When you’re feeling depressed for no good reason, force yourself to laugh. It triggers happiness almost as well as externally-induced laughter. Eventually, you will noticeably condition yourself to release seratonin (or endorphins, or something) every time you notice that you’re seratonin-deficient.
It’s been effective for me. I started it as a moody teenager and it quickly became self-perpetuating. Google suggests I’m not alone. It’s got a whiff of wire-heading, I admit, but ideally you’re using it to solve a brain chemistry defect, not an external problem.
I do this. Sometimes I just smile. Sometime’s I just ‘choose’ to feel good, as if I’ve learned to control a new muscle and don’t need to go through the intermediary of laughing or smiling.
The effect is very short term for me, and I can’t maintain it while I work. It’s great for relaxing though.
Taking a physical action, such as smiling, makes it easier to maintain. I actually learned this trick back in the eighties from a book Self-Creation by George Weinberg. Your attitudes and general outlook tends to follow your physical actions as much or more than the other way around. So act how you want to feel, then you will become more like you act.
Ewww. Right in the uncanny valley. Somehow, the dialogue is just as uncanny-valley-ish as the computer-generated characters, but presumably that’s just plain ordinary ineptitude.
Final Fantasy’s never been the same since they started using (bad) voice acting. Then again, it’s also never been the same since they stopped doing random battles, so it’s not all bad.
When you’re feeling depressed for no good reason, force yourself to laugh. It triggers happiness almost as well as externally-induced laughter. Eventually, you will noticeably condition yourself to release seratonin (or endorphins, or something) every time you notice that you’re seratonin-deficient.
It’s been effective for me. I started it as a moody teenager and it quickly became self-perpetuating. Google suggests I’m not alone. It’s got a whiff of wire-heading, I admit, but ideally you’re using it to solve a brain chemistry defect, not an external problem.
I do this. Sometimes I just smile. Sometime’s I just ‘choose’ to feel good, as if I’ve learned to control a new muscle and don’t need to go through the intermediary of laughing or smiling.
The effect is very short term for me, and I can’t maintain it while I work. It’s great for relaxing though.
Taking a physical action, such as smiling, makes it easier to maintain. I actually learned this trick back in the eighties from a book Self-Creation by George Weinberg. Your attitudes and general outlook tends to follow your physical actions as much or more than the other way around. So act how you want to feel, then you will become more like you act.
You mean, read jokes?
In this scene from Final Fantasy X, Tidus and Yuna demonstrate the technique.
Ewww. Right in the uncanny valley. Somehow, the dialogue is just as uncanny-valley-ish as the computer-generated characters, but presumably that’s just plain ordinary ineptitude.
That scene, in particular, is infamous among the fandom for being horrible.
Final Fantasy’s never been the same since they started using (bad) voice acting. Then again, it’s also never been the same since they stopped doing random battles, so it’s not all bad.