How to Get Past Bad Moods and Their Affect On You [Episode 906]

Topic: How to Get Past Bad Moods and Their Affect On You

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Summary

Understanding Moods and Their Impact on Our Bodies

In this episode, I delve into the fascinating topic of moods and moodiness, exploring how they can physically affect our bodies. We’ll uncover the root causes of mood swings, including stress, sleep deprivation, and diet, and I’ll share powerful tools and strategies to help you overcome those challenging bad moods. I can’t stress enough the transformative power of exercise, meditation, and gratitude in uplifting our spirits. Through personal stories and practical tips, I’ll guide you on how to reframe negative thoughts and emotions, empowering you to cultivate a more positive mindset. Join me as we navigate the journey to a brighter, more balanced emotional state!

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STUDIES AND RESEARCH

Causes of Bad Moods

Stress and Life Events:

Research has consistently shown that stress and significant life events, such as job loss, relationship problems, or health issues, can trigger bad moods. A study in the Journal of Behavioral Medicine (1981) found that daily hassles and minor stressors have a more significant impact on mood than major life events.

Sleep Deprivation:

A study published (1996) in the journal of Sleep found that sleep deprivation negatively affects mood, cognitive performance, and motor function (Pilcher & Huffcutt, 1996).

 Diet and Nutrition:

A study in Nutrients (2016) highlighted the relationship between diet quality and mental health. It found that poor dietary habits, like high intake of sugar and processed foods, are linked to increased symptoms of depression and bad moods (O’Neil et al., 2016).

Effects of Bad Moods

Cognitive Function:

Bad moods can impair cognitive functions such as memory, attention, and decision-making. A study in the Journal of Emotion (2001) showed that negative mood states can lead to more analytical and less intuitive thinking.

Physical Health:

Research in Psychosomatic Medicine (2002) that chronic negative moods can increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases and weaken the immune system (Kiecolt-Glaser et al., 2002).

Social Interactions:

A study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology demonstrated that bad moods negatively affect interpersonal relationships, leading to increased conflict and reduced social support (Gotlib & Hammen, 1992).

Strategies to Manage Bad Moods

Exercise:

Numerous studies have shown that physical activity is effective in improving mood. A meta-analysis in Psychosomatic Medicine (1998) concluded that exercise significantly reduces symptoms of depression and anxiety (Craft & Landers, 1998).

Mindfulness and Meditation:

Research published in JAMA Internal Medicine indicated that mindfulness meditation programs can improve mood and reduce stress (Goyal et al., 2014).

Social Support:

A study in the American Journal of Psychiatry (1985) found that strong social support networks can help mitigate the effects of stress and improve mood (Cohen & Wills, 1985).

Long-Term Impact and Prevention

Gratitude Practices:

A study in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2003) found that individuals who regularly practice gratitude experience improved mood, greater well-being, and reduced symptoms of depression (Emmons & McCullough, 2003).

Healthy Lifestyle Choices:

Research in BMC Public Health (2008) demonstrated that a combination of regular physical activity, healthy eating, and adequate sleep contributes to long-term mood stability and reduced incidence of mood disorders (Khaw et al., 2008).

Professional Help:

A study in The Lancet Psychiatry (2016) emphasized the importance of seeking professional help for persistent mood issues. Psychotherapy and medication are effective treatments for mood disorders (Cuijpers et al., 2016).

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Kimberly Snyder (00:00.844)
Namaste loves welcome back to our Thursday Q &A show. I hope you’re having a wonderful week so far. And if you’re not, I’m here to help lift you up and support you however you’re feeling today, which has to do with our show our topic which is around moods and moodiness, which has a very real physical effect on our bodies. It affects our mind, it affects our mindset, our

ability to see things in terms of abundance or in terms of lack, our fulfillment, our peace, so many ways in which our moods dramatically affect our lives. And so the title of our show today is How to Get Past Bad Moods and Their Effect on You. And there’s a lot of tools around this. I used to get into moods. I still do, of course, we all do. But I used to get into funks sometimes and I would just

have the same repeated thoughts, I would feel like this isn’t fair or why didn’t the day work out the way I wanted it to or you didn’t show up for me the way I wanted you to. And it was almost like going on repeat over and over again. Meanwhile, I was staying in this suspended state of now we know from the research, which we’ll talk about today, lower states of functionality in our organs, lower immunity.

having more cortisol, more stress, less resilience in our bodies. Just our bodies breaking down more because we’re not in this full flow of expansive energy and vitality. So in effect, when we are in a bad mood, we are actually wasting a lot of our energy and we don’t want to waste our lives. So there’s a lot of tools. First of all, as we get into our show today, we will talk about some of the causes of moodiness and some very real ways that we can start to prevent moodiness.

