Show so you think you have moods bloods A young navy lieutenant not too long out of the service told me over the luncheon table the other d day ay that he became very much disc discouraged 0 ur over himself I 1 pointed out he any reason to b be e he has a good job hes doing it well just the trouble he said im not doing it well I 1 know im not one day I 1 feel sure that I 1 have hava everything a man needs to be successful and happy then the next day im clear down in the dum dumps pa its ita my moods 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 cando a bout about his moods I 1 told him furthermore something he never heard of before that having moods is perfectly 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 now we know that at certain 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 of how things break largely responsible for this information is dr rexford hershey of the university of pennsylvania one of the first scientists to study our emotional curves by his bis researches or dr hershey proved thalme that we all have our ups and downs and these occur with regularity we are elated cheerful pleasant unpleasant peevish grouchy that Is one cycle then we wa 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 other every two or op three month hs highly emotional people go through their emotional cycles cycle often in less than two week time then start all over again they are always in a dit dither herBut but long or short each of us has his emotional curve maybe you are wondering what you can do to control this curve you cant control it but you can ding disguise utise it so that regardless of how you really feel you put your best beat foot forward where the rest of the th world Is concerned and how do you do that its simple simpie just remember that we take our emotions from our actions not our ur actions from rom our emotions in other words to feel cheerful just act cheerful the next time you reach the low point of your emotional burve curve try that act cheerful talk cheerful and you will be sheer beer ful |