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10 Ways to Start Your Day with a Good Mood

10 scientific ways to boost up your mood.

Here’s 10 easy tricks that reduce stress and boost bliss and don’t cost much time or money!

  1. Eat Chocolate – There’s a reason why biting into a candy bar feels heavenly – chocolates sends feel-good chemicals throughout your body.
  2. Listen to Slow music – A study published in the British medical journal Heart found that listening to slow-tempo music like classical or “easy-listening” songs reduced hearth and respiratory rates.
  3. Breathe Deep! – Recent reasearh suggest that takeing long, deep breaths for just 10 minutes a day can lower blood pressure. By breathing deeply, the body gets the oxygen in needs to function at optimum levels – plus the technique is free, and portable!
  4. Schedule a Short Siesta – in reasearh from the National Sleep Foundation, participants who napped for 10 minutes in the afternoon experienced a bigger boost in mood and cognitive function than groups who napped 5,20 or 30 minutes.
  5. 5. Get some Natural Light – Sunlight trigges the body to produce vitamin D. For most people, just 10 to 20 minutes will do. lack of Vitamin D has been linked to depression in some studies.
  6. 6. Smell the Herbs – In a study at Western Oregon University, the smell of lavender relieved feelings of tension after anxiety-provoking tasks. Get your favourite bath soak or candle in a lavender scent.
  7. 7. Pet Bonding – Reasearch at the University of Missouri at Columbia found that a few minutes of playing with four-legged friends raises level of good-mood-inducing brain chemicals serotonin oxytocin.
  8. 8. Shop Around – Studies show that shopping releases the joy-inducing chemical dopamine in the brain. Evan Browsing actives the pleasure center in the brain.
  9. 9. Walk Around – A recent study published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise found that a 30-minute walk can bring on feeling of well-being.
  10. 10. Wear a Rainbow – Want a burst of pep? Slip into something red and yellow. Research has shown that such “hot” colors trigger a chemical reaction in the body that mimics a mini adrenalin rush.

I tried all of this and it really works! so amazing!

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  1. LovLee

    On June 25, 2008 at 10:55 am


    Allen thanks for this piece… so young you are but very informative. I will have to put your advise in my daily routine.

    http://www.triond.com/users/LovLee

  2. sho*

    On June 26, 2008 at 9:45 am


    it really help’s me alot….
    thanks!!!

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