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A mood is temporary state of mind

• Mood: A temporary state of mind or feeling. Oxford Dictionary
• Mood: The way you feel at a particular time. Cambridge Dictionary
• Mood: A state or quality of feeling at a particular time. Dictionary.com
• Mood: A conscious state of mind or predominant emotion. Merriam Webster
• Emotion,  Attitude,  Personality

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Mood is like internal weather …    

• The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter. Blaise Pascal  

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… and can be affected by external weather    

• I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood. Bill Watterson  
• Clouds suit my mood just fine. Marie Lu  
• It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky. Muriel Spark  

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Our moods constantly change    

• There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. Thomas Carlyle
• The memory has as many moods as the temper and shifts its scenery like a diorama. George Eliot
• Change,  Impermanence

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Accept ups and downs in mood as a natural part of life and don’t attach too much importance to it    

• Ups and downs are normal. Being ill on occasion is normal.  Feeling peaceful and happy are normal.  Occasional low- energy days are normal.  According to Chinese medicine, it is accepted as natural that we fluctuate from being in balance to being out of balance.  Peace of mind comes from not attaching a great deal of significance to either state.  We simply note our moods and physical states and gently move toward balance as best we can, accepting it all as part of the flow of life.  Charlotte Davis Kasl
• Acceptance,  Life is an ebb and flow

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Let moods flow through without clinging to a particular mood    

• The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change, for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. Charles Morgan 
• Letting go

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Detach from your mood knowing it won’t last    

• Practice detachment. This is the best way to experience feelings without letting them control you.  Think of an old steam locomotive—it comes roaring into the station full of power, noise, smoke, bells, lights—a huge, overwhelming experience.  But we have some ability to choose whether we get on board or not.  Distance yourself somewhat from mood and emotions:  they are part of you, but not all of you.  They won’t last forever.   Richard O’Connor

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The mood you’re in has a strong effect on how you see your life    

• Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. Ralph Waldo Emerson  
• Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. Wendell Phillips
• Perception,  Interpretation

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Low moods can lead to distorted thinking    

• Thoughts help define which mood we experience in a given situation. Once a mood is present, it is accompanied by additional thoughts that support and strengthen the mood. For example, angry people think about ways they have been hurt, depressed people think about how unfortunate life has become, and anxious people see danger everywhere. In fact, the stronger our moods, the more extreme our thinking is likely to be. This does not mean that our thinking is wrong when we experience an intense mood. But when we feel intense moods, we are more likely to distort, discount, or disregard information that contradicts our moods and beliefs. Everyone thinks in these ways sometimes. However, it is helpful to learn to recognize when you are thinking in distorted ways because this understanding provides a first step toward more balanced thinking and mood states. Dennis Greenberger, PHD and Shristin A. Padesky
• Negativity,  Thinking

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Therefore, never analyse your life when in a low mood    

• Don’t allow yourself to be fooled by your low moods. People do not realise that their moods are always on the run. They think instead that their lives have suddenly become worse in the past day, or even the last hour. A low mood is not the time to analyse your life. In low moods we lose our perspective, and everything seems urgent. Life is almost never as bad as it seems when you’re in a low mood. The trick is to be grateful for our good moods and graceful in our low moods – not taking them to seriously. Richard Carlson  

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Never ruminate in a low mood if you can help it    

• Imagine you’re in a bad mood—frustrated, anxious, whatever. Research tells us unequivocally that that’s NOT the time to ruminate on what’s going on. Brian Johnson  
• The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased. Sonja Lyubomirsky  
• When we ruminate, we become fruitlessly preoccupied with the fact that we are unhappy and with the causes, meanings, and consequences of our unhappiness. Research has repeatedly shown that if we have tended to react to our sadness or depressed moods in these ways in the past, then we are likely to find the same strategy volunteering to ‘help’ again and again when our moods start to slide. And it will have the same effect: we’ll get stuck in the very mood from which we are trying to escape. As a consequence, we are at even higher risk of experiencing repeated bouts of unhappiness. Mark Williams 
• Worry

