Being your fantastic self and feeling positive all the time is not possible. Life is unpredictable and inconsistent. Some days, you feel nothing but doom and gloom with or without any reason.
Needless to say, it is not a pleasant experience and anybody would want to snap out of it as soon as possible. And when it comes to matters of the mind, you need to be extra conscious of how the handling of challenges like this is done.
‘Just feeling down’ can very easily spiral down to depression and worse in a matter of time. Now is the age of mental health awareness and such issues should be solved promptly. Here are some suggestions to get you started.
1. Meet up with an old Friend
Spend some time with an old childhood friend will be a very happy experience. As you recall and relive all the good times together, you understand that feeling low is just a temporary thing.
2. Hydrate yourself
Have a drink of your choice. Tea, coffee, fresh juice, smoothy, wine- you name it. The basic idea is to pump fluids into your system which instantly relaxes you.
3. Listen to festive/celebratory Music
There is no specific time window to get into a particular mood or enjoy something nice. Life itself is supposed to be a celebration, so go ahead and put on some upbeat, recreate happy moments when your mood needs to be uplifted.
4. Get a Massage
Massage therapy has been known to lower stress, decrease anxiety and reduce irritability. Along with increasing brain dopamine and serotonin, the combination of these effects lead to a happier individual.
5. Practice Gratitude
Having gratitude for all the good things in life will act as shield to protect you from negativity and depressing thoughts. Practicing gratitude gives you an optimistic mindset.
6. Do Hair Spa
Massaging your scalp helps in relaxing a great deal. It also increases blood circulation in scalp and promotes hair growth. In the end, you will feel better about yourself and find yourself in good mood expecting the positive effects of the spa treatment to show up.
7. Set a Daily Routine
The predictability of a routine helps to have better stress levels, gives you time to relax and have better sleep. You will also be punctual about food and exercise, which in turn leads to a healthy lifestyle and hence, better mental health.
8. Pamper your Skin
Taking the effort to nurture yourself and improving your appearance is helpful for your psychological well-being. When your skin looks good, you tend to feel better about yourself.
9. Alone time
Being alone with yourself and your thoughts is all you need to recharge sometimes. Taking a break from the world around you and its happenings for sometime is extremely relaxing.
10. Paint something
Mix colors, smear them around and get expressive with it. Colorfully expressing your inner thoughts will be quite relaxing. You can also try coloring books and trace out shapes.
11. Try a DIY project
Try out concepts and find out how creative you can get. Trying out DIY projects gives you a sense of accomplishment, unadulterated happiness and a sense of satisfaction.
12. Watch Cartoons
Get to the basics of entertainment and watch cartoons, preferably your favorite childhood cartoons. Appreciating the simplicity of concepts and reliving your carefree childhood days improves your state of mind instantly.
13. Enjoy a night out
Enjoy the night time fun you can have when you can! Go for a long drive, go to concerts, party with friends and family. Dine out and enjoy the dance floor. This will help you improve your mood.
14. Blow Bubbles
Bring out the inner child and blow out a few happy bubbles. This will not only help in improving your mood, but also makes you inhale and exhale rapidly, pumping oxygen into your body.
15. Journal your Thoughts
When feeling all down and low, try pouring out your thoughts and emotions on paper. This will give you deeper insights into why things are the way they are and will help you find solutions.
16. Try a new Hairstyle
Change the way you look. It will be a change from your usual self, and in turn make you feel different. Try new hairstyles to suit your new personality which you are manifesting.
17. Write a Letter to yourself
Pen down a love letter to yourself, appreciating your own qualities and acknowledging how fabulous you are. Express your love to yourself. Set it aside to take it out and read again whenever you are feeling low.
18. Play with your Pet(s)
Pets can help manage loneliness and depression by providing companionship and unconditional love. Playing with pets can decrease blood pressure, cholesterol levels and triglyceride levels.
19. Plan a Trip
Plan the next vacation in advance. It can be helpful in visualizing a better time ahead and staying positive. The hopes of happier times ahead helps you push through the difficult phase.
20. Connect with Nature
Walking barefoot on the grass is very much beneficial to balance bodily energies. Spending time with nature soothes nerves, improves concentration and boosts mood.
21. Meditate
Meditation is the most effective way to relax and reduce stress. Just consciously sitting still and concentrating on your breathing is deeply beneficial to strengthen the subconscious mind.
22. Get Sunlight
Getting proper sunlight is helpful in regulating hormones in bodies. Exposing yourself to sunlight reduces stress, strengthens immune system and helps improve sleep.
23. Visit a place with favorite Memories
Visiting a place with pleasant memories is like going back in the past and mentally reliving the happy times. Gratitude filled nostalgia is helpful in raising your spirits.
24. Watch a Comedy
Watching comedy shows makes you cheerful. It helps relax muscles, relieve stress and makes your body produce ‘happy hormones’. As it is widely known, laughter is the best medicine.
25. Change your Interiors
Move your furniture around, try a different setting. Paint a different color on the walls and try to decorate differently. A small change of scenery can break the monotony and rescue you from the mundane.
26. Watch Pleasant Videos
What would be more refreshing than watching flowers bloom in nature, cute little baby animals playing around? Simply watching rain, waterfalls, beauty of nature, happy people are enough to feel instantly happy.
