What sort of mood am I in today?

STOP

Try saying

What sort of mood am I observing today?

This is more than mere semantics. It is also somatic!

Body and mind are entwined to such an extent that they may be thought of as one.

A placebo can really make you better. A nocebo can really make you ill.

If we can develop the mindful habit of observing, rather than reacting and jumping in, creating a narrative of unbalanced negativity, the benefits will be felt not just in our thinking and problem solving, but also physically, in our bodies. Mind health and body health are intimately together, hand in hand, step by step, in the same dance of life.

It is better and safer to observe quicksand rather than wade into it!

Our thoughts are often dramatic, self indulgent, negatively creative and unhelpful. This is okay if we can accept that this is what thoughts are like. We don't have to become enslaved by them, bullied by them, carried away by them. We certainly don't have believe everything they tell us and go everywhere they want to take us.

Be the observer of passing thoughts and moods. Decide how you are going to work with them and how you want to be. The mood doesn't choose you. You choose the mood.

When you look after your thoughts and moods, you also look after your body.