- Or do your moods control you? I don't consider myself to be a moody person, but every now and then I go dark. I mean real dark. But I don't let it consume me. Instead I use it to fuel my creativity. That may sound a bit cliche, but I do find the darkness helps me surface the truth in an open and honest dialogue with myself. Lauren Martin, author of The Book of Moods, believes in moods too. "If you look at your mood as something to analyse, rather than something to be scared of or freaked out about, and instead start documenting it, it really changes how you see yourself and how you appreciate your emotions." Next time you're "in a mood" don't let your first reaction be to "snap out of it." Instead, break out your journal and analyse the mood and attempt to understand it. What are the triggers? And what can you do to mitigate the triggers and get to the underlying emotions? From there, work out a useful strategy to deal with the root cause.#
- Or do your moods control you? I don't consider myself to be a moody person, but every now and then I go dark. I mean real dark. But I don't let it consume me. Instead I use it to fuel my creativity. That may sound a bit cliche, but I do find the darkness helps me surface the truth in an open and honest dialogue with myself. Lauren Martin, author of The Book of Moods, believes in moods too. "If you look at your mood as something to analyse, rather than something to be scared of or freaked out about, and instead start documenting it, it really changes how you see yourself and how you appreciate your emotions." Next time you're "in a mood" don't let your first reaction be to "snap out of it." Instead, break out your journal and analyse the mood and attempt to understand it. What are the triggers? And what can you do to mitigate the triggers and get to the underlying emotions? From there, work out a useful strategy to deal with the root cause.#