Show sou so you think you have moods A young navy lieutenant not too long out of the service told me over the luncheon table the other day that he became very much aged over himself I 1 pointed out he hadn haan t any reason to be he has a good job he s doing it well that s just the trouble he said I 1 m not doing it well I 1 know I 1 m not one day I 1 feel sure that I 1 have everything a man needs to be sue suc and happy then the next day I 1 m clear down in the dumps it a my moods isn t there anything a person can do about moods I 1 told him as I 1 am presently going to tell you that of course there is something anyone can do about his moods I 1 told him further more something be he never heard of before that having moods Is per factly normal perfectly nat natural natal al and a good rather than a bad thing we know a good deal more about moods now than we did a few years ago for now we know that at tain times we are going to be happy regardless of how things break for us while at others we are going to feel depressed also regard less of how things break largely responsible for this in formation Is dr rexford hershey of the university of pennsylvania one of the first scientists to study our emotional curves by his researches dr hershey proved that we all have our ups and downs and these occur with regu lanty larity we are elated cheerful pleasant unpleasant peevish p e e v I 1 s h grouchy that is one cycle then we become elated cheerful pleasant and so forth again our lives are a series of cycles emotional cycles these cycles moreover appear with almost exact regularity with some persons they appear every month with others every two or three months highly emotional people go through their emotional cycles often in less than two weeks time then start all over again they are always in a dither but long or short each of us has his emotional curve maybe you are wondering what you can do to control this curve you can t control it but you can disguise it so it that at regardless of how you really fei beef P you put your best foot forward where the rest of the world is concerned and how do you do that it s sim pie just remember that we take our emotions from our actions not our actions from our emotions in other words to feel cheerful just act cheerful the next time tim e you reach the low point of your emo dional curve try that act cheerful talk cheerful and you will be cheerful |