How to change your mood

If in front of me now stands a gray, dreary, lethargic person who for the last 20 or 30 years has been learning to be an unfortunate victim and explain all his problems and difficulties by the fact that life has developed … (life has developed itself, he did not add it up, he has nothing to do with it at all ), then to explain to such a person that for the last 20-30 years he has lived stupidly — inefficiently and even somehow not sincerely. Therefore, I will most likely pat him on the shoulder, sigh, and say: “Yes, it happens.” It is pointless to talk to such people.

It is interesting to talk with those who still know how to live, who add up their own life. And who says: “Yes, when the weather is good, when the stomach does not hurt, when there are options to choose from and the people around are pleasant, of course, it’s easier to rejoice, but anything happens in life.” And then what? Then there are two points.

Firstly, you have to get out of the shit that you got into, from a difficult life situation — once.

Secondly, if you are already starting to get out, then with inner vigor and good mood, in anticipation of the fact that “you will get out of here”, it is easier to get out. Therefore, as soon as you wake up, while “they don’t unscrew your ears” and “no one boils in oil”, while there is a free minute, create a normal cheerful mood for yourself. You are the brightest and most energetic today. And after that, go about your business.

There should be a good mood, not because everything around is good, but so that everything around becomes better. This is how you swap it.

If some mood does not suit you, it can usually be changed immediately or gradually. Ways:

• substitution for another mood. Being in a traffic jam does not have to be angry. You can turn on music, solve questions on the phone, do facial exercises and stretch your voice.

Techniques to improve sluggish mood

• Reboot: strain all your muscles to the limit, shrink into a ball, fix yourself in this state, and then straighten up with one movement!
• Another reboot option (if possible): take a full chest of air and shout with all your might on the exhale (also with tension).
• Sliding renaming. When you walk and somehow associate yourself with all sorts of objects on the street.
• Keep attention on 6 objects outside at the same time, without jumping attention.
• Describe everything you see.
• Call a close friend or a good person — and say something nice to him.
• Help someone, or just do a good deed.

What to do about mood swings

See PMS and Labile type: how to work on yourself