Can you recommend some ways for me to lift my spirits?
I woke up in a funk. I feel quite down in the dumps.
Any ideas on improving my mood?
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Exercise. Take a nice walk. Do deep breathing. Smile.
(Sending Hugs, @Hawaii_Jake)
Take a walk in the beautiful outdoors enjoying the flora and fauna you run across.
Take a warm bath in bath salts with minerals.
Fix yourself a cup of tea in a nice cup. I suggest jasmine, white tea, or chamomile.
Call a friend or write a letter.
Breathe deeply and slowly consciously in and out. Fill your belly fully before exhaling slowly.
Remember that you are loved on Fluther. I would love to meet you and talk with you sometime.
- Exercise.
– Smile. It will hurt a bit, but smile anyway.
– Go get coffee and pay for someone behind you.
– Donate money to a cause that is important to you.
– Get outside – preferably in the woods.
– Play music if you play instrument.
– Paint, draw, or sculpt if that’s your thing.
Wear pajamas, eat junk food and watch cartoons all day?! I like to wallow in my funks to get it out of my system. :)
Go clothes shopping at the local GoodWill.
You get an extra bonus if you secretly pay for the purchase made by a nice, but underfunded, family getting ready for the next school year.
Borrow a friend’s dog and have a sleep-over.
When my sister is feeling droopy, she has Boydy, the neighbor’s pit bull, move in for several days. Recently Boydy failed his exam for a service dog, being unable to pass food by when instructed to do so, and my sister was able to cheer him up.
Watch a lot of cat videos on youtube.
I’ve taken up bike riding.
It’s one surefire way to get 20 minutes to yourself in the morning, and you don’t have to think about anything other than the weird clicking of your bike chain and the feel of the sun on your shoulders.
That, and painting.
Exercise of any kind, walking, swimming, biking.
Call me – I’m in a funk too.
Start taking 2K mg of fish oil a day=spread hours apart. Watch a movie you get LOST in to the point that you forget your own existence and eat a bowl of popcorn while you’re doing it soaked in real butter. Ahhhhhhh
In addition to what’s been said above, listen to this. I’ve had it on repeat for the past hour or so and I feel light and happy. :)
Hawaii Jake, firstly understand that you cannot be positive all the time. As with everything in our lives with an up there is a down, left there is a right, and with high spirits there are low spirits. It is during this time of low spirits we must reflect on ourselves on what can make us better and can move us in a positive direction to once again ride the waves of a high spirit. Whatever you do, do something specifically just for you, and lastly try to humble yourself in the overall picture of your place in our huge world, might just give you a bright perspective…blessings to you…
Hope the cloud lifts soon. Just go out and walk. By the way, have you got a pet? It makes a difference to daily life in the most positive way.
Discover that you really aren’t the mind, but that which observes the mind and that moods, good and bad are the product of the mind, which you are not by virtue of your ability to observe them. By shifting your identification away from the mood and the mind and into the observer, the grip of a bad mood diminishes from lack of attention and investment.
Ditto exercise.
Not knowing anything about your habits, if you use alcohol, cut back or stop. It is a mood elevator for a moment, and then a mood killer over time.
Read “Desiderata”
Help the needy.
@josie Thank you for mentioning Desiderata! It never fails to lift my spirits.
Whenever I’m feeling like that, or not feeling well in general, I tend to go back to my childhood or young adult hood or, really, just simpler things.
Reading comics like Calvin & Hobbes, Bloom County, or pre-religious Wizard_of_Id or watching sitcoms because they’re rarely complicated. Stacked, Too Close For Comfort, Red Dwarf, or the like.
Go out with your friends and take part in group activity
Watch cheerful movies.
Those little funks you can get trapped in are merely inflection points, a sign that you need to reflect on why you are feeling bad. For me it’s usually that I have been over working and not treating my body properly or not working hard enough on something fun and kind of festering on the couch. It always seems to come back to the fact that I’m not moderate enough in my lifestyle. Getting out of it usually means resolving the offending behavior or lack of behavior. Short-term solutions are best met with exercise. A day long hike in the mtns usually does it for me.
Repeating myself, here is a link that will lift the spirits of even the most morose person.
http://safeshare.tv/w/OXHZUxUXXN
It was performed in the glass and light atrium of The Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. Don’t read anything into this (or the fact that the conductor wears a yarmulke).
May I have the next dance?
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