Antidote for Bad Mood

 

How can we counter bad mood? Well, it all depends on what is causing the bad mood, sometimes separating ourselves from the cause can already help with the mood, but if you can’t do that what can you do to lift your spirits?

One thing that helps me is to do something I love to do, whether it is watching movies, YouTube or even drawing and sketching. Usually while having a movie or YouTube in the background. That seems to always lift my spirits. You can take inspiration from your mood and turn it into a drawing almost as if you were to magically transfer the mood to the paper.

This also applies to writing; you can channel the mood into a story and write it out. Let your emotions flow and see what you can come up with.

Taking a walk helps so much, you can walk fast or even run when you are angry, channel that bad mood and use it to your advantage to power walk. Or you can take a nice scenic stroll to change your perspective and therefore your mood as well. Looking at the trees, the flowers, literally stop, to smell the roses! Remind yourself that the bad mood will pass and there are things to be grateful for.

Listen to some fun uplifting music! Good music can always cheer one up. When you listen to music you can even dance, dance it out. Listen to music that makes you feel good. The genre for this will be different for everyone.

Reach out to a friend or family member. Sometimes talking it out helps incredibly much. It’s better to get things off your chest rather than to bottle it all up. Because eventually we will have bottled up so much that it feels like we are going to explode and that is never a good feeling.

Maybe you can even do something nice for someone else to see if that will help your mood. Take a friend out for some coffee, have a chit chat, connect with them. Very much like the previous point.

If your bad mood has persisted for a while try getting more sleep, maybe you aren’t getting enough sleep and that causes you to be in a bad mood, it sometimes happens to me. Another thing that also often happens is when we eat too much take out and not the healthy kind, all the fast food always turns my mood a little sour almost as if my body is rebelling and saying “feed me something healthy” ha ha

One last point is mindfulness. Take the time to spend with yourself, maybe write in your journal or meditate and focus on your breathing. Focus on the present and don’t dwell on the past or the cause of your bad mood. Ground yourself and take deep breaths.

I know a lot of these are easier said than done, it is easy to be stuck in a bad mood, thinking there is no way out. However, give some of these a shot and see if they help you climb out of the funk. 😊