Manage Your Emotional Habits and Thought Patterns: 1. Lifestyle changes

Embracing positivity through external stimuli: music, sunlight, shower

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Emotion

Emotion is basically a response expressed in a feeling manner. When we think of something sad or listen to a sad song, our mood will be low and everything around us can seem bleak. Think about operating a vending machine. if we put in the right amount of coins, it gives us what we want to feel happy. If we don’t have enough coins, we simply won’t get what we want.

Have you ever heard the expression “you reap what you sow”? Basically, you get what you pay for in the analogy of the vending machine.

Seeking emotional positivity

When we don’t feel good, we can feel better by seeking out metaphorical coins to access what we want from the vending machine. There are some free “coins” that can often give us some good candy, but we have to make the effort to get them:

● Listen to some upbeat happy music. Pop music can reliably be sugary and upbeat,

but any musical genre you enjoy can work too, as long as the music is up-tempo.

● Take a break and immerse yourself in a different space, such as taking a 5 min

walk under the sun. Research has also shown that taking the time to be outdoors in

nature has positive impacts on your happiness and emotional wellbeing.

● Take a quick shower or wash your face with icy cold water.

These exercises break up the funk you’re in and switch into a different physical environment that either energises you (upbeat music), calms you down (walk under the sun) or stimulates you (shower/washing face with cold water/hot bath).

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