How to boost mood in under 10 minutes.
Researchers have found there are certain stock movements in many cultures that signal joy. Those include:These movements don’t just show that we’re feeling joy, but they’ve also been found to bring about that feeling in the first place., cites a previous piece of research which got people to either stay in an open/expansive posture, or a closed posture for two minutes.
. It starts slowly, getting me to reaching my arms to the sky before moving onto gentle bopping from side to side. Slowly, it becomes more dynamic with a little knee bend and a reach. Probably my favourite bit is the ‘shake’. You start by shaking one arm, then the next, then both. Shaking legs, shaking every part of the body. I’m well aware that I must look bonkers to anyone walking past my window but I’m shaking my arse, neck, shoulders – and feeling really relaxed. Which is good because the next section is about jumping for joy while looking up, punching the sky and bouncing.
The ‘celebrate’ part of the workout mimics throwing confetti into the air and that’s a surprisingly emotive move. I’m there chucking imaginary confetti at every direction – twisting and bouncing, expanding my arms and chest in a way that feels incredible and weirdly novel. In no regular workout do you ever stretch your arms out in such an expansive way .
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