Vishen LakhianiFounder of Mindvalley | NYT Bestselling Author | Transforming Lives Globally

Rough day? Try this funny exercise #shorts

23 Dec 2022 · 1 min

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A short YouTube clip (Vishen Lakhiani) highlighting the role of physiology in mood and depression. The speaker argues that depressed presentation includes body language and voice, then leads a brief, playful group exercise (big smile + audible noise + look at neighbor) to shift mood through deliberate physical changes.

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You see, physiology is so important because over the years nobody has ever come in to my office and gone, I'm depressed. No, what's happened is because there's a certain physiology with depression, right? They come in and they go, I'm just, you know, rubbish and looking at the ground. That's sort of thinking, the whole voice tone that goes with being depressed, right, let's just do an exercise that is silly but not stupid because we're going to use our physiology to change how we feel. So I'd like you to pull the biggest smile you've ever pulled and make a specific noise with this at the same time. So I want you to go on the count of three I want you to go like this, right, and turn and look at the person next to you, right? On the count of three. One, two, three. Excellent. Who feels good? Yeah. Woo.