Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

I'd like to offer you a quick mood shifter today. Sometimes when conversations get heavy or even in our mind

if something feels uncomfortable and we're stewing on it. Our mind is obedient and thoughts attract like thoughts.

It's the same in conversation if you're talking about something heavy and

uncomfortable and it's making you feel sad or scared, I would like to offer the idea of introducing a very quick and easy mood shifter.

Okay? The good news about our brains being obedient is that they can go in any direction.

The tricky news is when we don't control them, we can go in these downward spirals.

We can go in these spirals that make us feel very anxious, that make us

feel afraid, that make us our bodies feel tense. But when we're conscious and when we introduce consciously different thoughts, different topics, different subjects, we can shift how we feel in an instant.

I did this with a group of friends the other day. We got talking about the

state of a few things in the world and it got a bit, look a bit depressing, right? And by talking

about it, we're not helping anything.

It's one thing to take action, right, to get out there

and help solve some problems.

But just sitting and talking about it doesn't help anybody

and it just makes everybody feel bad. So my favorite very quick mood shifter

is to just talk about something or think about something

light and distracting.

Right, introduce a change of subject in your own brain if you're alone or in conversation

if you're with a group of people.

Talk about your new hobby.

Talk about a great movie that has just come out that you really love or a new TV series.

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