How to turn bad moods into good moods?

@mayrah (1144)
United States
November 20, 2010 9:17am CST
We have different moods at a time, sometimes when you just wake in the morning something around you makes you feel irritated and immediately switch your mood into bad. Maybe there's something in your dreams that made fee upset. I do believe we have the power to turn our bad moods into good if we will choose.For example we can try to wear a happy smile. Try not to notice others fault. Try to compromise you expectations. When we expect too much there's a tendency for us to feel upset when people don't meet our expectations. I just observed happy people are those who stay cool and calm despite annoying and irritating situation. How about you? How do you turn your bad moods into good moods?
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11 responses
@MasonM (107)
• United States
20 Nov 10
Well the best way to turn a bad mood into a good mood is to eliminate whatever is the cause of the bad mood.
@mayrah (1144)
• United States
21 Nov 10
How about if it was something like a bad news that can't be eliminate
• Philippines
20 Nov 10
It's basically just shifting your awareness to something else. If you can manage to focus your undivided attention to something funny or happy then it's sure gonna take your mood from bad to good.
@mayrah (1144)
• United States
21 Nov 10
Oh, I agree diverting your attention is a good way too.
@edigital (2709)
• United States
21 Nov 10
Surf internet and read the life story of renowned peoples and prophets or from your religious book. Count down from 1000 to 0 (lol) i.e. 1000 999 998 like this upto zero.
@apsara60 (6610)
• Israel
21 Nov 10
Hello mayrah........nice discussion.....life is full of problems and most of the time we are in bad moods. But now a days I have found a very good solutions to change my bad mood into good mood. And this solutions is listing some good songs and music........it really helps......give it a try. After I get engrossed in listening to my favorite songs, I completely forget the reason for which my mood was low. My mind is refreshed and I feel new strength to move forward and that is what I do. When there are problems, there are also solutions.....so never give up.
20 Nov 10
Well I always feel much better from almost any situation by watching my favourite and most hilarious sitcoms. You can laugh in almost every situation and for me, laughter really is the best medicine. Talking to people you care about (not necessarily about what problems you're dealing with but any random topic) is also good. I also agree that you can't get too upset if you set your expectations low. That's what I do about most things because then, I can't get disappointed even though I secretly hope for the best. =)
@mayrah (1144)
• United States
21 Nov 10
wow, that's a good way of managing you moods. my prob is I was very moody persona and sometimes people around me are affected by my mood swings (lol)
@nadrolski (220)
• Philippines
21 Nov 10
bad moods always happen to me especially in the mornings. some of the ways i do to turn those bad moods into good ones are by sleeping or taking a nap, but not during my working hours lol, sometimes during my break time; also by eating like there's no tomorrow until you tummy aches; but the most effective way to get over it is to DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM until it gets resolved.
@ansi09 (151)
• Tunisia
20 Nov 10
Like you said, the best way to keep the good mood is to stay away from other people's nagging,LOL, & try hard not to let their actions & deeds sour your mood. Another important thing, don't let people know you angry about them or something they did, e tolerate as much as you can, i know it sounds hard, but keep the nerve for yourself, haha Anger & seeing other people's fault & Defects can really kill the good mood you have, one should never compare other people's thoughts & beliefs with his, coz he'll just have a heart attack if one do so,LOL. So my opinion is, be as tolerate as you can, keep the anger & critisim inside you is better than souring a good relation with a friend or a relative.
• India
20 Nov 10
the best method to turn our bad mood into a good mood is by reminiscing our good memories with our friends, family or anyone else. memories are a great way to change our mood. well i have read in a journal that pretending and smiling forcefully gradually changes our mood and finally changes our mood.
@calpro (930)
• India
20 Nov 10
I will tell you the ways I follow to change my mood from bad to good. Play with my kid Read my favorite book Listen to music Talk to my wife Sit for meditation Analyze the reason for bad mood and work on it Write a blog about life management(should try) Out of these something or the other will work and a smile is back on my face Happy Living Calpro
@Freezole (246)
• Malaysia
20 Nov 10
when it come to bad moods..this is really problem to me..it can't easily turn to good moods, it take time to recover.anyway, this moods things doesn't effect my actions. Things i must do is still proceed even in bad moods but the quality and result will be different.
@lyan08 (119)
• Indonesia
20 Nov 10
sit down and try to relax and listening my favourite music.