Increasing Your Activity Level To Improve Your Mood
Try Some of These Activites
1. Call or visit with a friend.
2. Take a walk in the woods.
3. Visit a museum, attend a play or listen to music.
4. Exercise but take it easy.
5. Go to a club meeting or a church service.
6. Find some way to pamper yourself.
7. Take some time to play with children or animals.
8. Write poetry or a story which expresses your feelings.
9. Go out for coffee, coke or ice cream.
10. Play a new game or try a new sport.
11. Seek volunteer oppourtunities.
12. Cook a good meal for yourself or someone else.
Increasing your activity level can improve your outlook and increase your energy level. By doing more, you are likely to become more involved with others and to focus less on yourself. This may help to distract you, temporarily, from your mood and allow pleasure to enter your life. Successful experiences are likely to increase one’s motivation for more.
Examine your recent past and compile a list of activities which you have found enjoyable. Think of the small pleasures as well as those things which were very pleasurable. Some examples could be listening to music, taking a walk, shopping, playing a sport, going to a movie, or hundreds of other options. It is up to you to decide what you enjoy. Include activities which involve interacting with others who can give you positive feedback and activities which provide a sense of accomplishment.
