10 Ways to Start Your Day with a Good Mood

Here's 10 easy tricks that reduce stress and boost bliss and don't cost much time or money!

1. Eat Chocolate - There's a reason why biting into a candy bar feels heavenly - chocolates sends feel-good chemicals throughout your body.
2. Listen to Slow music - A study published in the British medical journal Heart found that listening to slow-tempo music like classical or "easy-listening" songs reduced hearth and respiratory rates.
3. Breathe Deep! - Recent reasearh suggest that takeing long, deep breaths for just 10 minutes a day can lower blood pressure. By breathing deeply, the body gets the oxygen in needs to function at optimum levels - plus the technique is free, and portable!
4. Schedule a Short Siesta - in reasearh from the National Sleep Foundation, participants who napped for 10 minutes in the afternoon experienced a bigger boost in mood and cognitive function than groups who napped 5,20 or 30 minutes.
5. 5. Get some Natural Light - Sunlight trigges the body to produce vitamin D. For most people, just 10 to 20 minutes will do. lack of Vitamin D has been linked to depression in some studies.
6. 6. Smell the Herbs - In a study at Western Oregon University, the smell of lavender relieved feelings of tension after anxiety-provoking tasks. Get your favourite bath soak or candle in a lavender scent.
7. 7. Pet Bonding - Reasearch at the University of Missouri at Columbia found that a few minutes of playing with four-legged friends raises level of good-mood-inducing brain chemicals serotonin oxytocin.
8. 8. Shop Around - Studies show that shopping releases the joy-inducing chemical dopamine in the brain. Evan Browsing actives the pleasure center in the brain.
9. 9. Walk Around - A recent study published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise found that a 30-minute walk can bring on feeling of well-being.
10. 10. Wear a Rainbow - Want a burst of pep? Slip into something red and yellow. Research has shown that such "hot" colors trigger a chemical reaction in the body that mimics a mini adrenalin rush.

I tried all of this and it really works! so amazing!