Wear something soft
The texture and weight if what touches your skin can have an immediate impact on your level of happiness and contentment. Soft materials stimulate the skin's most delicate pressure sensitive nerves, which increases your brain's production of the mood-boosting hormone oxytocin.
Have some cider
Sipping a mug of hot apple cider (I would prefer hot cup of MILO) reduces edginess, tension and anxiety for up to 76 percent of women within five minutes. The apple cider's sweet tangy aroma stimulates nerve clusters in the brain that can soothe and relax your entire central nervous system.
Daydream
Spending a few minutes a day visualising and mentally rehearsing is a clever way to handle life's frustrations. Daydreaming about yourself calmly and confidently tackles day to day stressors by stimulates the release of mood elevating dopamine.
Clean out the clutter
Spending 20 minutes sorting and tidying a messy corner of your home, cupboard or office space slows down the production of adrenaline and other mood sabotaging stress hormones by 45 per cent which helps you feel calmer and more relaxed for up to the hours.
Calm down with vanilla
Odours affect your moods by activating the limbic system ( the emotional switchboard of your brain). When a distinct scent like vanilla reaches this emotional control centre it elevates up your brain's production of electric impulses that produce a calmer happier and more contented mood, within three minutes.
Get a fruit boost
Women who eat two cups of fruit daily are more optimistic and upbeat then those who do not eat fruit. The complex carb's in fruit increase your brains production of the antidepressant hormone serotonin by as much as 50 per cent. The more serotonin you produce the steadier your moods and the more cheerful you feel.
Massage your mood
Touch stimulates the brain's endorphin-producing pituitary gland. Massage cuts your blood levels of cortisol, the anxiety-triggering stress hormone and shifts brainwave activity from the right side, which churns out negative emotions to the left side which handles positive feelings.
Dance away the blues
After nine weeks of dancing with the combination of exercise, rhythmic motions and uplifting music, this will prompt the brain to produce a larger and steadier supply of serotonin.
Give anonymously
Making donations to charity can trigger production of the feel good hormones oxytocin and dopamine. Giving anonymously reminds you that you are helping because you are a good and caring person not because you would like approval or recognition from someone.
Use earplugs at night
If you are being kept awake at night by noise then use earplugs to shut out those sounds that stop you from sleeping soundly.
Order the fish
The brain nourishing omega 3 fats found in fish can cut your risk of depression by as much as 250 percent.
Embrace the sounds of silence
Spend 30 minutes twice a day somewhere quiet with zero background noise. Ahhh peace and quiet!!
Take vitamins with breakfast
Your ability to absorb nutrients peaks in the morning, so take your vitamins with your morning meal.
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