Show So You Think You Have Moods l A young navy lieutenant not too long out of the service told me over the luncheon table the other ollier day that he became very much discouraged discouraged discouraged aged over himself himsel I pointed out he hadn't any reason to be He has a good job Hes He's doing It welL just the trouble he said Im not doing it well I know Im I'm not One day I feel sure that I have everything a man needs to be successful successful successful suc suc- and happy Then the next day Im I'm clear down in the dumps Its It's my moods Isn't there anything a person can do about moods I told him as I am presently going to tell you that of course there is something anyone can do about his moods I told him furthermore furthermore furthermore further further- more something he never heard of before that having moods is perfectly perfectly perfectly per per- normal perfectly natural 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 tor now we know that at certain certain certain 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 regardless regardless regard regard- less of h how w things break Largely responsible for tor this information Information information In in- formation is Dr Rexford Hershey of the University of Pennsylvania one of tho 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 regu- larity We are elated cheerful pl pleasant unpleasant p pee peevish e e v vis i s h grouchy That Is one cycle Then we become elated cheerful pleasant and so forth again Our lives are a series of emotional cycles c cycles cles motIonal 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 l people go through their emotional cycles often otten in less than weeks' weeks time then start all over again acain they are always in a dither But long or short each of us has his bis emotional curve Maybe you are wondering what you can do to control this curve You cant can't control It but you can can disguise it so that regardless of how you really feel you put your best foot forward where the rest of the world Is concerned And how do you do that Its It's sim aim 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 you reach the low point of your emotional emotional emotional emo emo- curve try that Act cheerful talk cheerful and you will be cheerful cheerfuL cheer cheer- fuL tul 0 J 1 |