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Never make major decisions in a low mood    

• Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. Robert H. Schuller  
• The general guideline then is: Good mood = good decisions, Bad mood = bad decisions. I am taking ‘bad mood’ to include times of pressure, stress and time constraints, and I am not saying that all decisions made in such circumstances are bad decisions. Instead, it’s more likely that we will make poorer decisions or decisions that are wrong when we are in a ‘bad mood’. David Mc Dermott  
• When you are in a low mood, don’t make important business (or life) decisions. Don’t force it. Your thinking and wisdom are not as sound as they will be in a higher state of mind. Richard Carlson
• Decision making

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Never criticise your own work in a low mood    

• One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. Charles Horton Cooley
• Criticism

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Never mix bad words with a low mood    

• Dont mix bad words with your bad mood. You’ll have many opportunities to change a mood, but you’ll never get the opportunity to replace the words you spoke.  Nishan Panwar   

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When in a low mood, be real    

• There’s no point in pretending you’re full of sunshine when internally you feel like crying or screaming. You’re entitled to feel the full range of emotions and express what’s on your mind when you need to. Don’t worry about bringing other people down; you’ll only do that if you dwell in negativity. If someone asks what’s wrong, be honest: “I’ve had a rough day, I don’t feel so great, but I’m sure I’ll feel better when I… Lori Deschene  

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Keep a mood dairy to monitor what dampens and lifts your mood   

• Document your feelings somewhere personal and completely private. This will be the place where you let out your darkest thoughts, no holds barred, because you don’t need to worry that anyone will judge you for them. A diary can become your collaborator in the struggle against your depression because it eventually provides you with great evidence of what improves your mood as well as what brings it down. Dr Sabina Dosani  

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Identify what starts your mood changes    

• Identify your feelings and moods. Depression is a self-destructive effort to avoid feeling. Accept that emotions are natural and helpful. Learn that mood changes don’t come “out of the blue” — they are always started by an event, a memory, a dream. Identify what starts your mood changes.  Richard O’Connor  

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Mood changes can be triggered by thoughts    

• Learning to identify automatic thoughts will help you understand why you feel the way you feel in different situations. The more you pay attention to your thoughts, the easier it is to identify several thoughts tied to a mood. Dennis Greenberger, PHD and Shristin A. Padesky

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Mood changes can be triggered by unfelt feelings    

• Mood changes do not come out of the blue—mood changes are always caused by an unfelt feeling. The feeling is usually triggered by an interpersonal event, although sometimes it is just a response to a memory, something we read about, or hear on television.  A Mood Journal can help us monitor our own moods to help detect the feelings underneath. Trust that there is always a precipitant to a mood change and use the Mood Journal to help analyze the connections between events and the change in mood.   Richard O’Connor
• Emotions,  Let go of emotions through mindfulness

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Mood changes can be triggered by the emotional pain body    

• Watch out for any sign of unhappiness in yourself, in whatever form—it may be the awakening of the pain- body. This can take the form of irritation, impatience, a somber mood, a desire to hurt, anger, rage, depression, a need to have some drama in your relationship, and so on. Catch it the moment it awakens from its dormant state. Eckhart Tolle
• Pain

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There are several ways to lift and influence your mood    

• It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts. Stephen Covey
• Mood has to be controlled. Otherwise, it’s your master.  Toba Beta  

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Lift your mood through exercise    

• Exercise is like a vicious cycle in reverse. It leads to increased energy, which leads to a better mood, which leads to more exercise, and so on.  Dr Steve Ilardi  
• Exercise now…and again. A 10-minute walk can improve your mood for two hours. The key to sustaining mood benefits is to exercise regularly. Jeanne Segal  
• Michael Craig Miller, M.D., summarizes what scientists have been uncovering for several decades, regular exercise ‘improves your mood, decreases anxiety, improves sleep and resilience in the face of stress and raises self- esteem.’ Shawn Phillips
• Physical activity is an excellent stress-buster and provides other health benefits as well. It also can improve your mood and self-image.  Jon Wickham  
• Your brain releases chemicals known as endorphins during and after exercise that act as natural mood boosters. Valerie Johnston
• Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. To us, exercise is nothing short of a miracle. Cher 
• Exercise

