五种简单的方法帮你摆脱低落的情绪

每个人都会不时陷入低落的情绪之中。我谈到的这种心情会给你带来麻烦，使你为任何小事情恼火，也可能破坏你非常美好的一天。

有时，这种心情会在你意想不到的时候突然出现，从而妨碍你做真正想做的事。以下是如何迅速摆脱这种心情的方法，帮助你重新回到正常的生活中来。

１．离开房间

改变一下环境。立刻就做。各种情况都会触发低落的情绪，它会常常纠缠着你，在你身上留下印记，如果你呆在同一个环境中，它会不断地搔扰你，留在你的脑中挥之不去。到一个新的环境中去，让自己接触不同的事情，不同的人，体会不同的感觉，就能轻易地把低落的情绪抛到脑后。

２．做件快乐的事情

当你心情不好时，很容易找到借口助长或加强低落的情绪。为什么呢？因为你想证实自己心情不好是有理由的，因此想找办法证明它，做出合理的解释。

无论感觉多么奇怪，做点相反的事，打破这种习惯。看场有趣的电影，演奏一曲最喜欢的歌曲，去当地公园散散步，或者在那家大咖啡馆喝杯咖啡，吃块馅饼。做点令你感觉良好的事情，脸上露出微笑，你的坏心情就会成为历史。

３．发发牢骚，诉诉苦，嘀咕嘀咕（ＢＭＷ）

在为某些人上辅导课时，能很清楚地看出他们是否心情不好。出现那种情况时，我就会说，“好了，给你们四分钟时间发发牢骚，诉诉苦，嘀咕嘀咕所有的烦恼。四分钟一到，就不准再发牢骚了，好吗？”于是，他们会尽情地发泄四分钟。

只需花几分钟时间做一下ＢＭＷ（我是这么为它命名的），把一切烦恼发泄出来，一切烦恼都会烟消云散。重要的不是犹豫或思考——ＢＭＷ时间就是要把一切烦恼都倒出来。往往在四分钟之前你会感到没精打采，而四分钟之后会开怀大笑。不管用哪种方法，你做到了，就会感觉轻松。

４．埋头锻炼

体育锻炼能直接影响我们的情绪，无数的研究证明，锻炼能释放内啡吠和血清素（令身体感到愉快的化学物质），能积极地影响你的心情。埋头体育锻炼不仅能释放出那些令人感觉良好的化学物质，而且能很好地转移注意力，把注意力转移出低落的情绪，让你能做点什么来分散身体和大脑的注意。

５．让自己摆脱困境

无法更改的事实——心情不好。有时，心情不好就顺其自然也很好。如果有些事情总是令你伤神费力，你总是感到心情不好，那就说明你生活中的某件事情肯定做的不对。顺其自然的坏心情能引领你发现正常情况下你不可能感觉到的阴暗面。

你不必沉溺其中，但是任其发展能出人意外地令你解脱。心情好不好都是正常的心理状态，而当你从另一个角度看待它时，就可能真正了解到那是怎么回事。

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5 Easy Ways to Shake Off a Bad Mood

Everyone gets into a big ol’ bad mood sometimes. I’m talking about the kind of mood that throws a spanner in the works, has you fuming at every little thing and threatens to ruin a perfectly good day.

Sometimes these moods happen just when you don’t want them to and they can get in the way of doing what you want to do in the way that you want to do it. Here’s how to shake them off quickly so that you can get back your life.

1. Leave the room

Get a change of scene. Right now. Bad moods can be triggered by all kinds of things and often it’s something around you that ticked you off, and if you stay in the same environment it’ll continue to nag at you and play on your mind. Go to a new environment, surround yourself with different things, different people and different sensations and it’s easier for you to leave your bad mood behind you.

2. Give yourself a treat

When you’re in a bad mood it’s easy to look for things to fuel that bad mood or reinforce it. Why? Because you want to feel like your bad mood is valid, so you look for things to validate it and make it right.

Break that habit by doing the opposite, no matter how strange it might feel. Watch a funny movie, play your favourite song, go for a walk in your local park, grab a coffee and a slice of pie in that great coffee shop. Do something that feels good and puts a smile on your face, and your bad mood will be history.

3. Have a BMW

When I’m in a coaching session with someone it’s pretty obvious if they’re in a bad mood. When that happens I say to them, “Right. You have 4 minutes to Bitch, Moan and Whine all you want. When the 4 minutes is up there’s no more moaning, deal?”. Then they let rip for 4 minutes.

Taking just a couple of minutes for a BMW (as I like to call it) can get everything right out there, everything that’s bubbling away. The key is not to pause or think – a BMW session is just getting it all out there. Often you’ll find that you run out of steam before the 4 minutes is up and sometimes you’ll just end up laughing. Either way, when you’re done you’ll feel lighter.

4. Hit the gym

Physical exercise has a direct influence on our mood, and countless studies have shown that exercise releases endorphins and serotonin (the body’s pleasure chemicals) that positively affect your mood. Hitting the gym not only releases those feel-good chemicals, but it’s a great distraction, diverting your attention away from your bad mood and giving you something to do that occupies your body and mind.

5. Let yourself off the hook

Fact of Life # 37 – Bad moods happen. Sometimes, it’s just fine to let the bad mood ride. If things are niggling you and bad moods are a familiar deal to you, then it’s a good bet that something’s not quite right somewhere in your life. Letting the bad mood ride allows you to go to those dark places where you wouldn’t normally go and see what’s there.

You don’t have to wallow in it, but letting it happen can be surprisingly liberating. Your bad moods are just as valid as your good moods and when you come out the other side you might just have learned something about what’s really going on.

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2008.11.21，文章初稿