What is a mental trick you use personally to snap out of a bad mood or negative thought pattern?

Move or breathe is my fix. https://swellandcut.com/antidotes-to-depression/

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Indeed 😂 its in stasis until I get Some Things in Order. Glad it resonates.

Oh, is this your blog?? I just noticed the reference to 1Q84. Read this a while ago - have only the elusive 'feeling' of what the book was like.

I can relate to this so well. Very well written too, real pleasure to read.

⭐ "Movement mitigates depression by destroying our focus on the negative aspects of existence. Mindfulness mitigates depression by enhancing our focus on the negative aspects of existence, thus revealing them as transient and not as omnipotent as we first thought."