If you’ve had a hard or stressful day, it’s easy to let negative emotions weigh you down and play on your mind before you go to bed. However, holding onto negative emotions at the end of your day will make it more difficult for you to switch off and fall asleep. Therefore, it’s important to release negative emotions before you go to bed. If you don’t, it can cause you to have a restless sleep or even nightmares. Therefore, you’ll wake up feeling low, tired, and lethargic and will carry those negative emotions into the following day.
It’s best to let your day go and the end of the night. Move forward with a positive mindset that tomorrow will be better. You can handle anything that comes your way with grace and control of your emotions.
At the end of your day, let go of the negative emotions you’ve been holding on to. Then, set your intentions for tomorrow and decide how you want to react to future negativity. How will you react to the things that come your way that aren’t ideal? This will help you focus on positive outcomes and take back control of your thoughts, your emotions, and how you react in negative situations.
When you go to sleep with negative emotions in your head, you’re negatively affecting yourself, your life, your thoughts, and your emotions. Stop holding onto the anger, resentment, frustrations, etc, of your day. You are only torturing yourself by playing over these negative situations in your brain. Instead, choose to be happy and focus on the good things in your life.
Release Negative Emotions Before Bed
Before you go to sleep, write down or vividly think about three things that you are truly grateful for. Then, say thank you for them over and over again until you feel the feelings of happiness, love, and appreciation for those things. This will help you to focus your attention on all that you have to be happy and thankful for in your life. Moreover, it will help you to let go of any negativity that you’ve been holding on to.
If you’ve fallen out with someone, never go to bed with feelings of anger, hate, or ill feeling towards them. You never know what tomorrow will bring or when it might be the last time that you will able to speak to them or see them again. If you’ve fallen out with someone, forgive them quickly and reach out to resolve the conflict. Life’s too short to fall out with people you care about and holding onto negative emotions only hurts you. Therefore, be the bigger person and free yourself of the negativity as well.
Remember, you attract what thoughts and emotions you put out into the world. Therefore, when you have a low vibe and energy, everything will seem harder and negative.
If you go to sleep with negative emotions like anger, hurt, stress, anxiety, worry, or any other negative emotions from your day, then you’re sending out a message that you want to receive more of those negative emotions in the future. You ultimately determine how your life plays out and what emotions you want to feel. Therefore, you can choose to feel happy and let go of negative emotions today. This will enable you to lead a happy and healthy life.
How to Release Negative Emotions
Here are just a few ways that you can release negative emotions and the stresses of your day before you go to sleep.
- Nighttime journaling (this is one of the most powerful ways to get all your negative emotions out of your brain and to focus on what’s important in your life).
- Do a nighttime routine (this will help you to unwind and let go of your day)
- Meditate
- Have a relaxing bath with candles
- Yoga or light stretching
- Read a self-development book
- Envision your future life and how you want to feel and live
- Listen to an uplifting podcast
- Say 3 things that you are grateful for and really feel those positive emotions
- Practice deep breathing and releasing negative thoughts from your body (breathe in positivity and breathe out everything you want to let go of)
“Sometimes we think we need to hold on, when we really need to let go. Let go of the negative energy, events or people, set some boundaries and start our new day.”– Jennifer Gayle
Summary
To live a happy and fulfilled life, you need to change your mindset to one of positivity, love, and gratitude for yourself and your life as it is now. Therefore, it’s vital to not go to sleep with negative emotions and thoughts racing through your body. You can’t live the life you’ve always envisioned for yourself if you’re holding onto negativity.
Release negative emotions and thoughts and let go of your day before you go to sleep. Then, you can wake up feeling refreshed and energised to start the next day with a new positive outlook.
Holding onto negativity only affects you and doesn’t change the situation or help in any way. You can choose to be happy and love your life no matter what has happened to you up until this point. Therefore, start thinking and feeling more about what you want to attract into your life. Let go of everything that doesn’t fit into this new and amazing reality.
You’ll soon see that life doesn’t seem so bad, and things that used to get to you will pass by without much thought. You can create the life of your dreams, you just have to decide to focus your attention on being positive and let go of negative emotions that come your way.
“Forgive people in your life, even those who are not sorry for their actions. Holding on to anger only hurts you, not them.”– Unknown
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