I'm walking through puddles: how to find a good mood in the rain

Recipes for a good mood in bad weather July 24, 2021, 00:00 | Katya Kozhevnikova

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Our weather is very unpredictable. For example, as soon as I conceived this article, it suddenly got better. And even the snow stopped falling (at the end of July). And yet, let this article hang here - in our latitudes it is difficult to expect that summer will linger for a long time. Although I really want to believe in it.

Bad weather is not a problem. The trouble is that it often causes a bad mood. I think many people have noticed: on a sunny day you feel a surge of energy, and even troubles don’t upset you as much as usual. But if it rains for two weeks in a row, you don’t want to do anything. Even getting out of bed.

The reason for this is the lack of sunlight. Without it, the body is reluctant to produce serotonin and other “happy hormones.” In addition, being outside in damp and chilly weather, we feel physical discomfort, which cannot but affect our mood. And one more thing: for some people, a decrease in atmospheric pressure causes a feeling of anxiety. This is also quite understandable and explainable: such a phenomenon often becomes a harbinger of a hurricane. And since ancient times, the violence of the elements has been dangerous for humans; it is not surprising that we have learned to sense its approach.

In general, there are quite natural reasons for the connection between mood and weather. But this is little consolation for those who suffer from seasonal depression. Or off-season - if summer never comes. Let's see how to outsmart the body and enjoy life and a great mood even in bad weather.

Light

There is not enough sunlight - we replace it with electric light. The darker it is outside the window, the brighter the room should be. Don't sit in semi-darkness and don't skimp on electricity.

Doctors prescribe light therapy for people suffering from seasonal and non-seasonal depression. But it’s better not to bring yourself to this state by surrounding yourself with light sources in advance.

Color

Another way to compensate for the longing for the sun is color therapy. If there is not enough sun outside, surround yourself with bright things. Buy an orange umbrella or orange pillows for the sofa. Other antidepressant colors are yellow, light green and white.

Laughter

When we have fun, we laugh. When we laugh, we feel happy. So laughter can save you from sadness in any weather. Read funny books more often, watch comedies or KVN episodes, communicate with funny people. And then no weather can spoil your mood.

There is even such a direction of yoga - hasya yoga or “yoga of laughter”. During classes, people do not perform various asanas, but simply... laugh for no apparent reason. From the outside it looks strange, but the participants claim that it is addictive.

Smell

Many aromas have a positive effect on our psyche. For example, the smells of grapefruit, geranium and lavender reduce anxiety and lift your mood. Essential oils can be sprinkled around the room, added to the bath, or diluted with water in an aroma lamp.

And perfumes with sunny citrus aromas will definitely lift your spirits.

However, some people even like bad weather. Cholerics are fascinated by the violence of the elements, melancholics find a reflection of their character in rainy weather, and phlegmatic people find a reason not to leave the house.

How does the weather affect your mood?

Katya Kozhevnikova , iledebeaute.ru

Photo: Photobank Lori

Wishes for a good day in prose

I wish you a wonderful, magical, incredibly positive day.
Let your energy boil, let all circumstances turn out well for you, let every little thing bring great luck! I wish you joyful emotions and brilliant success! My beloved little man, my joy, I wish you good morning, a wonderful mood and bright inspiration. May your day be successful and easy, happy and joyful. I kiss you and hug you tightly.

I sincerely wish you a pleasant, successful and good day. Let it be fruitful and rich. May all your plans and desires be realized. May this day bring only joy, luck and good emotions.

My dear and bright man, I wish you a clear, wonderful, productive day. Let everything work out as comfortably and successfully as possible. Let every fragment of this incredibly beautiful day form a beautiful, magical picture. Let the day give you a sea of ​​pleasant emotions and sensations!

I wish this wonderful day to be full of fortunate circumstances, bright successes and pleasant surprises! I wish you to be positive and see only the positive in everything! Everything will be as you dream, remember this!

My joy, I wish you the most wonderful and good day. May everything work out for you! May all your goals be successfully achieved, may you have high enthusiasm and a wonderful mood, self-confidence and good luck all day long. Love you.

I wish you a good day, that it brings new victories and joys, that all decisions are correct and bring pleasure. May your day be easy and productive!

I wish you a happy start to the day, may everything be successful and harmonious today.

I would like to wish you a good, successful, kind, bright, cheerful, interesting, amazing and happy day. May you be able to reach your goal together, may everything be within your reach today, may your love help you move mountains and create an eternal paradise for two.

