Mood Influences
by Freepik
One tiny thought for the day.
When hanging out with friends one on one, I tend to be somewhat attentive to how the other person feels and do things to actively counteract low mood if they have it.
But I wonder if it's better to just do what gives me good mood and have that influence my friend in a contagious way?
This begs another question – how can you cultivate the ability to feel positive moods (the type that's contageous) more of the time?
Imo most people are pretty bad at this, and I feel like there's some genetic component to it as well, but I do think it's possible to practice this, I'm just not super sure how, and not sure that I've seen people write about how to do it either.
It's strange to think that I do a lot of emotional self-introspection, but haven't really found how to do this, but I want to learn!
— Categorized under: #interactions, #psychology