You Are Not Your Moods - Mindful

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Unhook From Your Mood

Simply having better thoughts and thinking about something else is not going to help in changing our mood, even if it seems so in the short run.
Mindfulness meditation untangles our self from the mood or emotion and creates space in between. This helps us remove the identification we have with the emotion.
The space that mindfulness provides can be very valuable if we want to choose to respond to our emotions and not react like before.
If you can’t meditate, good sleep can reset your mind and provide clarity of thought, making you respond to the triggers in a better way.

Moods Vs Emotions

Emotions (like rage) are a jolt of energy with a short duration and are also called ‘action potentials’. This is because they provide information that energizes you towards a particular action.

Moods are states of mind shaped by our current problems, stress, thought and rumination. Moods that go on longer than a day or two can cause anxiety or depression.

The Triggers Of Our Environment

Our environment provides us with triggers like food, caffeine, job stress, a swear word from a driver, rain or music, that can cause us to form a certain mood, or feel a certain emotion inside us.

These triggers are often subtle and can be routinized by our mind. The worst part is that we don’t consider ourselves as a witness to a mood or emotion, but become the mood or emotion itself. This false sense of self leaves no space between the emotion and our own identity.