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10 ways to handle rejection

We all have faced rejection in our lives at some point. Be it a job, a relationship, or studies. Rejection actually hurts. We feel personal with it, we get into a lot of negative thoughts or feelings. We put ourselves down and start hating ourselves just because someone rejected us. Rejection stimulates emotional pain, which in turn produces physical pain (e.g., feeling your heart drop, obtaining a headache or feeling vertiginous, noticing a rising "fight or flight" sensation, etc.). One way to easily get out of rejection is to be prepared for it. This does not mean that you should have a pessimist approach to everything. It is just that it is always better to calculate the odds and be prepared for it. The better we tend to get at handling rejection, the less it affects us. Therefore how can you build yourself the ability to cope? Keep Things in Perspective Tell yourself: "Ok, I got rejected now. Perhaps next time, I am going to get a 'ye...

How to Overcome Breakup : 5 tips to heal a broken heart

How to Overcome Breakup: 5 tips to heal a broken heart      Breakup is despair and it will suck you into negativity. Every one of us would have crossed paths with a breakup  at least once in our lifetime. Initially, it is really hard to face our daily life when hit hard by a bad break up but as days go by you will eventually move on. The breakup scar will remain with you for a lifetime but the wound will heal and you will learn to move on with life.   Why is it so hard to overcome a breakup? To forget the person who hurt you so much?      It is because Love is a drug. It is an addiction. “Functional brain scans have shown that love is a form of addiction,” says Guy Winch, Ph.D., licensed psychologist, and author of  How To Fix a Broken Heart . “We get used to having a certain substance, and that substance is a person and the relationship in our lives. Then during ‘withdrawal,’ we get desperate and act out of character, simila...