And then some tools and strategies about how to get past when that bad mood starts to hit or you find yourself in the throes of feeling really low, negative, having those repeated thoughts. So I have a lot to say about this topic. I’m very excited to dive into it. Before we do, little reminder that the show notes will be on mysaloonit .com. You can check out links to other shows I think you would enjoy.

Kimberly Snyder (02:17.07)
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as well as many other ways in which you can use the power of your heart to elevate your health and your entire life. We also have developed a new Glow -in -Greens powder, which if you haven’t checked out yet is a wonderful booster to your GGS, a very powerful mix of plants for your daily vitality. Okay, all that getting said, let’s get right into our show today. Our question comes from Charlotte in Tennessee. Charlotte, thank you so much for participating.

When you bring these questions to the forefront, it helps so many people because a lot of us are challenged by the same things. And when I heard this topic, moods, I said, yeah, I’ve been there. I know how this can feel. I know how it can drag us down and destroy the potential of that day. We don’t want to do that. Every day is precious. So why else do we don’t want to push down feelings?

Moods are different. Moods are when we feel stuck in an energy. So we’re not digesting that feeling. And we definitely want to have some tools for doing just that. So Charlotte, you write, hello, Kimberly. I love your podcast. I wanted to ask you about bad moods. I seem to get into them a lot and I struggle to get past them. So what can I do and how does a bad mood affect my body as it feels different when I’m in a bad mood? There’s a lot of science around this.

Kimberly Snyder (04:31.746)
And this is where it’s very powerful to acknowledge. This is what we come from at with our Four Cornerstone perspective. It’s really important to acknowledge that we are whole beings having this holistic experience. So what seems psychological actually becomes the physiological. It actually does affect our body, the thoughts that we think, the feelings that we’re having. If we are in these suspended states of anger or frustration or sadness, prolonged sadness,

And we’re not processing and digesting these emotions through just like we would food. There is an effect on our endocrine system, on our digestive system, on our immune system. So there’s a lot of science that backs this up. There’s a lot of science in my new book. By the way, it might be the most science forward of all my books, but useful, really practical science that’s coupled with energetic and spiritual information about how simple it is.

to actually turn on the power of your heart. How simple it is to actually break free of these moods and of these thoughts if we have these tools of getting out of our head. So before we get into some of the science, I wanna read a passage from Paramahansa Yogananda who talked a lot about moods. And he talked about moods because he could see in humans and he came here, he’s the one, the yogi who brought yoga to the West from India.

And in America, and I’m sure in India, he could see how moods really held back people’s lives. And it could mean in the workplace, it could mean that we don’t tap into emotional intelligence. And so we drag down our relationships. We don’t communicate as well. People don’t want to work with us. People don’t want to stay in close friendships with us or in intimate relationships with us. And also it,

holds back our spiritual progress because when we’re in a mood, we’re definitely not going so deep into our hearts and into our true selves in meditation. We’re stuck on a level of ego and thought, which is really where the moodiness lives. So this is an essay that was taken from, it’s a talk that was turned into an essay called Overcoming Malignant Moods. And this was all the way back from March 5th, 1939. Wisdom holds up to this day and beyond.

Kimberly Snyder (06:56.268)
And this is from a book, a collection of Yogananda’s talks called Man’s Eternal Quest. So I’m just going to pull out a couple sentences, a couple of the passages I think really apply.

Yogananda says, moods are not easily defined, but you know what they are. When you are in a mood, your behavior is not natural. You are not the person you should be. The end result is that you feel wretched and how foolish it is to be unhappy through your own doing. No one likes misery. Why not analyze yourself next time you are in a mood? You will see how you are willingly, willfully making yourself miserable.

And then he goes on to say moods are like cancer. They eat into the peace of the soul. That is why the moody man cannot rid himself of his troubles. Remember, no matter how wrong everything has gone for you, you have no right to be moody. In your mind, you can be a conqueror. When bested, the moody man admits defeat. But the man whose mind remains unconquered, though the world be in cinders at his feet, is yet the victor.

