Actions, thoughts, and feelings are the ingredients that make a mood, and each one has the power to influence the rest. That means one positive adjustment to any of those ingredients can begin to turn your whole mood around.
It also means that one negative feeling, action, or thought can kick off a bad mood spiral and bring you down. To keep that from happening, here’s what we recommend:
- Feelings are hard to change, so try changing another ingredient.
- You can change your thoughts, but it’s easiest to change your actions, so start by focusing on your activities.
- The more times during the day that you counter a bad mood with positive activities, the better you will feel.
So, just because your day starts off bad, doesn’t mean it has to end bad. You can make things better at any time by using just one positive mood ingredient to your advantage.