DSD - Do Something Different to feel good

D.S.D      Do Something Different

Simply effective for switching your thoughts OFF and making you feel better

Sometimes our thoughts can run away with themselves and get the better of us, for all kinds of reasons: because of obsessions, something upsetting us, rehearsing 'to do ' lists in our head, and so it goes on, and the more you try to stop those thoughts the 'louder and more persistent they seem to get'. Sound familiar?

ONE thing to do which might just help - don't think about your thoughts but just DO something different.!!

Have you ever been annoyed with something or someone, and took yourself off and cleaned the cooker or the kitchen floor or did something physical to take your mind off things? Quite simply, you Did Something Different which probably made a difference to how you were felling. So DSD can work if you let it.

WARNING:    Whenever you do something different, give it your absolute attention and energy -  with a smile on your face, and it will definitely influence how you are thinking and feeling by the time you finish.

No money needed, just use your time and energy in a different way.

So next time your 'mind has a mind of its own'..... make a commitment to DSD, and it will have a double benefit.  It will take your mind off those bothersome thoughts, AND you will end up getting something worthwhile done.  And finally, it might just make you feel good as well. 

So here goes... some other DSD activities:

• Clean - the car, the cooker, the kitchen floor, the garage, the loft, the whole house
• Walk the dog - if you haven't got one go and borrow one
• Spend some time with your children -if you haven't got any, go ask your best friends if you can take their kids off their hands for a little while - they will love you forever
• Go to an art gallery, cinema, theatre
• Cook something without a recipe book and with ingredients you have in the fridge, freezer, cupboard
• Take a power walk around the block and notice every step you make on the ground
• Play a musical instrument and make a noise - no need to make music
• Sing your favourite songs
• Sing your favourite songs to a cd while you hoover
• Mow the lawn
• Paint a wall
• Do a puzzle, jig saw, soduko, knit, sew, count the panes of glass in the house / apartment next door
• Look through your photo album
• Put all of the photos from all of your holidays in to a photo album
• Sing and dance while you do any of the above things