So he goes on and on about this in many different pieces of wisdom here. The last thing I’ll say from this essay is by continuously giving love to those who are unkind, peace to those who are harassed by worries, sweetness to those who are bitter, joy to those who are laden with miseries, and by constantly setting a better example for those who follow the path of error.

You destroy moods by keeping the mind creatively busy.

Kimberly Snyder (08:42.51)
If you can’t be busy outwardly, be constructively busy inwardly. So there’s a lot of things to pull out from that. Number one, moods are a choice. They’re a pattern though. They can feel like they aren’t a choice because they become a really strong neural pattern, meaning we get triggered, a memory goes off in our amygdala, it’s part of our brain that stores, especially our response to different, our emotional response to different triggers.

And so we find ourselves as someone says something or something does something or they don’t do something and something doesn’t work out, we go into a state of whatever it is. Overwhelm, frustration, anger, fear, right? We just get into these moods. As Yogananda says, it warps our natural behavior. So what we want to do is we want to start to pull ourselves out of these patterns.

You know, I keep going on about this heart stuff because I’m going to be sharing more here. I’m going be sharing more in this upcoming book. For me, it’s been a really powerful tool to come into the heart where there are 40 ,000 neurons and there’s a type of brain in the heart. And you start to get out of your head because sometimes we hear, we’ll just settle, get out of the thoughts, get out. When we come into more heart coherence, which I’ll be teaching you, we’re going to be putting up some heart aligned meditation tracks on the site soon, which has been proven to increase

coherence 29 % an average of 29 % in four weeks, we start to change our thoughts. We start to create more of a baseline of calmness. And as Dr. Roland McCready researched and found from the heart bath, when we change our baselines, it means we change our responses. We’re able over time to more easily not get in the moods and over time coming into our heart, doing what’s called heart focused breathing.

And I’ll share here tips right away before even the comes. Finding a few moments, seconds to look around the room, to lift yourself out of that intensity of focusing on that situation and shift to something that makes you feel appreciative, grateful. Just shift, learn to break the pattern. Get up, get out of your seat, go for a walk. Try not talking for a moment if you’re spewing out at your partner or your friend.

Kimberly Snyder (11:04.258)
keeping yourself in that suspended state of anger. This shouldn’t have happened and blah, blah, blah, and this sucks and whatever else is coming out. Just try not talking about it for a moment, shifting your bodily position, shifting your mental position by going into your heart and just take a few deep breaths. Take a moment to soothe yourself, regulate yourself and reframe. And then once we take a break, because the pattern…

of a mood is that we’re thinking the same circular thought pattern and it keeps us suspended. So in order to break out, we need to start to learn to do something different. So that’s the first thing I’ll say. We’ll get into more tips, more specific tips in just a moment. But first I wanna talk about some of the causes of bad moods. What really triggers us here? There’s a lot of stress and life events that can help, that can make us feel thrown off.

Again, our bodies created neural patterns about stress and stress responses. So something happens, I feel this way. There’s traffic that’s unexpected, I start to swear or I get really angry while I’m sitting in my car or something unexpected happens at work and I lay my head in my hands and I just feel completely sidetracked and angry and overwhelmed, whatever it is. It’s like this happens, this happens.

A study in the Journal of Behavioral Medicine found that daily hassles and minor stresses have a more significant impact on mood than major life events. Why is it that all these little daily stressors keep us in moods? Well, for number one, these add up, they’re cumulative. So a little bit of stress means a little bit more stress, which means that our body is in a

deepening state of sympathetic nervous system overdrive. We are in a state of fight or flight. We become more reactive. Things bother us more than they should. So our child having a tantrum, sometimes we can just feel this explosive anger because of the 10 things that happened earlier. And then we start to feel that sense of, you know, life is so hard. Why do I even try? What’s going on here? Right.

Kimberly Snyder (13:20.172)
We need to understand that we need to have tools, number one, to begin the day more resilient, which I’ll be talking about in a moment. And number two, we need to process and digest each stressor and come back to a state, to a better baseline of calmness, instead of just pushing it down, ignoring it, moving on to the next thing, right? This is very similar to digesting food. We want to sit with, okay, that I felt this annoyance.