I wish you great luck for today and an overall good day. I wish you to boldly solve problems, confidently move towards your goals, work actively and relax from time to time. And may success accompany you in everything. Remember, this is your day. Make him happy!

Short statuses about rain

Ultimately, rain is just rain.

The past cannot be changed and the rain will erase traces.

We will survive our rains...

Rain happens in every life.

Rain is air with a layer of water.

When it rains, you somehow feel more at home.

Is it possible to refuse a walk because of some rain?

I can't stop the rain, but I can stop the tears.

When it rains, it seems that something is about to be remembered.

Rain is a very useful thing. After the rain, your soul feels good and calm, like after a good sleep.

If you follow the rains, it is quite possible to assume that they are somewhat similar to people. For each person, you can choose the type of rain that suits his character. For example, pleasant summer rain suits kind, smiling people. Sudden rain, which begins without making itself known by either wind, rain clouds, or thunder, is similar to hot-tempered, but easy-going individuals. A downpour with thunder and lightning suits aggressive people - as if he wants to splash his anger on everyone around him. There are many different types of rain. As Forrest Gump said, there is straight rain, slanting rain, horizontal rain, and even rain that comes from bottom to top. The rainwater that pours from a cloud, like the quotes about it, is unique and inimitable. She can become your best friend, or she can become an arrogant and ruthless enemy.

Wishes for a good day in prose

Whatever the weather outside the window, and whatever is hidden in your soul, let this day bring only pleasant changes. Let him please you with unexpected interesting meetings, open up new perspectives, and resolve old problems. Believe that the morning will be beautiful and cheerful, the day will be eventful and positive, and the evening will be warm and cozy. Have a nice day!

I wish this day to be just great! May it be filled with pleasant moments, moments of joy and love. You have more vigor and inspiration, energy and an inexhaustible charge of strength. Spend the day fruitfully so that you can complete all your planned tasks. Good day to you!

May the coming day be bright, full of pleasant emotions and bright ideas. And let it remain in your memory as a small miracle that you will want to return to in moments of anxiety and doubt. Have a nice day and sunny mood!

Good day to you! Let it be fruitful and profitable, and if you feel tired, let it be pleasant. Seize every wonderful moment, even the smallest one, and try not to pay attention to any problems. Be at your best, think about the good and bright - and you will certainly succeed! Remember: everything is in your hands!

Author: Yana Sergeeva

A new day is coming. Let it be filled with pleasant meetings with good people, kind and important events. I wish that today all problems are solved easily and by themselves. Have a nice day and good mood!

I wish you a fantastic, unique, eventful and radiant day! Let it delight you with bright surprises and pleasant surprises! I wish you to easily carry out your plans and have time to enjoy joyful moments! Let positive thinking help you overcome all obstacles on the path to a carefree and happy life!

I wish you a good and productive day! Let the sun shine brightly, give warmth and joy! Let the birds sing in your soul and improve your mood! Live, bloom, give love to the world and may everything be wonderful for you!

May the new day bring a storm of positive emotions, a hurricane of passions and the sweetness of joyful events! Let your morning coffee invigorate you and give you awakening, and let your day pass at its best, giving you new acquaintances, new ideas and the strongest patience! Do things with a smile and the world will respond with unearthly charge and energy. Let your loved ones please you with their optimism, and let your colleagues treat you condescendingly.

Have a nice day! Let it begin with the freshness of a cheerful morning! Wherever you go, may good luck await you! Kind smiles and beauty delight your eyes everywhere! Let the little whims of fate be replaced by great luck! May your energy increase on this day, your health become stronger, and everything will come to you without much effort!

Stop for a second and look around! Look - there is a high sky above you, there is definitely a Sun and Stars on it! This means that this day is a good one! This day will be even better if you now exhale all your worries for a minute, breathe deeply, remember how wonderful you are, remember the most pleasant thing you have in life, and smile! Have a good day!

I wish that today turns into a sweet bun, the filling of which is the sparkle of your happy eyes and sincere joy.

Statuses and quotes about rain with meaning

The meaning of life is not to wait for the storm to end, but to learn to dance in the rain.

After rain there always comes a rainbow, after tears - happiness.

Sympathy in times of adversity is like rain in times of drought.

In life, like in the rain, there comes a moment when it just doesn’t matter anymore...

Don't be angry at the rain, because it connects heaven and earth.

Do you want to hide from the rain? Rise above the clouds!

