Boost your mood in 15 minutes

Life Kit

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🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Sometimes you're just feeling blah: the weather's bad, you can't get out of bed and you're struggling to shake off that listlessness. In these moments, the solution is often simpler than we think. This episode, NPR's science desk and Life Kit staff present research-backed mood boosters to instantly shake yourself out of a slump and turn your day around.

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0:00.0	Christian nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule.
0:07.0	If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you.
0:12.0	I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely
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0:20.2	Boise State Public Radio, part of the NPR Network.
0:24.0	You're listening to Life Kit from NPR.
0:28.0	Hey everybody, it's Mariel. The other day I woke up feeling sad and I wasn't really sure why. It just got worse as the day went on. I started wondering, what is bothering me? Is it a dream I had?
0:44.8	Am I stressed about something? Some unresolved trauma I should dig up. Then around
0:50.8	2.30 in the, I finally had lunch.
0:54.0	I bit into a juicy salmon burger with pickles and aioli on top and realized,
1:00.0	oh, I was just hungry.
1:03.0	Yeah, bad moods.
1:05.0	Sometimes they have a big underlying emotional reason,
1:08.0	and sometimes they're a signal that we need to meet one of our basic bodily needs,
1:12.0	like eating or drinking water or talking to another human.
1:15.1	Now let me be clear, it's okay to be in a bad mood. As we know from inside out, all of our emotions,
1:21.5	sadness included, serve a purpose purpose but let's say you want to pivot
1:25.6	there are a lot of things you can do on this episode of life kit with help from
1:30.0	NPR Science Desk we are gonna hand you a menu of research-backed mood
1:34.0	boosters. These are actions you can take when you've got less than 15 minutes to
1:37.8	spend and you want to escape that gloomy cloud hanging over you. Just a note
1:42.4	here, none of these actions on their own
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