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Lift your mood through eating the right foods    

• Eating well is important for both your physical and mental health. Eating small, well- balanced meals throughout the day will help you keep your energy up and minimize mood swings. Jeanne Segal  
• Foods rich in certain omega-3 fats called EPA and DHA can give your mood a big boost. The best sources are fatty fish such as salmon, herring, mackerel, anchovies, sardines, and some cold-water fish oil supplements. Canned albacore tuna and lake trout can also be good sources, depending on how the fish were raised and processed. Jeanne Segal  
• Minimize sugar and refined carbs. You may crave sugary snacks, baked goods, or comfort foods such as pasta or french fries, but these “feel-good” foods quickly lead to a crash in mood and energy. Jeanne Segal  
• Stock up on nutritious, easy-to-eat foods such as soup to keep your strength up while going through drug or alcohol withdrawal. Be especially sure to focus on your protein intake. This will help keep your blood sugar level stable, which in turn helps keep your mood on an even keel. Anthony J. Colleluori  
• Food,  Diet

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Lift your mood through music    

• In order to change a person’s mood with music, you must first begin with music that reflects the state he is in to start with. If you’re feeling depressed, you cannot simply put on “happy” music to change your mood. It must be done slowly and carefully. Dr Alice H Cash
• I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that’s just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that. Shaun White  
• The kind of music I like depends very much on my mood. Anni-Frid Lyngstad
• Music

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Lift your mood by getting plenty of sleep    

• Sleep has a strong effect on mood. When you don’t get enough sleep, your depression symptoms will be worse. Sleep deprivation exacerbates irritability, moodiness, sadness, and fatigue. Make sure you’re getting enough sleep each night. Very few people do well on less than 7 hours a night. Aim for somewhere between 7 to 9 hours each night. Jeanne Segal
• Sleep

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Lift your mood by getting into nature    

• To heal mine aching moods, give me God’s virgin woods. Clinton Scollard
• Nature

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Lift your mood through relaxation techniques    

• To effectively combat stress, we need to activate the body’s natural relaxation response. You can do this by practicing relaxation techniques such as deep breathing, meditation, rhythmic exercise, and yoga. Fitting these activities into your life can help reduce everyday stress and boost your energy and mood. Lawrence Robinson
• Relaxation

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Lift your mood through mindfulness and meditation    

• Later studies showed that if “normal” people practiced mindfulness, they experienced the kinds of brain changes that are associated with positive moods, and their immune systems were strengthened. I would like to point out here that if a patentable drug were showing such results, the drug company owning the patent would soon become the richest in the land, and we would be seeing at least three television commercials per night touting its benefits.  But because mindfulness seems so simple, yet at the same time requires self- discipline, it’s not going to generate such heat.   Richard O’Connor  
• Studies have shown that being mindful increases activation of the left prefrontal cortex and thus lifts mood (since that part of the brain puts the brakes on negative emotions) and it decreases activation of the amygdala, the alarm bell of the brain. Rick Hanson  
• Zen, which means meditation, is all about training the mind to succeed in right effort—to succeed in tossing out negative and harmful emotional states and replacing them with positive feelings and thoughts. Larry Shapiro
• Mindfulness,  Meditation

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Lift your mood by allowing yourself to feel what you need to feel    

• I have learned to pay a lot more attention to mood swings and see them as what Arnold Mindell describes to be “time spirits.” They are energies, inclinations and even emotional reactions in a given moment at a given place that are authentic, however only truly last a few seconds or minutes, but typically not an entire day or week. Oftentimes we find ourselves in a funk and then seek the rationale or legitimacy necessary to stay there instead of connecting with the feeling for what it is, just a feeling. A bad mood does not give us license to take out bad behavior on others or even expect others to cater to our mood.  These days, I seek to stay more conscious and present in my life so that noticing and honoring my moods actually allows me to feel more “here” instead of “there.  Jeffrey Sumber, M.A.  

