It feels awful when you suddenly lose that feeling of happiness you were experiencing, and it feels even worse when you start to feel bad or down without any warning signs.
If you are an oversensitive person, then you may even be more subject to these kinds of sudden mood fluctuations.
This article will help you prevent these mood swings, and it will allow you to extend your periods of happiness significantly.
How to Prevent Mood Swings
One perfect thing you can do to make mood swings happen less frequently is a technique called “Locking your Emotions.”
This technique is based on a realistic assumption, which implies that many mood swings happen simply because we tend to persistently search and dig until we find something that makes us feel bad.
Here are some examples:
- A stock market investor who checks his stocks’ prices every hour: will increase his chance of encountering something that he does not like. After all, some people feel bad even when their stocks drop only a few cents, while other people feel disappointed when they find that their stocks didn’t increase in price as they expected or even worse, when they sold their stocks too early, missing out on more potential profits.
- Someone always tries to search for clues to prove that he isn’t bad-looking, boring, or unlikeable. Since this is not a perfect world, he will never find exact clues and just fall prey to his negative thoughts.
- Someone who digs deeply, trying to analyze any criticism he receives to find anything wrong with him.
It’s essential not to misunderstand what is being said. I’m not asking you to stop keeping track of your financial matters or escape from problems, but what I am asking you to do is stop overdoing it because this will increase your chance of getting a mood swing.
Watching your stocks’ price ten times a day or digging behind things that will always make you feel bad will always result in mood swings!!! It will only increase your chance of feeling down, and it’s a totally useless activity.
Lock your Emotions
So let’s put it all together. If you feel happy or satisfied, try not to do unnecessary actions that can swing your mood, and you will find that your state of happiness lasts for much longer than it used to.
Of course, you must go through daily important tasks and routines but only do them when you have to and not just because you want to dig for more information.
