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
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Very True, very true.
Up up and away
with WA.
With sunshine and blue skies
all our cares de-materialise.
That's true stuff! Once I start feeling my mood change to something negative, I walk away and do something else for awhile. Or, in high stress places like my job, I try to look at all the good i'm doing instead of complaining.
Great tips! I need to frequently check my mood because of things I may consider as setbacks along this road of building my business up. That's another wonderful part of being here at WA because I can get on here and help someone with a problem and I realize things could be worse. (If all that makes sense)
Thanks for sharing!
I have been practicing meditation for 35 years and it does wonders for the mind - its not an altered state of mind but a very clear one - I can focus on daily issues without letting it get to me.
My secret is that I laugh a lot - and I never take myself seriously,I never dwell on the negative and try to keep company with like minded individuals.
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I can relate to what you are saying - although I consider myself a happy person in general, sometimes I need to get reminded that life is about living and not just results and deadlines. Thanks for sharing!