How to Feel Better Instantly when you are Feeling Down?

Life is a little complicated, full of ups and down, but, that doesn't mean you should always give up whenever you're feeling low. Everyone has problems in their life, and if you know this, you won't ever need anything to cheer yourself up. However, if even that doesn't help, below are some things that can do the needful whenever you're feeling low, making you feel good about yourself.

10 Things To Do To Feel Good About Yourself

#1. Tune In To Your Favorite Songs

Listening to songs is a great way to lift your mood whenever you feel downcast. Songs are an instant mood elevating remedy that is very common among people who feel down emotionally. Music acts as a mood elevator and is often related to psychology, and studies suggest that music can boost happiness and reduce anxiety instantly.

The loud sounds and beats cause the serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine, neurotransmitters enzymes that control the brain's reward and pleasure centers, resulting in a change of mood. So, tune in to your old playlist and plug in your ear plugs, enjoy the music and forget everything.

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#2. Dance Like Nobody's Watching

Some people feel better when they dance, they are able to relieve all the stress and get back to their happy mood by dancing. But, people are often shy about dancing, especially when there are people around. So, find out a good place, play the loud dance songs and dance as if no one's watching. Let your body groove on the beats and let go of all the anxiety.

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#3. Pick Up A Good Book

Some people love to read, and often use the fantasy world as an escape from reality. Having a good book can actually help you to get back in the good mood and make you feel better about yourself by shifting your mind from the reality to the literary world. And, by the time you get back to the real world, you start to feel better and positive.

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#4. Go For A Run

Running increases the production of adrenaline or, running boosts adrenaline rush in your body, thus elevating your mood instantly. Adrenaline is a common element of most antidepressant medicines, and thus, it is highly recommended to get on your running shoes and go out for a run.

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#5. Write About It.

Writing is very common amongst those who are shy kind of people, who cannot express their feelings with others. The idea is to share what you feel with someone or something, be it a human or a diary. Talking about your feelings often helps, and there are people who write poems as a way to express themselves in a better way, especially when feeling low. 

If you can’t or don’t want to write, you can always take the second alternative to writing. Take a paper and pen and start scribbling, or try to doodle or draw something. This shifts your immediate attention from your feelings and engages your mind into the scribbling or drawing activity.

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#6. Get In Touch With Nature

Mother nature is the best solution to every problem. If you have natural habitats like seaside, forest, or even an abandoned road near you; get there and try to listen to the sounds of nature like the chirping of birds, the sound of wind slipping right through your ears, and flapping wings of beetles. The natural sounds like mentioned above are termed as brain waves; beta, alpha and theta waves which are often helpful in attaining peace and a state of complete relaxation.

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#7. Unleash The Chef Inside You

Cooking is often termed as a burden, and somewhere it's true due to monotonous nature of the work. You will get bored when you have to cook 3 times a day and 7 days a week. However, sometimes, cooking can be a good way to elevate your mood. The excitement of cooking something new which you have never cooked before makes people completely forget about everything else. So, take out a cookbook, put on your cooking apron, and cook a sizzling spicy dish for yourself. 

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#8. Watch Some Comedy Videos

Laughing is an instant stress buster and often helps people making them laugh, eventually making them happy. Every doctor knows the importance of laughing, and share this "stay happy, and keep laughing" advice with their patients no matter how small their problem is. So, next time when you feel low, tune into some comedy videos or read some funny jokes.

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#9. Talk To Someone, Even If They Are Strangers

Talking about the things that are making you feel low can relieve you from the negative feelings inside you. Talk to your friend you trust the most, or your parents, even talking to a complete stranger helps. Strangers might sound weird, but some people are insecure about their feelings, and they don't want to break out their feelings to friends due to insecurities. Thus, in such cases, talking to some stranger on social messaging platforms can help. Also, if you're willing to try it, there are some apps that allow the user to talk to others and stay anonymous at the same time.

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#10. Cry Unless You Feel Good

Shedding out tears can be a good way to get back in the good mood and feel better about yourself. Sometimes, it is better not to hold back and let it all out, thus, cry as much as you can, as loud as you can and let go of all the pain that's inside you. And, don’t worry about what people say, crying is not bad, not always. Sometimes it's better to cry rather than holding back and hurting yourself.

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How To Make Someone Feel Better

If you're feeling low about yourself, it's easier for you to get back in the good mood, but, the tough job is to make someone else feel better. This tough job can be done in three steps: understanding the cause, finding out a way to divert their attention, and the last step is to give them a hug.

Step One

Understanding the cause behind the sad faces helps you to analyze the sensitivity of the situation and find out the right solution to solve their problem. Also, in a bid and quest to find the cause, you can engage them in a conversation and deviate their mind by continuously switching the topics and talking about different things.

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Step Two

Now, the task is to divert their attention from the problem and engage them in something else unless they start laughing and forget about it completely.

#1. Call out by their nick names if they have any, or create a name for them and call them out repeatedly using that name, people feel good when they hear their nick names. It makes them laugh, and they feel their importance, resulting in making them feel better.

#2. Ask the person to teach you something, maybe a language, an art, or maybe a skill. People like teaching things and the excitement makes them completely forget everything else.

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#3. Start complimenting them about everything even if it isn't true. Everyone likes a compliment, and their instant reaction to any compliment is a smile. You can even tell them that they have a pointy nose and they start confirming it. 

#4. Show concern and care towards their problem. When people get a feeling that somebody cares for them, they start feeling better.

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#5. Take them out for a movie, even a lunch or dinner will work, or make them do something that interests them.

Step 3

This might be one way to make others happy in case nothing else works out. Give the person a tight hug, and they will instantly feel better. There’s no one who doesn't feel better after a hug.

We hope this instantly make you feel good about yourself, and make other "feel good" techniques help you whenever you feel low. Just remember, it’s a bad day, not a bad life. Things eventually get better with time, all you need to do is wait.

Hope you liked the article. Let us know your “feel good remedy” using the comment section.

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