This week’s Mental Sunshine is really simple; something you can probably do right now.
It’s really easy, but something that can help your body to release feel-good chemicals like serotonin and dopamine.
These can help to lift your mood, boost your energy and reconnect with feelings of happiness and comfort.
So what is it?
Put on your favourite song – and play it really loudly!!!
Music can really change how we feel
It can help us to switch off and lift our spirits.
You get double Mental Sunshine points if you sing along loudly too!
The louder the better!
Of course, if your favourite song is a Leonard Cohen classic, you might want to choose something a little more upbeat.
Apparently music from when we were between 10 and 19 is more comforting to us
Music from this era seems to leave more of a mark on us
Possibly because this is the time when we’re forming our identity.
Either way, listening to an absolute banger from your teenage years, singing along, perhaps momentarily pretending you’re back in your teenage bedroom or at a party with friends…
That all sounds like a brilliant way to bring some more Mental Sunshine into your day!
Let me know which song you choose!
I’m choosing dignity by Deacon Blure