Straighten Up
You’ve likely heard that certain power stances—standing like Super Woman, for example—instantly boost your self-confidence, making you look mighty when you feel puny. It turns out, you don’t even need to leave your chair to strike that pose: Simply sitting up straight and lifting your chest can make you feel more confident than slouching over, science says.
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🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Make Sleep a Priority
When we sleep, our brains recharge, ensuring we wake up alert and clear-headed. Without enough rest, our energy, attention and memory are reduced and stress hormones go through the roof. Thus, happy people make sleep a priority.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ LOL and Laugh a Lot
Laugh!Â
What makes you laugh? Do it! Sometimes watching a comedy or even a YouTube clip can take you out of you slump. So can recalling a funny experience in your life and re-telling it to the friend or spouse you shared it with. Laughter keeps things light and real.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Start The Day Right
Every day is a clean slate. Once it gets going, though, it can get away from you, and the next thing you know, it’s time for bed, and you didn’t focus on what you planned to. Avoid this by starting every day writing down one thing you’re grateful for. Write down and reflect on what’s good. It’s simple, but it starts off your day on the right foot before you jump back into the daily grind.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Ignite the Dopamine
Jump Start Your Dopamine With Exercise
Dopamine, a chemical that plays a role in happiness, is a neurotransmitter in the brain that’s necessary for feelings of pleasure and happiness.
Many studies suggest that as we age, we’re constantly losing our stores of dopamine, which is why we need to constantly seek out experiences that release dopamine.
The best way to increase your brain’s dopamine production? Exercise. So run, lift, jump, play — and get happy.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ You Really Are Strong
Remember How Far You’ve Come
While most advice you hear says that if you want to be happy you need to forget about the negative things in the past, researchers at the University of California, Davis found the opposite to be true. When you take time to remember the challenges you’ve overcome, it can heighten your feelings of gratitude in the present. The key is to focus on being grateful for the progress you’ve made instead of resenting the ways difficult times have held you back.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ 10 Ways to Lighten Up
10 Ways To Feel Good
- Laugh out loud
- Listen to music
- Stretch
- Be thankful
- Read for fun
- Daydream
- Remember all the good things about yourself
- Create a collage representing “The Real Me”
- Write a poem
- Reward yourself
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ You Are Important
Value Yourself
Treat yourself with kindness and respect, and avoid self-criticism. Make time for your hobbies and favorite projects, or broaden your horizons. Do a daily crossword puzzle, plant a garden, take dance lessons, learn to play an instrument or become fluent in another language.
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Lighten Up
Have fun and don’t take yourself too seriously. Balance in life is important for maintaining emotional health. Too much emphasis on work causes stress as well as wear and tear on the body and mind. Take time off; go to the beach, the park or a movie to take your mind off your current quandaries. Chances are when you come back you will see things from a fresher, more productive perspective.
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it.” Jack Handey
🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ 10 Things That Make Us Feel Good
Choices to Help You Feel Good Today
1. Sleeping in a freshly-made bed
2. Feeling the sun on your face
3. People saying “thank you” or a random act of kindness from a stranger
4. Finding money in unexpected places
5. Having time to myself
6. Laughing so hard it hurts
7. Snuggling on the sofa with a loved one
8. Freshly-made bread
9. Doing something for others
10. The clean feeling after a shower
