The Moodraiser

You will feel strong and happy to the degree you feel your actions have some meaning. About something that makes you unhappy, ask yourself, "Can my suffering serve some meaningful purpose?" Ponder that question today.

And especially if you have experienced a few setbacks along the way.

There is a difference between “trying to think positive” or “putting a positive spin” on something and actually reframing it. You can tell if you have a genuine reframe if your feelings change.

Oxytocin makes you feel calm and relaxed, trusting, generous, and affectionate. It reduces pain and improves sociability. All these results from oxytocin add up to one of the best moods you can have: The experience of feeling loved and loving. How can you get more of it? Read this: http://bit.ly/2u...

Being kind and generous and altruistic is natural and pleasurable, and the efforts at persuading us to be good to others only make something enjoyable into a chore.

WHEN I WANT TO improve my mood, I always look first for something in my complete control. Purposeful action is the best one. I can decide on a purpose and I can take actions toward that purpose. It doesn't depend on circumstances or the moods of others. Doing something purposeful is a self-reliant w...

Shelly Gable, an assistant professor of psychology at UCLA who studies what makes marriages great, has found a useful little nugget. When a husband or wife tells some good news to their spouse, the spouse's reaction can raise the husband's or wife's mood, or lower it.

If you "reframe" a circumstance that makes you feel bad, you won't feel bad any more. Nothing has changed except how you're looking at it, but that's enough to change your feelings. Reframing means interpreting the situation differently. When something happens, you interpret it a certain way, and yo...