Lead with action, many of us are waiting to feel better so we can get back to the things we used to
enjoy.
However, it's much more efficient to gradually start doing rewarding activities even if we don't feel
like it.
The interest in the activities will follow.
This approach is the foundation of behavioral activation for depression.
Think of it like starting an exercise program.
At first you may have very little motivation to go to the gym.
Your body may not be used to physical activity.
And you may you may feel more pain than you were from your workout, but if you stick with it, the
balance will begin to shift.
You will start to enjoy the exercise high from endorphins.
You will notice you have more energy you which will motivate you to continue your might start to look
forward to seeing your new friends at the gym.
If you had waited till you felt like exercising, you might have never started behavior.
Activation works the same way actions seems to follow the feeling, but really action and feeling go
together.
And by regulating the action which is under the more control of the well, we can indirectly regulate
the feeling which is not.