27. Learn a new Skill
Learning something new keeps your mind engaged and your body active. It opens up new opportunities for you and increases your adaptability.
28. Research a Topic
Try to gather information about some topic of your interest and immerse yourself in the fascination of new knowledge coming your way. Stay intrigued and learn more to avoid feeling blue.
29. Move around Town
Drive around and walk around. Physically shifting yourself out of a place will also help shift your mood. Shifting your attention from your feelings to sights, smells, sounds and experiences can be very helpful.
30. Do Puzzles
Go ahead and try out a crossword, sudoku or any other ‘solution finding’ activity which stimulates brain and creates constructive thoughts. The small feeling of accomplishment and the joy of trying out something will help you.
31. Sing
Get goofy and sing your heart out. Singing is an effective stress reliever, helps to have better sleep, and helps cope with pain.
32. Stretch
Simply stretching your body and getting your blood and energy flowing is an effective way to go from low vibe to high. Doing stretching exercises can be helpful to the body too.
33. Go Shopping
Shopping is a rich source of mental preparation. Mentally visualizing how they are going to enjoy the products is effectively visualizing a new life. This greatly improves the mood.
34. Explore a new place
Drive to a nearby town or village and explore it. Visit the shops, walk through the streets, converse with local people and find out the opportunities the place has to provide.
35. Cook Food
Treat your self to a hearty meal by cooking yourself your favorite food. Focusing on creating your dish and serving yourself greatly stimulates self-love and instills self-worth. And tasty food always makes you happy.
36. Exercise
Exercise improves mental health by reducing anxiety, depression and negative mood. It improves self esteem and cognitive function.
37. Take a Royal Bath
Draw yourself a luxurious bath. Put on music, bring out your bath salts, essential oils, fragrant candles and bath accessories. You can even read a book or meditate with crystals in your bath.
38. Play
Play some game of your interest, with or without friends, athletic or otherwise. Being in the sporty spirit alone lifts your spirits and so does the activity stimulate your brain and hand-eye coordination.
39. Clean your Place
Simply de-cluttering and refreshing your home or room, deep cleaning everything in your space can create quite a positive impact on your mood.
40. Go Window Shopping
Surf shopping websites, go to a mall or visit a trade fair. Surrounding yourself with new things helps you envision living a better life enjoying the things you love, which in turn fills you with hope. Ogling at material things makes you aware of the options available around.
41. Sleep
And do it without guilt. Close yourself out of all the happenings and influences in your brain, around you and the world and get a good many hours of deep, comfortable sleep to recharge yourself totally. For more tips on how to sleep better, visit : https://blushfairies.com/8-steps-to-sleep-better/
42. Dance
Dance around in your home, lighten the mood and move your body. If you are a professional dancer, practice for sometime. Shaking up your body instantly shifts your vibe.
43. Read a Book
Fiction is a great escape from reality. And it may also contain valid information about how to improve your life along with a lot of free knowledge. Grab a book whenever you start feeling low.
44. Run
One of the biggest advantage of running is its mood-boosting effects along with various other health benefits. Go running around the house or yard or locality whenever you start feeling the blues.
45. Vent out
Call your best friend or sibling or parent or life partner or a therapist and talk out all your accumulated burden of thoughts and feelings. Once you let it all out of your system, you will feel lighter and happier. All you need is a patient and non judgemental listener.
46. Do Gardening
Gardening can help you reconnect with nature and find beauty in the small everyday details of nature that go largely unappreciated. Nurturing for someone or something is a deeply relaxing and rewarding activity for your mind.
47. Go for a Walk
Walk around your neighborhood or in a park. Walking is beneficial to improve your blood circulation, lighten your mood and has numerous other health benefits.
48. Connect with Neighbors
Make something for your neighbors, like a special dish or a gift. Catch up with them once in a while and spend quality time together to strengthen a sense of community, which will be helpful for your mental health.
49. Plant something
Plant a tree or sow seeds and watch them grow. Taking care of them and observing the miracle of nature unfold with your help is positive enough to better your mindset.
50. Get Charitable
Visit an orphanage or an old age home and spend time with the people you meet there. Donate money and things to a relevant cause. Such deeds help us get humbled and be grateful towards what we have in life.
51. Read a Religious Text
Scriptures contain information on how to live up to your highest potential. They are a huge source of inspiration to better yourself and let go of negativity.
52. Visit a Spiritual Place
Spiritual places are the centres of positive energy and faith. Spending some time in such places can be beneficial in elevating your energy levels.
53. Use Motivational Quotes
Search and find out motivational information that you need. Simply shifting your perspective is all you need to create a better future. Print out posters or write motivational quotes and position them around the space you use.
54. Pray
Prayer can be helpful in instilling a sense of hope and manifesting what you prefer in life. Pray to the god or deities of your belief and the universe will be helpful in improving your state of mind.
55. Move around
Shift from a place of familiarity to someplace new. Walk or drive or travel to some new space even if it is just for running an errand, which may help bring new experiences and as a result, a new perspective. At the least it will break the monotony.
While it is healthy to get expert advise and go to therapy in extreme cases, it is often advised to not let a low vibration energy state continue for a long time.
Practicing these small uplifting activities should help a person to bounce back to normalcy or even better- a healthy and cheerful self.
We must all practice mindfulness and consciously maintain a positive outlook towards life and also encourage others to do the same.
