Having noticed the first signs of vile mood, discouragement or a wave of depression in yourself, you should immediately take measures. If you do not do this, you can poison not only your life, but also other people’s.
We offer you a list of exercises that help to fetch one’s wind and see the world in colorful paints again.
1. Fall in love. Preferrably with a real person, not James Bond and Ricky Martin.
2. Read an interesting book. It is desirable to choose optimistic writers for reading: Paulo Coelho, Richard Bach, Aldous Huxley, Daniel Defo, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, etc.
3. Arrange privacy, light candles and sit in the dark, looking at the flame of a candle. Initially, thoughts will hum, like bees, and then cease, and you will be able to look in yourself and finally determine what is the main for you, and what is the vanity of vanities.
4. Go to an exhibition of artists-futurists, pictures of nature.
5. Turn on dance music and dance from the heart. The more exotic music is, the greater the effect will be! Choose any ethnic motives of an unknown South African tribe, and imagine yourself wearing a skirt of young bamboo shoots, just do not arrange fire in the room!
5. Write a poem. You may not use rhyme. This also helps.
6. Draw a picture. You can be completely abstract, as for doctors of psychoanalysis.
7. Buy yourself something «for the soul», «body» and just without a reason (shopping is the surest means of combating spleen).
8. Watch some inherently easy and beautiful film. Necessarily with happy end.
9. Engage in meditation.
10. Go to a disco. Be sure to watch male striptease.
11. Read jokes sites. Especially about today’s political situation.
12. Go to the cinema. Eat pop-corn, be satisfied with special effects and film’s budget.
13. Engage in experimental cooking. This should be something delicious and beautiful.
14. Look through some male magazine. Laugh at some silly advice in «sex» column.
15. Go to someone’s place. You can do it without warning - this way it is more interesting.
16. Take a walk in a beautiful park, forest, garden, park, etc. Preferably with someone.
17. Go somewhere far away, on any transport, including walking. It can be another city.
18. Debate about feminism with a nice stranger.
19. Buy a lot of gifts for your close people, pack them in a beautiful gift paper, experiment with decoratiom ideas and occasions.
20. Go to the theater. Better for comedy.
21. Hang out with old friends in a cafe.
22. Arrange a hen party.
All these measures are sure to help you come to yourself.
At this stage it is possible to think a bit about how to prevent another stroke of bad feelings in future. If you are prone to heart-searching - it’s time to rethink your life. If you feel bad, it means that something is wrong with your life. There were cases where ugly wallpaper, bad haircut, or inconvenient footwear were among causes of depression. And sometimes people had to change work, location and life partners. Understand what you do not like in life to such an extent, that even endorfinies are no longer available. And take action. And then everything will be fine.