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Lift your mood by smiling    

• No matter how much madder it may make you, get out of bed forcing a smile. You may not smile because you are cheerful; but if you will force yourself to smile, you’ll end up laughing. You will be cheerful because you smile. Repeated experiments prove that when man assumes the facial expressions of a given mental mood– any given mood- – then that mental mood itself will follow. Kenneth Goode  
• Even if you don’t feel like it, the mere act of smiling repetitively helps to interrupt mood disorders and strengthen the brain’s neural ability to maintain a positive outlook on life. Andrew Newberg
• Smiling

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Lift your mind through kindness and giving to others    

• The big finding was that people experienced longer-lasting improvements in mood from the kindness and gratitude activities than from those in which they indulged themselves. Jonathan Haidt
• We scientists have found that doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well- being of any exercise we have tested… Here is the exercise: find one wholly unexpected kind thing to do tomorrow and just do it. Notice what happens to your mood.  Martin Seligman
• Kindness,  Service,  Giving,  Making a difference

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Lift your mood through constructive action    

• Activities seem to particularly help depression if they involve pleasure or a chance to accomplish something (even something very small). Therefore, just learning to look for pleasure or accomplishment in the things you do may help you feel better.  Dennis Greenberger, PHD and Shristin A. Padesky  
• Sometimes when you’re down, it might feel like you have to stay there. But the truth is we can influence how we feel by choosing what we do. Sitting around sulking causes prolonged sadness. Doing something proactive will help you start to feel better. Lori Deschene  
• You have much more control over your behavior than you do over your thoughts or emotions so paradoxically the best way to master your emotions is to let them be, stay relaxed, and focus on constructive action. So, accept your emotions as natural to you in the moment, without trying to fix them. Know your purpose or goal—not someone else’s. And, do whatever you need to reach that goal, whether or not your emotions or moods help or hinder you. Dan Millman
• The heart of accepting your emotions and reclaiming your will is to do what you need to do despite what you are feeling. Accept and learn from your feelings, but don’t let them run your life. By remaining productive during difficult emotional episodes, you are more likely to improve your emotional state than if you do nothing but ruminate and wait for sunny skies. Daniel Goleman
• Action

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Lift your mood by dismantling negative beliefs    

• Evidence showing that our beliefs are not completely true can be hard to uncover when we are experiencing a strong mood. Yet, looking at the evidence both for and against our conclusions is the secret to reducing the intensity of the mood. Dennis Greenberger, PHD and Shristin A. Padesky  
• Be certain to notice and remember all the little things that suggest that your negative core belief is not 100% true. Noticing small positive experiences is particularly important to counteract an automatic tendency to remember the small negative experiences that support our core beliefs. By actively looking for small experiences that contradict our negative core belief, we ensure a better balance to our views. Dennis Greenberger, PHD and Shristin A. Padesky  
• Belief

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Lift your mood through replacing negative thinking with balanced thinking    

• Although our thoughts influence mood, behavior and physical reactions, positive thinking is not a solution to life’s problems. Most people who are anxious, depressed or angry can tell you that ‘just thinking positive thoughts’ is not that simple. In fact, if we do try to think only positive thoughts when we have a strong mood, we may miss important signals that something is wrong. Dennis Greenberger, PHD and Shristin A. Padesky  
• Positive thinking tends to ignore negative information and can be as damaging as negative thinking. Alternative or balanced thinking takes into account both negative and positive information. It is an attempt to understand the meaning of all the available information. Dennis Greenberger, PHD and Shristin A. Padesky  
• The more an alternative or balanced thought is believable to you, the more it will relieve the intensity of your negative feelings. If you simply provide a rationalization or a positive thought that you do not believe, it is not likely to have a lasting impact. Dennis Greenberger, PHD and Shristin A. Padesky
• Negativity,  Positivity

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Lift your mood with sunshine    

• Lack of sunlight can make depression worse. Make sure you’re getting enough. Take a short walk outdoors, have your coffee outside, enjoy an al fresco meal, people-watch on a park bench, or sit out in the garden. Aim for at least 15 minutes of sunlight a day to boost your mood. If you live somewhere with little winter sunshine, try using a light therapy box.  Jeanne Segal
• Sunshine

