Music Therapy…

How do you cope with the return of the bad weather? Not that we had a brilliant summer, I know, but every year is the same story for me. As soon as the cold return and days are shorter, I get into a vegetative state. I just want to sleep, and eat, and eat, and eat more… not good when you are on a Yummy Mummy mission!

This morning I was up with my eldest son at 5.30 am. To cut short a long story, my husband wanted to help me this morning, feeling guilty for having a night out last night… :) at the first murmur of our son, he jumped out of bed, and took him downstairs. I realised when I heard Elliott screams coming from the kitchen! I asked my husband why he took him out of bed, if he’d seen the time and he said “no, what time is it?” well “5.22 am, dear!!!!”. He then tried to take him back to bed, but of course he had been too stimulated to go back to sleep. I felt bad for letting Craig to look after him with a hangover (he won’t admit he has one though), so after he came back to bed and Elliott had spent a good few minute crying, I got out of bed and took Elliott with me.

Here I was on the sofa half asleep with my little boy and his big puffy eyes… It was so dark outside that I felt a bit low, but then, I had an idea, I could get my ipod and play my good mood music!

10 min later, I was frantically dancing in the middle of the kitchen, listening to my “sunny songs”, you won’t believe how good it felt!! I am still full of holiday and sunshine feeling and I am going to nurse that feeling all day long… well probably until 1.00 pm when I will go for a well deserved nap!

So here is what I recommend you do, if like me the lack of warmth and sunlight is affecting you:

  1. Make a list of your 10 favourite upbeat songs, don’t worry about the naf ones, they are usually the best one to lift up your mood.
  2. Either download them or copy them, but put them all together.
  3. Copy the disk or have them in your ipod in one album.
  4. Play it every time you are feeling a bit low. You have to listen well to your songs, that’s the trick! It is not as effective if you put it just in the background. If you haven’t got much time do this with only a couple of songs and let the rest play while you get on with your things.
  5. Dance like you never danced before, sing like you never sung before, or just lie down close your eyes and remember your holidays, that really fun night out you had or anything you like remembering.
  6. Remember that those songs are supposed to lift up your mood, so avoid sad, slow songs.
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  • Peggy Poyser@becaboop exactly, really gross! - posted on 02/09/2010 22:08:23
  • REBECCA @PerfHappyMum its the wet flobby sound that I hate,gross! - posted on 02/09/2010 22:07:03
  • Peggy Poyser@becaboop oh I hate that when my dog does it! Same feeling as nails on black board for me, arrgghh - posted on 02/09/2010 21:58:53
  • Peggy Poyser@misslexyellis yes bless mine, it already started with Twitter, iPad finished it ;) - posted on 02/09/2010 21:49:14
  • Clare @PerfHappyMum Oh I'm so jealous!! Will never get to replace mine with an ipad ;) - posted on 02/09/2010 21:00:29
  • Peggy PoyserI don't need a husband, I've got an ipad... ;) - posted on 02/09/2010 20:58:33
  • Amanda O'Hara@PerfHappyMum Ah, I don't use outlook or entourage anymore, I use Googlemail so I can access from anywhere. Prob useless for me! - posted on 02/09/2010 18:32:37
  • Peggy Poyser@flyingstartmag I am looking for a way to sync my outlook with my ipad and it is suggested - posted on 02/09/2010 18:30:51
  • Amanda O'Hara@PerfHappyMum I have mobile me on my mac, but I don't use it! What is it?!!! - posted on 02/09/2010 18:27:20
  • Peggy PoyserAnyone using mobile me for iPad? What do you think? - posted on 02/09/2010 18:26:08

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