77 simple steps to instantly lift your spirits

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Happiness can be given by the most basic things. Lifehacker has put together an impressive list of ideas for dealing with sadness and blues.

Simple joys

1. Watch a funny video on YouTube.

2. Listen to your favorite music.

3. Prepare something delicious.

4. Indulge yourself and order your favorite food at home.

5. Read a book.

6. Dance.

7. Sing your favorite song. But only incendiary.

8. Watch a good movie.

9. Check out the good old sitcom.

10. Play with your pet.

11. Buy a bouquet of flowers and put it in a prominent place to please the eye.

12. Have a delicious tea, coffee, or other beverage.

13. Take a series of selfies with funny facial expressions. Alternatively, take a photo in a photo booth.

14. Come to work in a nice outfit.

15. Buy an inexpensive item that can cheer you up. It is better that its cost does not exceed 50-100 rubles.

The point is to find a gift for symbolic money, and not to make an impulsive purchase.

16. Recite with feeling your favorite poem or passage from a play.

17. Play the fool in anonymous or video chat.

Relax

18. Meditate for 10 minutes. Or just sit up straight, close your eyes, and take 10 slow breaths in and out.

19. Take an essential oil bath.

20. Have a 20 minute yoga or stretching session.

21. Ask someone to give you a massage. Or do it yourself. A massage chair in a mall is also an option.

22. Buy a bottle of good wine and savor it slowly throughout the evening.

23. Pop the bubble wrap, stick your hand in peas (beans, lentils) like Amelie, or get a pleasant tactile sensation in another way.

24. Let off steam and shout.

25. Finally go to bed early and sleep!

Creation

26. Draw a picture. Your artistic ability is absolutely irrelevant here.

27. Come up with a story. It can be a good fairy tale or a chilling thriller. The main thing is that it grabs you.

28. Make something with your own hands.

29. Play a musical instrument if you can. However, if you don't know how, nothing prevents you from extracting rhythmic sounds from surrounding objects.

30. Come up with a comic strip with you as the main character. You can use your own sadness as a starting point. For example, invent the superpower of tears or despondency.

This kind of entertainment will help you to look at the situation in a less serious and tragic way.

31. Color the coloring book.

32. Create a wish board by clipping illustrations from magazines or newspapers that reflect your dreams. Stick them on a piece of cardboard or Whatman paper and hang them in a prominent place.

33. Print your favorite photos and make an album out of them.

Games

34. Play a video or online game.

35. Solve a puzzle or complete a puzzle.

36. Play with an anti-stress toy.

37. On the way from work or in the store, play a spy: imagine that someone is chasing you or you are following someone. Become as natural as possible, but remember: you are a spy. Try not to fail the assignment.

38. Sometimes it's nice to be someone else. Create a new personality for yourself and tell a fictional story from "your" life to a stranger. For example, a bartender or a taxi driver.

39. Play public transportation. For example, try to imagine who your travel companions are. The game is hotter: imagine that these people are the only survivors of the apocalypse, and you need to decide with which of them you will continue the human race.

Actions involving others

40. Write a kind letter to a friend or relative who is struggling right now. Alternatively, call and encourage him.

41. Talk to your most beloved and sympathetic loved one.

42. Prank your friend.

43. Surprise someone.

44. Give someone a sincere compliment.

45. Have sex.

Activities outside the home

46. Take a walk around the area or go to the park.

47. Open a map of your city and blindly select a location. Go there and find something interesting there.

48. Take a ride on unfamiliar public transport routes and gaze out at the city from your window.

49. Feed ducks, squirrels or pigeons - any nonhazardous living creature that you come across within the city limits.

50. Go for a photo walk. You can just shoot the city and people, or come up with an unusual theme. For example, photographing red-haired strangers or beautiful cracks on the asphalt.

51. Open the poster, choose an interesting event that takes place on this day, and visit it. Performance, concert, exhibition - at your discretion.

52. Go to the pool or gym.

53. Visit the place you have wanted to get to for a long time. It can be a flea market, a museum, an unfamiliar area of the city - the choice is yours.

54. Complete the quest.

55. Get to your usual place using an unusual route.

56. Go cycling, skateboarding, or rollerblading.

Useful things

57. Clean up the house.

58. Throw away all the trash that has gathered on the balcony, mezzanines and other places where useless things are accumulated.

59. Rearrange the apartment.

60. Finally, put your computer in order.

61. Remove from your friends on social networks all users who do not interest you or annoy you. It will also not be superfluous to clean your mail and unsubscribe from unnecessary mailings.

62. Start learning a useful skill.

63. Donate money, items, or donate time to charity.

Back to the childhood

64. Play your favorite children's game. To do this, you will most likely have to involve other people. Although, for example, you can play the classics alone.

65. Build a fort with pillows and blankets.

66. Prank a random caller on the phone.

67. Blow bubbles.

68. Buy a helium balloon, inhale the gas, and talk in a stupid voice.

69. Play shadow theater.

70. Take a swing on the playground.

71. Take a ride at the amusement park.

72. Launch a firecracker or fireworks. A simplified version is sparklers.

73. Paint on the pavement with crayons.

Other

74. Practice your calligraphy and write down all the letters of the alphabet beautifully.

75. Imagine that you are giving an interview to your favorite publication. Answer questions honestly and thoroughly. Although … Answer the way you want.

76. Write down three of your accomplishments. More is possible.

77. Write down three things for which you are grateful to the world.