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Lift your mood by writing about your vision    

• Research showed that people who wrote about their visions for twenty minutes per day over several days, relative to those who wrote about other topics, were more likely to show immediate increases in positive moods, to be happier several weeks later, and even to report fewer physical ailments several months thence. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Vision,  Writing

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Lift your mood through sex    

• Sex increases levels of endorphins, those mood-boosting chemicals in the brain, and it’s one of the best total-body relaxers around. Louanne Cole Weston
• Sexuality

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Lift your mood by changing the stories you tell yourself    

• Sometimes when you’re in a bad mood, it’s tempting to cling to a story that justifies it, and then retell it over and over like a picture book you’ve heard a million times. And then he said this…And then I did this…And then I messed up… Visualize yourself closing a book and taking a new one off the shelf. Then start telling yourself a different story—one where you’re not a victim, one where you’re not powerless, one where you’re accepting what happened and moving on so you don’t lose anymore time to that other book. Lori Deschene
• Stories,  Letting go of the story of self

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Lift your mood through yawning    

• Yawning helps us relax. It lifts our moods. It’s good stuff. And it’s free. Patt Lind-Kyle  
• Yawning

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Lift your mood by slowing down    

• Chronic speediness has many bad effects: It activates the same general stress-response system that evolved in the brain to protect us from charging lions, which releases nerve- jangling hormones like adrenaline and cortisol, weakens your immune system, and wears down your mood. Rick Hanson  
• Slow down

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Lift your mood through humour    

• At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I’ve been in a generally good mood ever since. Marilyn vos Savant
• Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Humour,  Laughter

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Lessen mood swings through the practice of equanimity    

• The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to develop certain trains of thought. If we feel sad or angry, still others. But suppose, with training, we become nonattached to distractions and learn to dampen these wild, emotional swings on either side of equanimity. Then we can enter that serene awareness which is the natural soil for positive, spontaneous personal growth, often called spiritual growth. James H. Austin  
• Equanimity

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Don’t blame anyone for your moods    

• To know oneself is to try not to blame others for one’s troubles and moods; to have a sense of what’s going on inside oneself, and what actually belongs to the world. Alain de Botton
• Blaming

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Don’t identify yourself with your moods    

• We are not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts. Stephen Covey

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More ways to lift mood    

• Tell your close ones how you feel.  
• Take a power nap. Even five minutes is helpful.
• Go for a walk
• Use a thought record.
• Count your blessings.
• Allow yourself to feel what you’re feeling.
• Plan fun activities.
• Talking about the things that are bothering you.
• Play or cuddle up with your furry friend.
• Do something that brings you joy.
• Indulge your senses.  
• Listen to music you love.  
• Go outside and breathe in the fresh air.
• Stick to a regular sleep schedule—even on the weekends.  
• Eat foods rich in omega-3 fats.
• Include a small amount of lean protein at every meal and snack.  
• Eat often and eat light.
• Limit refined carbohydrates.

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Learn to act and remain committed in spite of your moods    

• We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we’re not in the mood to act. If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you’re willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.  Harv Eker  
• I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. Pearl S. Buck  
• Commitment means staying loyal to what you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you. Orebela Gbenga
• First of all, the practice of an art requires discipline. I shall never be good at anything if I do not do it in a disciplined way; anything I do only if “I am in the mood” may be a nice or amusing hobby, but I shall never become a master in that art. Erich Fromm
• Being diligent in your practice should not depend on your mood of the moment. Whether your meditation session is enjoyable or irritating, easy or hard, the important thing is to persevere… It is when you don’t feel like meditating that it might have the most beneficial effects, because at those times meditation is working directly against some obstacle that stands in the way of your spiritual progress. Mattieu Ricard
• Commitment

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Integrity is subordinating your moods to your values    

