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10 Ways to Start Your Day with a Good Mood

by Allen Bernard Pilapil in Advice, June 22, 2008

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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