But let me keep taking some deep breaths here and let it pass through. Otherwise that annoyance actually is in there and it keeps building and building. And this is why daily stressors are one of the reasons that we often find ourselves in bad moods. Number two, sleep deprivation. This is quite obvious, but important to recognize and highlight here. A study published in the Journal of Sleep found that sleep deprivation.

deprivation negatively affects mood, cognitive performance, and motor function. If you want to give yourself the best chance of being in a good mood, please value your sleep hygiene. Please create a regular pattern of sleep. Please value this more than finishing that new show or that amazing new movie. We need to use our will and say, what’s the most important thing here in my life? Feeling good tomorrow?

having a great day or seeing the ending of this. I’m just going to pause it. I’ll watch it tomorrow. Watch the second half tomorrow. Really sticking to our, you know, molding our life around what is the most important thing. Because otherwise we don’t say no to things. Otherwise we find ourselves just chatting on the phone a little bit too long or having that second or third glass of wine. If we have a really clear vision of what we’re trying to create in our lives.

which for many of us here in our community is feeling really good, right? The title of our show. It doesn’t mean feeling cheerful and overly happy all the time, but feeling good means feeling connected to yourself, feeling rested, feeling rejuvenated, feeling that we are in touch with our feelings, feeling that we are making the best choices that we possibly can, feeling we are connected in our relationships with others, feeling connected to our hearts.

Kimberly Snyder (15:43.47)
Feeling good, feels good to be kind and loving. And all of this is best supported when we are in a rested state. So whatever it takes to do that, to create that, create your evening routine, which I’ve talked about so many times, journal in the evening, take that warm shower, drink the warm elixir, have that ginger tea, put yourself back in touch with your body, take your detox, give yourself a little bit of a foot massage or an oil massage to soothe yourself.

My older son who’s eight now, he’s wired a lot at bedtime. So even last night, said, mama, you rub my back. This is a practice we do. We have a little chat at bedtime and I rub his back and it signals to his body to start to calm down. We talk about something that happens, that happened in the day, it helps him process things and the touch helps to soothe his body. So create those practices for yourself.

And the next part is diet and nutrition. so a study in nutrients highlighted the relationship between diet quality and mental health, showing that sugar and processed foods leads to depression and bad moods. So if you need another motivation to cut out the junky processed foods, here’s another one. So we had a recent podcast with Dr. and Dr. Kate,

Kimberly Snyder (17:06.638)
wrote a book about seed oils. We will link to it in the show notes. And what she was talking about was how prevalent it is in Dr. Kate Shanahan, how prevalent it is in junk food, in pretty much anything that comes in a bag is often made with vegetable oils. And these types of oils,

have an effect on our brain. And they’ve seen this in Petri dishes when they add the seed oils in, it has an effect on the dendrites, the branches, little branches that come off from the brain and it makes us feel lower in energy. It’s not congruent with the natural biology of our body. So it has an effect. It has a detrimental effect. It weighs us down. It makes us feel less than our fullest alive vital selves. And also the sugars.

So it’s important to have natural sugars in the diet. believe fruit is, whole fruit is really important so that we feel that natural madura, the sweet taste of Ayurveda. But at the same time, and I have done a cleanse myself even recently, I was getting into a habit of just eating a sweet every night after dinner and it was getting to be a little bit much. This happens in phases. It’s good to be self -aware. We never get to this place of a perfect diet. So I was having a cookie.

a lot of vegan cookie or vegan ice cream. I love coconut ice cream. And so I just sort of didn’t keep it in the house anymore. My kids like freezies. So it’s just, you know, keeping some things in there for them if they wanted them. But I would just go back to tea. And sometimes I would put I love raw honey. I’ll put that tea in there. But I sort of broke that habit of having so many sweets after dinner. So just

watch what’s going on in your diet, right? And clean it up. It’s okay. We get off track. Every day we start afresh. There’s never this period where we have to beat ourselves up or make this big deal out of it or this big story. Just pivot. Just shift. It’s as easy as that, right? And sometimes we feel stuck in a pattern. So start to cut sugar out of the first half of your day. Cut the processed foods out. Start to make your own lunch. you bring your

Kimberly Snyder (19:26.648)
You bring your own lunch to work, if you work out of your home, or just make some shifts. And of course on the website, we have lots of amazing recipes for you. I also have a new ebook recipe booklet with some really inspired, incredible new recipes coming that will be part of the pre -sales of this next book. So you can keep a lookout for that. But nutrition as always is such an important part of our moods and mental health. So when we’re in negative moods, I’m going to run through some of this research.

a little bit more quickly and then we’ll get to the tips. Physical Health, the Psychosomatic Medicine Journal found that negative moods can actually increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Moodyness is an energy. Everything is energy. When our bodies, and this is part of what heart coherence does, when we feel really kind and loving in our true nature of compassion and care, don’t you feel the surge of energy?