• Integrity (from the same roots as the word integrated) comes when a person’s words and behaviors match up. True integrity—the true test of character—is to live what you say is important to you—even when you don’t feel like it—to live your values above and beyond your moods. James Arthur Ray
• Proactive people recognise they are responsible for their choices and have the freedom to choose based on principles and values rather than moods or conditions. Stephen Covey  
• You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values. Stephen Covey
• We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of others based upon their own principles and their own value system rather than their moods or anger. Stephen Covey  
• Values,  Integrity

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Realise that moods can have a strong impact on addictions and cravings    

• Many people with addictions have a co-occurring mood disorder (anxiety or depression). These moods can themselves become triggers for food or drug craving, increasing the risk of relapse. Anna Rose Childress, Ph.D.
• Psychological factors can also influence the intensity and nature of our food hankerings. Studies on mood have found that our emotional state normally has a greater impact on cravings than hunger. Cristen Conger  
• Addiction,  Cravings,  Food cravings

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A persistent low mood can mean depression    

• The hallmark of depression is a persistent sad or “empty” mood, sometimes experienced as tension or anxiety. Life lacks pleasure. There is often a nagging fatigue, a sense of being unable to focus, a feeling of being unproductive. There is usually difficulty concentrating, remembering, and making decisions. Guilt and excessive self-blame may take the form of negative, accusatory thinking.   The negative mood distorts reality to create a negative world.  Richard O’Connor  
• Depression

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Be sensitive to the moods of others …    

• The secret of man’s success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them. Josiah Gilbert Holland  
• Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood. Isaac Asimov  
• The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood. Lou Holtz  

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… especially those of your partner    

• Take responsibility for your own mood, not your partner’s. You cannot control your partner’s mood. You can influence it, meaning with a strategic response you can increase the likelihood that it will improve, but that won’t happen if your strategy is simply to indulge your own emotional reaction. Alex Lickerman, M.D.  
• All moods are temporary. The key is to find a place of equanimity while your partner is in a bad mood. Ideally, you’d like to become a person who, when your partner is in a bad mood, remains not only perfectly supportive, but also internally intact. That may mean you need to take some emotional—or even physical—distance from them (the challenge there, of course, is how to do so without seeming to abandon your partner emotionally). It may mean you need to engage in an inner dialogue to find within yourself amid all the negative emotions your partner’s negative emotions may trigger in you your most compassionate self. But in the end, that’s what a bad mood in someone else represents: an opportunity to exercise your compassion. Alex Lickerman, M.D.

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When someone is in a bad mood, give them space to be    

• If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity. Joyce Meyer  

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Positive moods bring positive benefits    

• Happy moods, no matter what the source, lead people to be more productive, more likeable, more active, more healthy, more friendly, more helpful, more resilient, and more creative. Sonja Lyubomirsky  
• This may be because happy people frequently experience positive moods and these positive moods prompt them to be more likely to work actively toward new goals and build new resources. Sonja Lyubomirsky

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Calm contentment is an ideal neutral state on the mood spectrum    

• My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum—what I called emotional sea level—is not happiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice. Andrew Weil  
• We have already seen the importance of aiming not for intense positive moods but simply an increased frequency of moderately positive ones as the pathway to overall better wellbeing. Raj Persaud
• Contentment,  Calmness

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• They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody? Princess Diana
• Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around. Bill Watterson
• Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you’re in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender. Guy Finley  
• Women are not moody. We simply have days when we are less inclined to put up with crap.  Karen Darby  
• I lost my mood ring and now I don’t how to feel about it.  Tracy Morgan
• I’m not crazy. I’ve just been in a very bad mood 40 years!  Shirley MacLaine
• If you get in the mood to do some work, someone will always wake you up.
• Most people make babies out to be very complicated, but the truth is they have only three moods: 1. Just about to cry 2. Crying 3. Just finished crying.  Dave Barry
• My father would take me to the playground and put me on mood swings.  Jay London
• The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.  Lou Holtz
• They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody? Princess Diana
• When I was a boy my mother wore a mood ring; when she was in a good mood it turned blue; in a bad mood it left a big red mark on my forehead.   Jeff Shaw

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