10 Top Ways to Boost Your Mood

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10 Top Ways To Boost Your Mood

 

1. Listen to Uplifting Music!

 

Some music is designed to have a positive and reaffirming effect on

emotions and mental clarity. Singing along to a familiar song or

showtune might be all you need. Music is a magical medium and a very

powerful tool. Music can delight all the senses and inspire every

fiber of our being. Music has the power to soothe and relax, bring

us comfort and embracing joy! Music subtly bypasses the intellectual

stimulus in the brain and moves directly to our subconcious. There

is music for every mood and for every occasion. Music Therapy is

incorporated in a number of areas of medicine.

 

 

2. Use Aromatherapy

 

Aromatherapy has been clinically shown to ease stress and improve

moods. Essential oils of plant, fruit, and flower essences are

created to center and enhance the body and mind in order to help us

in preventative measures, as well as, an effective cure for many

illnesses. Scents can induce an amazing power as they influence our

moods. Our sense of smell is the most direct path to our emotions.

This is the principle behind the ancient art of aromatherapy.

 

 

3. Get A Massage

 

Massage Therapy has been proven to reduce anxiety and sadness and to

lower cortisol, the stress hormone. Massage Therapy not only treats

those parts of you which are a problem, but also affects the whole

of your metabolism through normalizing your circulatory, muscular

and nervous systems and their interdependent functioning.

 

 

4. Enjoy Good Fat

 

Hormones that regulate Serotonin, our bodies' main mood-boosting

chemical, are stimulated by fat consumption. Before reaching for a

piece of cake or a cookie, try a piece of salmon. Not all fats are

created equal and you should AVOID saturated fats. Instead, eat

foods containing 'good fats' such as fish, nuts and olive oil. These

foods help with depression and low self esteem by boosting

Serotonin.

 

 

5. Get Your Vitamin D

 

Serotonin is affected by Vitamin D. Studies have shown that

consumption Vitamin D makes people feel better. Particularly those

who suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder.

 

 

6. Practice Yoga Therapy

 

This ancient exercise from India had been shown to boost energy,

release tension and stress, and help with depression, anger and

fatigue. Practicing yoga is associated with establishing harmony,

equanimity, balance.

 

 

7. Make Humor and Laughter Daily Medicine

 

Laughter reduces muscle tension. This muscle relaxation and the

easing of psychological tension that accompanies it, is the main

goal of pain and stress management. This certainly accounts for the

stress-reducing power of humor.

 

 

8. Eat Breakfast

 

Studies have shown that eating breakfast is associated with greater

calmness and less stress. It also improves alertness, which can help

your memory and ability to learn. Eating fiber at breakfast is best.

Eating fiber in the morning allows for less emotional distress, more

energy and more mental alertness!

 

 

9. Move!

 

Exercise is the best medicine for anxiety and depression. It not

only keep the body physically and mentally fit but also provides

recreation and mental relaxation. It is nature's best tranquilizer.

Exercise produces chemical and psychological changes that improves

your mental health. It changes the levels of hormones in blood and

may elevate your beta-endorphins (mood-affecting brain chemicals).

Exercise may also improve the function of the autonomic nervous

system. Exercise also gives a feeling of accomplishment and thus

reduces the sense of helplessness.

 

10. Meditation

 

Every 5 to 10 minutes spent centering yourself in stillness will

have positive effects. Meditation improves over all well being.

Meditation helps us live a healthier, less stressful life. The

physical and psychological benefits are wonderful and many people

meditate only for those reasons. The practice of meditation helps us

temporarily let the physical world go so that we can begin to see

ourselves as we truly are.

 

 

Andrew Pacholyk LMT, MT-BC, CA

Peacefulmind.com

Alternative medicine and therapies

for healing mind, body & spirit!