So it’s actually creating, this is measured in science. The coherence means your organs are actually functioning more efficiently. It means there’ll be less stress happening. There’s a balance of your nervous system. This means there’s just more, literally circulation and energy getting to your heart, getting to your organs, allowing your body to properly detox and cleanse itself. All of this relates to moods.

So there’s a very physical impact. And the Journal of Emotion showed that bad moods can also impair cognitive functions, such as memory, attention, and decision making. We don’t see things clearly. Our reality of the world becomes skewed when we are in a bad mood. It’s like a muddy lens on the windshields of your car where you don’t really see what’s going on. So you can’t really trust yourself to make great decisions, to say the best things.

write the best emails or the best texts when we are not in our natural state of fullness, openness, alertness, being open in our hearts, being aware. This is when our intuition is really turned on. This is when we find ourselves drawn to certain people or certain things. We can trust our decisions at that point because we’re clear. It’s like the mud in the lake has settled down and we can see clearly to the bottom. We’re in a bad mood. We need to focus. This

Kimberly Snyder (21:47.458)
The only thing on the to -do list is to focus on getting more clear before we move on from that. We definitely don’t want to live life from this place. So just be aware of that. Bad moods affect interpersonal relationships leading to more conflict. No surprise there, but this was actually researched and studied in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology reduces our social support. Energy is felt.

When we are in a bad mood, there is literally a difference in your electromagnetic field. it’s whether it’s consciously registered by the other person or not, we hear this term bad vibes. There really is something to that. You can feel it and it pushes people away. And it doesn’t allow you in turn then to feel supported and feel close to others because other people don’t really want to be around you. So this

not what we want to create. So what we want to do is not project our bad mood onto other people, not to take that energy like it’s a ball and start throwing snowballs with it or fireballs, right? If our go -to moods can make us quite prickly or say sharp things to other people, it’s better to, again, put our attention inward as Guruji, as Yogananda said, put the attention

inside of yourself, digest these feelings first. And that way you don’t create harm. We want to do no harm in our lives, right? More more ahimsa, yogic quality. We don’t want to hurt others. We’re here on this path to support others, to support ourselves. And so when we’re in a bad mood, because it makes a bigger mess for yourself to clean up, make your priority just focusing on yourself.

So now let’s talk about what we can do to overcome moods. And there’s going to be a lot of practical information here and tips and strategies. Some of this will be a review. Some of this may be new to you, but it’s really important to take this in so that you have a tool arsenal for dealing with bad moods instead of just feeling like you’re a victim and there’s nothing you can do about it, which can feel really paralyzing. I’ve been there. I sometimes I’ve been in a bad mood, I think in the past for over a day. So you wake

Kimberly Snyder (24:12.96)
and things feel good for a minute and then you remember that you were angry about something. And then sometimes you’re just not able to see something that you don’t want to see. What I mean by that is I remember going on a trip with my previous partner and this was towards the end of our relationship and I was like, well, trying to make things work and we went away on this trip and it was horrible.

And I felt not seen as usual. And there was just this really poor communication and just very surface level. was like just getting through things. And I remember being in a bad mood because it wasn’t what I wanted. It wasn’t this connection and this energy and this wild love that I knew was possible, but wasn’t happening. And so it just continued and I sort of, you

made myself feel better, but looking back on it, sometimes there are things that our moods are showing us where we’re playing small, where we’re ignoring things or pushing things down or not wanting to make that big life change that could really make a huge difference. And so it’s really important that we analyze what’s happening here. And, you know, of course there’s the daily triggers.

that we can rewire. But if there are bigger things that are constantly, maybe you’re in a bad mood every time you show up at your office, maybe it’s time to look at changing your work situation, we want to pay attention to that as well. But on a day -to -day basis, one the most powerful things that we can do is to move our bodies. Exercise has been shown in psychosomatic medicine to reduce the symptoms of anxiety and depression and improve your mood. We want to be clear. We want to keep the body moving.

