifts in
your lifestyle if that seems like
the way to make progress.

7. Redesign, rebuild — a little at
a time or start afresh, but don’t
you quit.

8. Relax and be refreshed;
meditate/pray and find time for
recreation to be able to keep
going forward.

Most importantly; pause long enough to realize you probably already possess a seed of hope — even if you don’t realize it. You either feel hope – less or hope- full. Regardless of both eventualities; hope
exists.

Look within – hope only needs to be evoked.