Quick Ways to Improve Your Mood - Part 1

As much as we pertain to feel happy, positive, uplifting and joyful, there are time when we feel sad, mad, or just frustrated. Listed below are simple techniques that will help you shift from a bad mood to a good one.

1. Live for the moment - Many of our thoughts center around thing involving our past and future. Improve your mood by focusing on the now. Obsessively planning for tomorrow prevents you from the richness of this day.

2. Don't be so serious - If you are feeling exhausted or listless and find that you are being your worst critic, try releasing your grip on the reins of self control. Self control and self criticism have become a way of life, and they drain our playfulness and capacity for free self-expression. We must learn how to have fun again, look silly, dance freely, to stop and remind ourselves that life is about laughter.

3. Transform your complaints - Complaining, ranting, and venting will only attract more of what you do not want into your life. I know the temptation to vent can be hard. When you find yourself in this space, try an easy technique and turn things around. Write five things down you want to complain about.

Allow yourself to really feel them. Acknowledge their value in helping you become clear about what it is you do not want. Change those thing that you do not want into things you do want instead. By doing so you will start feeling better!

Hope this was helpful and please leave a comment.

Cheers

Tony