10 Ways to Beat the Blues

BBC News Magazine has posted an article on some recommendations from mental health professionals on steps we can take to get the funk out, as it were.

Here’s the abbreviated list:

1. Lightboxes
2. Going out in the garden
3. Get yourself out of breath
4. Cook a meal from scratch
5. Stroke a cat
6. Pat yourself on the back
7. Take up a lifetime hobby
8. Do something for someone else – for free
9. Seek intimacy
10. Good things take time

The common theme coming out of this list is to slow down, stay engaged, and get connected to those around you. If that doesn’t work, perhaps a little John Lee Hooker or Robert Johnson is in order.

10 ways to beat the blues?