Balance the fun part with accomplishing a task you ve been putting off because you ve been feeling low, something like cleaning out that bottom drawer, or weeding the flower beds. The rewards of satisfaction of expending physical energy give you self-confidence and spur you on in accomplishing good in other areas of your life, too. Everybody knows instinctively, I think, that it s important to be with people they like and enjoy when they re down. No one wants to be a perpetual drag on others, but good, stable friendships allow for picking each other up from time to time, as long as the shoe is not always on the same person s foot. Try something new for your body in order to help your mind.
Massage therapy is the first thing that comes to mind.
Many I know have found delicious pleasure in having all those stress kinks worked out by a diligent masseuse it s a feeling of being pampered, cared for, and everyone deserves it from time to time. Reiki and other new-age health procedures can behelpful, too. As Weil and others advise, eat healthy when you feel low probably just the reverse of what you feel like doing. While chocolate is a good mood lifter because of the natural endorphins it produces, too much overly sweetened chocolate can lead to sugar blues, and worsen your depression. Planning and executing healthy meals can be a part of the cure that gets some people enthusiastic and helps doubly so.