Recognize Your Regrets

Learning to recognize your regrets seems simple enough, doesn’t it? Maybe too simple? Yet the human mind has some reflexive responses to powerful emotions – such as regret - that can make it hard to honestly face reality. One unhealthy way of relating to your regrets is to dwell on them and play them over and over again in your mind. Another detrimental way of responding to your regrets is to hide from them. You can do this by denying that there is a problem, distracting yourself with other activities, or simply suppressing your regrets, hoping they will go away. All of these futile attempts to keep you trapped in a sorry cycle.