All the rain that has ever fallen or will fall cannot extinguish the hellish flame that another person carries within himself.

Wet rain is not afraid.

The rain that falls here dries under the sun, rises to the clouds, and then the clouds float away, and perhaps the same rain that fell here will pour over you tomorrow.

The rain cannot last forever.

Rain evokes a variety of emotions in each of us. Some people love precipitation, recognizing their life-giving power for nature, while others, on the contrary, believe that this weather can only bring a bad mood. People are different, and among them there are both those who like to watch the rain, sitting in a comfortable chair and wrapped in a warm blanket, and those who, at the mere sight of raindrops, immediately become depressed. In general, this is an individual matter, and what emotions you associate rain with is up to you to decide. Great people also had their own views on this natural phenomenon. That's why the quotes about rain in our selection are very different - funny, sad, philosophical, and ones that are perfect for statuses.

Beautiful wishes for a good day in your own words

A new day has arrived and it brings something unexpected. So let this unexpected be pleasant. He carries worries within himself, so let them be successfully resolved. It carries communication, so let it be only positive. Have a nice day!

Let the morning wake you up with the pink rays of dawn, and let the day embrace you, warm from the sun’s rays! Let every minute sound like magical music! Let everything work out, succeed and work out! Let the outline of time be embroidered with multi-colored threads of events and meetings! Let everything planned and planned be fulfilled! Have a nice day!

Start your day with a smile and everything around you will change! The neighbors will smile back, passers-by will think that you are having a holiday - and they will also give you a smile, your friends will rejoice with you in a good mood! Give a smile to those around you and your day will be kind and full of happy moments!

Beautiful quotes about rain

Everything smells different when it rains.

It rained and the world spread into reflections in puddles.

Rain cleanses the whole world of dirt and debris.

There's no need to say anything. The rain will say better.

As a child, the sky was much closer. That's why I love rain - it brings with it the smell.

I love rain, but I don’t like umbrellas, they hide the sky.

I love the rain... I like what it says.

A walk in the rain is the best place to think about human vices.

When it rains, everything smells like heaven.

There are some things that no amount of rain can wash away.

Heavenly water has long occupied a special place in people's lives. The moisture that came to the earth in drops of rain was considered holy by ancient people. Now, of course, the attitude towards showers and other rain has changed. You can find out what exactly has changed in perception by reading short and beautiful quotes about rain.

Bad mood in cloudy weather: lack of sun, depression or reaction of a healthy body

Why do we mope when it’s gloomy and cold outside?

Photo: Evgenia GUSEVA

It's cloudy, damp, and chilly outside. How can you imagine that we have to live with this weather until the end of March-April, we just give up. Are you familiar? The reasons for the seasonal blues couldn’t be clearer, experts on the Internet assure. The sun directly affects the production of the “joy hormone” serotonin. The less sunlight there is, the less “fuel” we have in our brains for a good mood. Therefore, since the end of autumn and winter, sales of antidepressants have been increasing in Russian pharmacies, representatives of pharmaceutical retail chains report. People are also increasingly relying on natural “mood improvers”: coffee, chocolate, alcohol.

How justified is all this, how does seasonal worsening weather actually affect our body, and how can we help ourselves if we’re feeling blue? We talked about this with an experienced psychiatrist, host of the YouTube channel “Video blog about the psychiatry of Dr. Gilev” Artem Gilev.

THE MORE SEROTONIN, THE BETTER YOUR MOOD - THIS IS A MYTH

- In fact, a person can have elevated levels of serotonin, and at the same time - complete apathy, persistent melancholy and other signs of depression. The fact is that there is no 100% correlation between our emotions and a certain level of certain neurotransmitters in the brain, the doctor immediately refutes the common misconception. — By the way, the main part of the same serotonin is produced in the intestines, and not in the head. And if you, for example, take a blood test for serotonin levels, you will see its indicators in the intestines.

— Is there a scientific explanation why we still feel sad and sad in cloudy weather?

— Several options are possible. First : you are an absolutely healthy person from a psychiatric point of view. And it’s quite natural that bad weather, like any unfavorable factor, worsens your mood. This reaction is characteristic of all living beings. At the same time, a sad mood and apathy quickly disappear if, for example, urgent matters arise that require a lot of effort. Then the person is completely distracted from thoughts about the weather. Or factors that bring pleasure appear - communication with loved ones, food, shopping, etc.

