Is Low Mood Just Who You Are? I Don't Think So. 😊

Some people have felt low for so long they've stopped questioning it.

This is just me. I've always been like this. It runs in the family.

And I understand why it feels that way. When something has been with you for years — decades even — it starts to feel like part of your personality. Like it's built in.

But here's what I've come to believe after 17 years in this work.

We are not programmed to suffer. We are programmed to survive. And somewhere along the way, for a lot of people, surviving started to look like a permanent low mood.

Dr Joe Dispenza talks about how we become addicted to our own emotions. The brain gets so used to feeling a certain way that it actually starts to seek it out. Low mood becomes familiar. And familiar feels safe — even when it isn't serving you at all.

Bob Proctor said if you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got.

That applies to feelings too.

The good news? The brain can change. Moods can shift. Patterns that have been there for thirty years can be interrupted, examined and replaced with something better.

I've watched it happen. More times than I can count.

You are not your low mood. You are so much more than that. 💛

Beverley Sandler — 4TherapyUK — Prestwich, Bury, Whitefield & Radcliffe