Wednesday Wellness Tool: (App)ly Mood Tracking

Moodiness, like many things, can range from feeling normal to totally out of control (I think I hear a lot of "amens" in the distance). Whether it's due to seasons, hormones, life circumstances, or anything else, when it feels like our moods are in the driver's seat, as opposed to our core selves, we tend to not feel as centered or in control. 

Senti is a new app that asks you questions that track your mood and then displays the results in graph form. The process has you reflecting on your experience and the resulting content is a simple visual image of your patterns. 

If you don't want to use the app, you can do a mood-tracking experiment on paper. Identify one to two (fixed) times per day to jot down how you feel, on a scale or 0 to 5, with 0 being "as bad as it gets" and 5 being "couldn't be better." You can add brief details about what you are doing or thinking about at the time you are rating yourself, but keep it simple.

Regardless of the medium, I think there is a great deal of power in identifying your patterns, as the next step might be finding strategies to alter your (predictably) lower times and/or bolster the high ones. See what you find out!

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