The second option is when a person has a so-called recurrent depressive disorder. It is characterized by recurrent episodes of depression. That is, a person feels normal, then a period of depression sets in. And such fluctuations occur throughout the year. Often the next depressive episode coincides with the end of autumn, winter. In these cases, you can find references to SAD - seasonal affective disorder. Let me emphasize: we are talking specifically about people with illness, depressive disorder. Throwing yourself into work, hobbies, and even active recreation, as a rule, cannot correct this situation. Medical attention required.

CHECK YOURSELF

Assessing our mood

Even if it seems to you that your mood is at zero all the time, remember: are there bursts of joy, enthusiasm, or any other positive emotions against the background of despondency? Imagine your favorite activities: are they attractive? If you answer “yes,” then you most likely have a normal response to bad weather (how to quickly cheer yourself up - see below).

If your gloomy state of mind is not interrupted by anything, no activities make you happy, no activities give you energy, then most likely you are faced with a depressive disorder or another psychiatric disorder (only a doctor can determine for sure). “People often think: I have circumstances, a significant reason for difficult experiences - for example, the loss of a loved one or a beloved animal. This means that a bad mood is justified, and there is no talk of depression,” says Dr. Gilev. - It's a delusion. If the body is healthy, then even the most severe tragedy cannot lead to an excessively long period of decline in mood. If the emotional state does not recover within six months , then we are definitely talking about a serious stage of depression or another disease.”

If there are no serious tragic circumstances, then a bad mood should not persist continuously for more than one and a half to two weeks, say psychiatrists. If this condition drags on longer, it may be a warning sign of the development of depression.

WHAT TO SAVE?

— Artem Andreevich, what can you say about the growth in sales of antidepressants? Apart from their side effects, is this really the most reliable way to cheer up, as many people believe?

“Antidepressants will only help if a person really has a depressive disorder,” the psychiatrist opens his eyes. “It makes no sense for a healthy person to take them; they will not give a mood-enhancing effect.

For patients with depression, medications alone may also not be enough. Another treatment method is psychotherapy. There are several varieties of it, the two most common are psychoanalysis and cognitive behavioral therapy. Psychoanalysis has been popular for a long time, but has already fallen out of fashion in the West and the USA (it is still widespread in Russia). Research shows it is only slightly effective. But cognitive behavioral therapy works great. This is confirmed by evidence-based medicine.

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— Psychoanalysis is built on a long and painstaking ascertainment of the deep origins of the patient’s problem. The person is asked to speak out, this can last for hours until some “clue” is found. “The problem is that it is not always possible to find an effective way to solve the problem after this. Mere awareness of it does not mean that a person will feel better,” explains psychiatrist Artem Gilev.

— Cognitive behavioral therapy aims to educate the patient. That is, first of all, skills are instilled in him, behavior algorithms are given that are most effective in a given situation. Even without getting to the bottom of the deep sources of depression, you can use certain techniques that will in any case give a positive result, psychiatrists assure.

PSYCHIATRIC ADVICE

How to cheer yourself up if the sun doesn't show up for a long time

1. “Establish your nutrition, ” urges Artem Gilev. — Numerous scientific studies show that it is best for both the body and the brain to eat in the spirit of the Mediterranean diet. This means: more vegetables, fruits, fish, olive oil. I recommend excluding alcoholic drinks other than dry red wine. Vodka, as well as beer, and low-alcohol tonics are harmful.”

By changing your diet, you will definitely improve your body's condition. And mental too.

Important: unhealthy diet - excess sweets, animal fats, fast food - leads to the development of atherosclerosis. With severe atherosclerotic lesions of the cerebral vessels, the risk of developing dementia (dementia) in older age increases.

2. Physical activity is another effective method of combating low mood. “Just three hours of exercise a week already produces tangible results,” explains the expert. “Exercise definitely improves your mood and helps fight fatigue, giving you vigor.”

3. Full sleep.

Lack of sleep has been proven to contribute to the development of depressive disorders. Or at least has an adverse effect on a person’s emotional state.

By the way, the latest scientific data have shown that if you can’t get enough sleep on weekdays, then extending your sleep on weekends can be beneficial for the body.

With humor

There are also quite funny and funny statuses about the weather:

• Today is a good day if you are a duck!
• Just a perfect day to just lie in bed under the covers and watch TV.
• You need to find the stars to make a wish and the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
• If it weren't for the rain, my car would never have been washed, thank you, Mother Nature.
• The original pack of Skittles does not contain blue. So you can't really taste the rainbow.