Choose To Be Happy!

You have the power to change your life. So, we show you how to turn that negative state of mind into a positive one.

- Julie Beun

Never mind me, I’m in a bit of a mood.” Every now and then, those words slip out, and your sad or angry mood takes control of your day. Yet, according to the experts, you can consciously choose your mood, rather than letting it choose you.

It all starts with consciously addressing your mindset, says Kathie Donovan, author of Inspiration In Action: A Woman’s Guide To Happiness. “Yes, you can choose your mood, but you have to master your thinking or conscious mind,” she says. “We have between 35,000 and 95,000 thoughts a day and 80 per cent of them are negative. We let our thinking mind be our master, and we allow that negativity to creep in. There’s a way to snap out of it if you want to.”

Here’s how to seize those negative feelings, and turn them into something better.

WHAT TO DO WITH ANGER

Feeling hostile and angry with the world? Distressing as that may feel, you can use anger as a powerful catalyst for change, says Dr Nick Baylis, a Cambridge University lecturer. “The anger should be used to do something energetic, like going for a lunchtime jog or writing a job application. It physically makes us sick if we hold it in. People talk themselves out of it, and it causes upset and frustration. Frustration is anger when it’s got nowhere to go.”