Blogger: Nicole Ng

Bad mood? Everyone hated it! As for me too… Because a bad mood, ruin my whole day!
How to get over it? Here are some techniques I did to draw on when come to difficult times of getting bad mood.

• Pick a piece of uplifting music and listen to it. Listen to fast bit music that can lift me up. Enjoy dance! Of course in my private room.

• Find someone I grateful for and express my gratitude to him/her. I love to express my gratitude especially to my lovely mother; I think would same as you too. Mother always our good listener, she gives us support when we needed, she guides us to the best way from her own experiences. She is the best, I am proud to be her daughter.

• Recall something or someone who makes me happy and daydream about it or him/her. Usually I will think someone I love or a special trip or place I have been or want to go. I love sitting on the island watching the wave in and out, listening to the wave sound. In June, I went to Pulau Perhentian, Terangganu with my best friends and we spent several evenings at an outdoor and watching the sun set over the water. We sat on the beautiful sand and listening to the beautiful wave sound. It is a place I often return to in my daydreams.

• Focus on what I have been ignoring. I like to read book or novel and try to focus on what I have been ignoring for so long.

• Get some exercise. I will go for swimming. Do you know? Swimming increase our heart rate and stimulate our muscle activity is easily accomplished in the water. Swimming a few laps can help us cool-down, move blood through our muscles to help them recover, and help us relax as we glide through the water. Not like others activities, swimming can be alone, no need to involve group of people, I can swim anytime, any style I like.

• Stay in the present. Appreciate the mundane by focusing on the activities without thinking like eating, bathing, walking. Somehow, I will think of how good the water feels in the shower, how soft or hard the ground feels on the feet or just silently eats my meal and really tastes it.

• Take a break and have a cup of tea. I may sit quietly for 15 minutes. Keep mind blank. You know why? Often the silence is enough to change our mood. Sitting quietly keeping our mind off everything brings us back. I particularly like doing this, having a cup of hot tea with families or friends after dinner.

• Find some healthy food to eat. I like chocolate, especially dark chocolate. When I was in bad mood, I will go to the nearest market to buy a bar of dark chocolate. Chocolate is plant-derived, as are the fruits and vegetables recommended for a healthy heart. Eat “A Dark Chocolate a Day Keeps the Doctor Away”, said Daniel J. De Noon, a medical, editor and communications consultant.

• Sing favorite song with or without the radio or stereo on. I like to sing song. Well, I have my own KTV, guess what? Singing at my private bathroom while taking bath, save cost and provided excellence sound effect! Good idea!

Everyone expresses themselves in his own unique way. So, what about you? How you act when you were in bad mood? Just share with us by dropping a message in this blog. Whatever method works out for you and me, hope everyone was able to find a SMILE!