Like a puppet being blown by the wind, I am blown this way and that by the moods that come and go.
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A mood is a fickle lover, improving with good news, getting surly with bad.
A mood does not have all the facts.
A mood can lift you up or throw you into the garbage heap.
A mood is a tyrant, best deceived with subterfuge.
Sometimes a mood can be bypassed by a brisk walk in the sun, rain or snow. Brisk is the key factor.
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A good mood paints the day with sun.
A bad mood turns out the lights.
A good mood jumps on the bandwagon.
A bad mood finds fault with every scheme.
A good mood has many talents.
A bad mood is a klutz at everything.
A good mood has many friends.
A bad mood is a grouchy hermit.
A good mood can carry you forward with energy to spare.
A bad mood can keep you from loving what you love.
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Advice:
Embrace the mood and let it live large in your heart. It only wants you to acknowledge and make peace with it.
Carry on through willpower: take that brisk walk. Pick up a paintbrush. Do the laundry. Get on an airplane.
Learn what is causing the mood: twenty or thirty years of psychotherapy will help you to understand, if not to eliminate, these moods.
Change your thinking: life isn’t full of shit and pain and suffering. It’s a beautiful dance through golden fields.
I am a happy girl. I will sing happy songs.
La la la, la la, la la.