For me, I like to go on walks regularly. Maybe you’re a gym rat or maybe you like your classes that you take at your local gym or online or whatever it is. Keep the body moving. I remember when I lived in New York City, I just felt so good moving, walking from place to place. would see things. I would listen to music. I would just observe.

Kimberly Snyder (26:25.699)
However you like to move your body, make sure that movement is a regular part of your life so stagnation doesn’t build up in your mind and your body. Meditation can improve mood. No surprise there. This is research published in the JAMA Internal Medicine Journal. So it’s really wonderful to find this inner connection, meaning that we become less dependent on the outside world making us happy.

That is one of the biggest benefits of meditation. Yes, it improves your mood, which is a happy byproduct. But the reason it does for me as I continue to delve deeper into meditation is because we realize that we’re in the world and we want to make this a great life and we want to use our time wisely. But at the same time, we’re not of this world. We’re beyond this world.

We can’t be pinned down into a box. Our energy and our happiness doesn’t have to depend on certain circumstances. There is an incredible amount of vitality and freedom that opens up the more we contact this energy inside of us. It’s not something you can just read about, but something you need to experience in meditation. That which cannot be named, right? As the Tao says, the Tao Te Ching’s ancient text from China. So we want to contact that limitless place.

Now again, as I mentioned, we have a lot of meditations up for you guys already, the Practical Enlightenment meditations. Soon we will be putting up the Heart Aligned Meditations for Adults. There are Heart Aligned Meditations for Children already up. If you’ve checked out our Chilla Gorilla and Lakey Lemur Journey to the Heart Children’s Book, which is about connecting to the heart for children and families. If you haven’t checked it out yet, please.

Get your copy. It’s great for adults. We’ve had a lot of people say how much they love it for themselves. But these meditations are about connecting to that place through the portal of your heart, which is a really powerful gateway, which can open up so much energy. To me, it’s a direct pathway. Sometimes we get lost in the thoughts and these mindfulness meditations and where we’re supposed to put our thoughts, but the heart is right here. The heart is always here to support you. Your heart is an

Kimberly Snyder (28:39.662)
incredible anchor to take you to that place where you can feel free, where you can break free your moods, where you can have a different perspective of life and realize the bigger picture and that you can let go of that mood. You can let go of that mean comment or that person doing this or that in this moment for your benefit, not for that other person’s benefit, but through the heart, you can find that power to say, yeah, I can let

Yeah, I want to have a great day. I want to enjoy this experience. I want to have a nice dinner here. I’m going to shift my own mood. Now, it doesn’t mean we don’t maybe not have to address something with someone or hold up a healthy boundary or have that conversation now or later, whatever it is. But what it means is we can be free of this pattern of being held down and feeling small and bothered by whatever happened.

Kimberly Snyder (29:40.118)
It’s really important to meditate regularly and to start the day on and up. So in the morning, we would ideally have a bowel movement. We would drink our hot water with lemon. We would have our glowing green smoothie, ideally with your glowing greens powder. We’re doing these things to nourish and also to expel, right? The fiber and the GGS keeps things moving. That hot water with lemon has an effect on your agony, on your digestion.

So when we wake up in the morning mentally and emotionally, we want to take pause. We want to see what’s alive in us, right? This means just going inside, feeling any feelings or sensations. Is there anything I need to digest before I start the day? Again, we don’t want any negativity or moodiness from the last day to carry over. So right in the morning, we want to take a moment, close our eyes, breathe down into our hearts.

Go into meditation or go into just sensing, feeling, digesting, processing. We can say an affirmation. I want, you know, I’m here, I’m the heart. I’m in peace. I’m going to have a great day. Whatever you want to tell yourself, I’m going to simply move from moment to moment. I’m going to bring love into every interaction today. I’m going to let love come through me today. I’m going to have a peaceful day. I stay strong and resilient in myself.

could take some time to journal and then very powerfully take some time for gratitude. So for me, I love to journal about lots of things. Sometimes it’s nice to journal about what you’re grateful for and see it on paper. But for me, gratitude is very much an energy that we need to feel through our hearts. So yes, you can write it down, but very importantly, you want to sit back and take that gratitude energy into your heart.

