The pain of a moment might be too deadening for teenagers in its intensity. Pain should be viewed on the larger canvas of life and only then would we realize that it is just a blip. The trick of getting over the pain of the moment is to remove yourself from it mentally. Teen Magazine suggests that whenever a teen is over-powered by any situation, she should mentally imagine herself in another time and place. She would then be able to look down upon herself stuck in the situation from outside and suddenly realize that everything seems so much more tolerable. Whenever a teenager is confronted by someone who she finds over-powering and scary, she should keep telling herself that he is just one human being who is not of much importance. When viewed according to the large canvas of life that person would seem so insignificant that you would no longer feel afraid of him. The over-bearing guy in front of her has been reduced to such a puny status that he seems laughable. Once you are able to laugh at someone, your fear of him vanishes. So a teen is now able to mentally elevate herself and reduce the fearsome guy who confronts her.

Another technique which teenagers could apply is that whenever she is overpowered by someone, all she needs to do is imagine that person naked. That reduces the guy to nothingness right before her eyes. One must truly admire such a fertile imagination, one that turns a feared person to an object of ridicule. When this happens, she would feel hard pressed to control her laughter and by now she would realize that she has completely overcome her fear and wriggled out of her corner with confidence.

And so, just a step back at the right time, a view from a distance can help make a situation look far better than it does when you surround yourself with it. Life is bound to have its ups and downs and so long as we know that one follows the other, we should be fine.

Teen Hut Magazine.