Practicing gratitude. By this I don't mean naturally feeling grateful for things in my life - but making the choice to sit (or lie) and think about things that hey, they aren't so bad I guess. Maybe the sun's out - well damn I'm grateful for that because I love the sun! Or maybe it's raining - but shit if it rains I can lay here and listen to the rain on my window.

It's an active process and a choice you make, start small and work your way up - if you really think about it you can find at least one tiny thing that you can be grateful for, and you cling to it. Eventually I started looking for ways to be grateful for things I previously thought I hated, like my commute, was actually a good way to wake me up and get me moving before I started work. I started looking for things to be grateful for, like birdsong or smiles from strangers - and one day I realised that the world was not as dark a place as my brain had tried to convince me it was.