Quotes About Mood

To boost serotonin levels for the Persistent Brain Type—or at least level them out—I recommend the following. 1. Increase the intake of tryptophan. This amino acid found in foods such as turkey, chicken, fish, carrots, blueberries, pumpkin seeds, sweet potatoes, and garbanzo beans helps drive tryptophan into the brain, where serotonin is made.

Stay away from sweets: Sugar quickly raises serotonin but doesn't maintain the boost

Try out a bright light therapy lamp in the morning. This increases serotonin levels and improves mood.

Food is a powerful drug. You can use it to help mood and cognitive ability or you can unknowingly make things worse.

overconsumption of protein can lead to increased stress and inflammation in the body, which is associated with low moods and anxiousness.

Estrogen helps you think clearly. Progesterone helps you relax.

The brain stem and cerebellum play a critical role in happiness, as they are also involved in processing speed and producing some of the chemicals, such as dopamine and serotonin, that are involved in mood, motivation, and learning

interest, sleeps a lot, low energy, self-medicates to improve mood BRAIN FINDINGS/NEURO-TRANSMITTER ISSUE High limbic activity, low PFC/check vitamin D and DHEA levels SUPPLEMENTS SAMe, vitamin D, or DHEA if needed MEDICATIONS Wellbutrin TYPE 5. Anxious Addicts SYMPTOMS Anxious, tense, nervous, predicts the worst, self-medicates to calm BRAIN FINDINGS/NEURO-TRANSMITTER ISSUE High basal ganglia/low GABA

levels SUPPLEMENTS GABA, B6, magnesium MEDICATIONS Anticonvulsants, such as Topamax, Neurontin TYPE 6. Temporal Lobe Addicts SYMPTOMS Temper problems, mood instability, memory problems, learning disabilities BRAIN FINDINGS/NEURO-TRANSMITTER ISSUE Abnormal TL SUPPLEMENTS GABA, B6, magnesium for calming, or

emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood

tweeters felt active, engaged, and hopeful—generally rose in the morning, plummeted in the afternoon

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

You either have the feeling or you don't.

Sleep is among the most critical factors for peak performance, memory, productivity, immune function, and mood regulation. Even a mild sleep reduction or a departure from a set sleep routine (for example, going to bed late one night, sleeping in the next morning) can produce detrimental effects on cognitive performance for many days afterward.

Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.

In a negotiation situation, for instance, good mood helps. People in a good mood are more cooperative and elicit reciprocation. They tend to end up with better results than do unhappy negotiators.

There is at least one source of occasion noise that we have all noticed: mood.

But feelings are actually more like weather systems—they blow in and they blow out. Just because you feel sad this minute or this hour or this day doesn't mean you'll feel that way in ten minutes or this afternoon or next week. Everything you feel—anxiety, elation, anguish—blows in and out again.

Everything you feel—anxiety, elation, anguish—blows in and out again.

It seems melancholy weather." "I prefer to think of it more as weather designed for reflection." "You are the eternal optimist.

The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.