Hello there, you. Hope you doing all right today. People listen to this podcast for a few

different reasons, I've been told. Some of you listen, you say, because you want to learn about

other people, but a majority say they listen because they want to learn more about themselves.

Or they want some magic brain hack. Even in therapy people who sometimes say they want to learn some

sort of trick or something to help them with how they're feeling. And I say to them, what I say on here,

that our feelings are there for a reason. We shouldn't be trying to stop them because they end up just

pushing back harder. We need to

listen to what we're feeling, to work out what might be missing. But there's a vicious circle with our

mood that if we're feeling low for some reason, that sadness or whatever it is can actually

stop us from thinking straight. And we might need to do

something to try and lift our mood a little bit so that we can then look at it and see what was

going on. And that's what I want to talk a little bit about today, because we've all had those days

where everything just feels a bit off. You wake up feeling a bit flat. Maybe something

insignificant sets you off. You drop your toast, but aside down. Suddenly the whole day feels

crappy. Sometimes there's a reason and sometimes it's just the weather in our heads. And that's

how I like to think of it. That moods are like

emotional weather. Sometimes sunny, sometimes stormy, but always temporary. But we can help ourselves

to shift a bit. So first up, watch your body language. It's funny how we don't realize just how much our body affects our mind.

If you're slouched, frowning, looking at the floor, you're telling your brain that you feel low,

and your brain being helpful in the way that it often is, says, oh, sad are we?

I'll give you some chemicals to match that. So do the opposite.

Sit up straight, lift your chin. Let the muscles around your eyes soften. Maybe even smile a little.

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