A blues is understood as a oppressive gloomy mood, accompanied by inexplicable melancholy and agonizing boredom. This condition can last only one day or it can stretch out for a long time. How can you stop moping, feel the taste of life again and feel a surge of energy?
In most cases, blues are associated with a lack of new bright emotions. An unpleasant state arises when a person is forced to perform the same actions from day to day, to engage in the same routine or unpleasant activities. Often there is a blues in the off-season and in winter, when everything around is dull, gray, when the lack of sunlight is acutely felt.
The main way to deal with a temporary or prolonged blues is to bring new impressions into life. Meeting friends and having fun conversations, walking in previously unknown places, watching exciting films or reading exciting books - all these can help to overcome an unpleasant state and cheer up.
Music has a positive effect on the emotional background and helps to stop moping. Listening to classical compositions in the background or any cheerful, energizing tracks has a beneficial effect on the state. Scientists note that music therapy using classical pieces of music stimulates the growth of neurons and the creation of new neural connections, which is necessary to overcome depression and boredom.
Any physical activity, such as fitness, yoga or dancing, has a positive effect on well-being and mood. The blues are characterized by a feeling of lack of strength and a desire to lie around, not go anywhere and do nothing. But here it is important to pull yourself together and take, as they say, the first step towards getting rid of melancholy and apathetic mood. Even an hour's vigorous walk in the fresh air will make you feel so much better. In addition, physical activity helps relieve stress, has a beneficial effect on the immune system and human health in general. While practicing yoga or dancing, you can feel a surge of new strength and inspiration, which is often not enough when a person is moping.
In an effort to solve the question of how to cope with the blues, you need to add not only new emotions to life, but also bright colors. It is worth updating, if possible, your wardrobe, getting rid of dark things or those elements of clothing that cause unpleasant associations. It will not be superfluous to change the situation around you. A few bright elements on your desk or in your bedroom will have subtle but beneficial psychological effects.
The blues are often associated with a lack of serotonin - the so-called hormone of joy - in the body. Therefore, the mood is deteriorating. Lack of sleep, unhealthy diet, medication, especially analgesics and antispasmodics, negatively affect the production of serotonin. During the fight against the blues, it is recommended to reconsider your habits and diet, try to add more pleasant moments to life, and also stop acting according to a previously created pattern. Getting out of your comfort zone can be extremely difficult, but often just such a shake-up is necessary for the body to defeat the blues.
In order not to intensify the blues, for a while, you need to minimize communication with people who are used to constantly complaining about everything, pouring out negative on everyone in a row who concentrate only on problems and difficulties. You should also try to create a light and pleasant atmosphere around yourself, an atmosphere of joy and fun. You should not aggravate your condition by listening to sad music, watching dramatic films or TV shows, and so on. It is very important for the brain to switch from dullness and despondency, to something joyful and light. Wanting to stop being depressed, you should devote more time to your favorite hobby, engage in creativity, which “includes” the right hemisphere of the brain, and also praise yourself for even the smallest achievements and do not forget to encourage and delight yourself.
