Top 10 Ways To Improve Your Mood This Weekend
Running two times a day in a circle, a small circle, every day 20 times at at least a 4.0 level like you were on a treadmill, ideally outside, has a greater impact on mood, lowers stress and limits anxiousness and feelings of depression better than any therapist, medication or even winning the lottery could. “It’s amazing how moving with some regularity outside, even at a snail’s pace, can do so much for mood and productivity,” says Anne Clippers, an exercise physiologist.
Here are the top 10 (okay 11) ways to improve mood based on a poll of the most prominent answers of our readers, 3,712 responses. (Represents total votes of at least 200). Notice that none of the top 10 involve sitting down and talking to a therapist, sitting in front a computer or taking a medication - true that all of these are part of life and essential for many, but there is something to moving and being silly:
Go see a comedy show and sit in the front row (1,067)
Prank your kids (933)
Go running for 20 minutes (931)
Blow bubbles and make it a competition (920)
Jump into a lake on a warm day, then walk in the woods (902)
Have a lemonade or beer and a cheeseburger on the grill on a Friday afternoon (816)
Challenge kids to a race (395)
Pretend to be something silly in a public place, like a mime at the park (303)
Ultimate frisbee at the park (219)
Set up a bowling alley in your driveway (203)
Make a top 10 list about your family’s peccadillos (201)