Just feel it. Let’s do it right now for a moment. can place a hand on your heart or just shift to your heart and you can feel one thing that makes you feel grateful. You can feel your child or your grandparent or the son or that beautiful trip you took or your dog, whatever it is. And then just feel this feeling expansively in your heart. And then it starts to become non -specific.

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So we can drop that image of the doggy or the beautiful ocean or whatever it is that makes you feel grateful and just feel abundance energy of gratitude. Now, this non -specific energy is starting to create more coherence throughout your body, meaning that it’s starting to change your neural pathways. There are connections between your heart and your brain, your heart and your brain and your guts.

your heart, your brain, and your nervous system, lots of things start to shift. And what does this mean? This means that you can break out of your mood. So start the day with a simple practice. Go into your heart. Take a minute or two to just feel this energy start to grow. Now, if you find yourself in a bad mood, find a way to step aside for a moment from that dinner table, from your work desk.

even from your child for a moment. you need to go to the bathroom or you can keep the door open if your child’s really young, you can still see them, but just take a moment to come into yourself. Take some deep breaths and experience gratitude. This is, a very powerful way to take you out of that mood. It is an easier heart -based emotion to access when we’re not feeling great than the other ones. We always feel so peaceful when we’re angry.

don’t always feel so compassionate if we’re feeling really overwhelmed or frustrated. But we can find something usually to still be grateful for. Maybe we begrudgingly go into it, but then the energy starts to grow and it gets a little bigger and a little bigger. and then we can come back with a reframed perspective. And the reframe is, well, that was annoying, but I’m going to move on with my day.

That wasn’t cool what that person did. I will address that. I’ll have that conversation, but I feel really calm now and I’m going to say it from this non -emotional place. Keep going and have a great day. Or, you know, it didn’t work out. The restaurant was closed. The weather sucks, whatever. But I’m going to choose to give myself this gift today of a beautiful day. And it doesn’t matter so much what I’m going to do because I’m going to make the best of it.

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to make the most of it. This is another day to be alive here on planet Earth. So we start to reframe this gift of just being here. And this is what it means to be a non -specific gratitude. It starts with the trigger, the one thing that makes us feel grateful, that amazing person in our lives, that amazing love in our cat, whatever.

And then it grows and we realize that this energy is inside of us and we can actually access it at any time. And for me, this is the most powerful way to get out of a mood right in that very moment. Gratitude. Shift, pause, come into your heart, be grateful, reframe the gift of life, reframe that I am not going to do this to myself. I’m not going to throw away.

one more hour moment of my precious life. And then over time, we start to build our, again, coherence capacity, our ability to break out of these dark moods and thoughts faster and faster as we practice some of the heart -based techniques I’ll be sharing in the new book. I’m very excited to get this out into the world. It’s made such a big difference in my life. But for now, some of the other practical steps.

Start the day great, you know, have your hot water with lemon, take your SBO probiotics, drink your GGS with GGP, move a little bit, move through the day, exercise, get enough sleep, take care of yourself, eat a great diet, avoid the processed foods as much as possible and the sugars. And then journal, you know, start to become more aware. What is making me feel moody? Maybe there’s some bigger changes in my life, like this relationship really isn’t right for me and I don’t want to see it or this job.

But then day to day, take it moment to moment. And then if you start to find yourself and take the time to metabolize each experience, give yourself a moment to breathe and let it through. And then, like I said, if you find yourself really in a bad mood, just step away for a moment and give yourself a time to reframe. Go into your heart, feel that gratitude, wait till it becomes more expansive and nonspecific, and then see how that can really shift your mood. It’s really powerful to do.

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So I love this topic and I’ll be sharing more about moodiness with much more detail. There’s a lot of other tools and strategies that we can do in the upcoming weeks and months I’ll be sharing with you. So please keep in touch with me. Let me know other questions you have around all of our four cornerstones, food, body, emotional wellbeing, and spiritual growth. We rotate these shows around the cornerstones to really support you in the most holistic way. We’ll be back Monday.

for our next interview show. It’s gonna be a great one, so be sure to tune in. And what else? Find me on social media at underscore Kimberly Snyder. As I mentioned, please leave us a review. It’s a beautiful way to support the show. I’ll see you soon. And right from my heart to yours, sending you so much love and so much gratitude. Take care.