One Quick Trick To Raise Your Mood

Forget positive thinking. Try negative thinking instead.

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Despite your best intentions, it is entirely possible that you did not leap out of bed this morning singing like a lark, ready to embrace the wonder and pure possibility that is today.

I sure didn’t.

I am not by nature a morning person. Yet I have morning life. There is my day job awaiting me, with people who are counting on me to be competent, responsive and pleasant to be around.

Not the fog-brained, blank-faced ass-dragger I would be if I didn’t take certain measures.

Hence, a daily morning practice of yoga and meditation, neither of which seem all that remarkable while I’m doing them, but taken together have a salubrious effect on my perspective and attitude. Also, coffee.

I Spent Twenty Minutes Meditating Every Day For a Year

Still, there are times when lifting my spirits feels like trying to pick up a manhole cover with my nose. I’m not talking actual depression here, just an off mood, and a mighty temptation to indulge it. Without intervention, I am…