Mood cycle
I would definitely never rate myself as a detail oriented person but I do confirm that there is a strong relationship between the things we do and our mood. I can just say that it is a strong relationship that won’t be easy to break until we recognize the side effects of it.
I think most of us had felt this before and maybe you’re feeling it now as I’m doing ; When you’re feeling like crap, you don’t want to do anything. When you’re feeling depressed, upset and bad, it would be so difficult for you to be engaged in any activity or more and less any talk. You’ll be too lazy to walk up from your bed and go to pee.
On the flip side, when you’re feeling happy and glad you likely enjoy any activity that comes first. When you’re feeling excited you will be celebrating happiness, joy and excitement “ dancing, drinking and hanging around with people you have never met”. And here, we can talk about our mood that will be well functioning trying to reach the top of high functioning anxiety in one hand and trustworthiness in the other hand. And this would be happening according to what we feel inside and want to do. Let’s go deep and talk about low and high mood.
Nowadays, people are unable of finding out what they like or want to do which lead them be emotionally and physically unstable. Most of them are suffering from low mood; they are too lazy to do anything and if you ever asked them to at least smile they would rather die than showing their teeth. A strong feeling of depression, anxiety, loneliness, solitude and sorrow is conquering their bodies and threatening their well being.
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Namely, the ones who are spending their typical day staying in front of the TV, just watching, sleeping and eating are for sure suffering from low mood. It would be so hard to convince them to walk up and see the sun because they are refusing to be engaged in any other activity. And the main question here how could we figure out that we are having a low mood or more specifically depressed mood? The answer might be simple but it’s deep;
- You stop seeking out any things that bring pleasure in life
- Your mood remains low because you aren’t doing enjoyable activities.
- You continue not to engage with anything, making this cycle repeat.
The concept looks simple but it’s affecting our daily life preventing us from being productive. A full negative cycle is damaging our life because simply we are giving up and still blaming the circumstances. But also we can find the opposite side of this cycle! and here we can talk about people with high mood who are enjoying their life because they are aware of this relationship and how far it can go. You can see them everywhere; your friend who is inviting you out to go shopping, enjoying the sun or only to bla bla talking, your coworker who is coming to work full of energy and self motivated just to be productive.
You see! Now we can notice them, and most likely be one of them. Life is going anyway, it won’t wait for us till we get rid of our negativity.
A simple key! We are the monitors.. and we can control. Instead, we can break out of this negative cycle and fully join the human race like it has been said “ wake up, walk up and join the human race “
To be continued..
