Top 10 Ways to Boost Your Mood through Movement

Do you ever find yourself slouching in your chair or walking with hunched shoulders and a droopy neck? We’re all guilty of these posture no-nos from time to time, but new research reveals that poise is not the only thing lost when we give in to the temptation to slump. Such postures can send “sad” signals to our brain, darkening our mood. On the other hand, acting out certain “happy” movements has the opposite effect, brightening our outlook and lifting our spirits.

What’s more, Shafir and her colleagues found that we don’t even have to enact these so-called happy and sad movements in order to experience the corresponding emotions. Simply observing someone else carrying out those motions or silently imagining them can be enough to trigger heightened feeling in either direction.

“When we make a gesture and the movements are related to a specific emotion, it can elicit or create that emotion in us.”

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