A bad mood can ruin your whole day! What techniques do you have to get over one? I recommend to clients that they create a list of ideas that they can draw on in difficult times. Here is an example of my list. What would be on your list?
Recall something or someone who makes you happy and daydream about it or him/her.
Maybe it is about someone you love or a special trip or place you have been or want to go. I love sitting by the ocean listening to music. Once several years ago my daughter and I spent several evenings at an outdoor cafe in Santorini watching the sun set over the water. The cafe owners provided wonderful classical music on their music system. It is a place I often return to in my daydreams.
Find something or someone you are grateful for and express your gratitude to yourself, to your journal and/or to the person or others.
What is it that makes a day special? Is it seeing a Cardinal in your backyard, watching the sunset over the ocean, skiing down a mountain or getting a clean bill of health from your doctor? Look around a bit. Write about it in your journal or just remember it.
Focus on what you have been ignoring.
When was the last time you read a great novel, sat by a fire in the fireplace or had the oil in your car changed? Find something you have been meaning to do and do it!
Stay in the present. Appreciate the mundane by focusing on the activities you do without thinking like eating, bathing, walking.
Take notice of how good the water feels in the shower, how soft or hard the ground feels on your feet as you walk or just silently eat your meal and really taste it.
Get some exercise-go for a walk, ride your bike, jog etc.
I had a coach who used one of those big exercise balls to change her mood. Bouncing on the ball made her giggle and forget whatever it was that was bothering her.
Take a break and have a cup of tea. Sit quietly for 15 minutes. Keep your mind blank.
Often the silence is enough to change my mood. Sitting quietly keeping my mind off everything brings me back. I particularly like doing this and having a cup of hot tea in the winter.
Pick a piece of uplifting music and listen to it.
Show tunes make me smile! You must know that by now. How about you? What kind of music makes you happy?
Find your own special place to gather strength. Popular possibilities are sitting by the ocean/river/pond, visiting a mountain range, sitting or standing by a lovely garden.
In the summer the best place for me to change my mood is by the ocean. I love to watch the waves come in and out. Planting my garden also gives me a boost. I've been told by others that looking up at mountains does the same for them. At the present time I don't live by any mountain ranges.
Watch a young child play. See how engaged they are in the moment and in what they are doing. Join them.
I recently hosted a dinner party for 6 adults and 2 children. The 17 month old loved the jar of bubble liquid that I gave him. He giggled with delight as I blew bubbles for him. As he laughed and chased the bubbles I couldn't help smile at his enthusiasm, happiness, and general contentment for the way things are.
Sing your favorite song with or without the radio or stereo on. Crowing worked for Mary Martin! (See song title above.)
It is hard for me to imagine being sad when I am singing
Ten Ways To Help You Recover From A Bad Mood - To learn more about this author, visit Alvah Parker's Website.
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