Feel Better Fast: The 5 Things That Shift Your Mood Instantly

**Mel Robbins** (0:00)
Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to The Mel Robbins Podcast.
Last week, I was on a plane flying to Michigan to visit my folks, and I had some time to kill, so I posted what I thought was just a simple question on my Instagram story. I asked, what do you need help with right now?
More than half a million of you responded. That's not an exaggeration. Half a million responses.
I couldn't believe it, and as my team and I read through just this unbelievable amount of responses, I started to notice something.
So many of you were feeling the exact same way.
Anxious, uncertain, stuck, mentally fried, and underneath all of these responses, I saw something else.
You want to feel better.
You're tired of feeling this way, and I'll tell you as your friend, I want you to feel better, and you deserve to feel better. So here's what we're going to do today.
Today, I have five science-backed tools that will help you shift your mood. These tools will quiet the noise in your head and reconnect you with the strong, capable part of you that is still in there, because that part of you is still in there, buried underneath all these feelings. And each one of the five tools we're going to talk about today are from some of your most favorite experts who have been here on The Mel Robbins Podcast. And for every one of the feelings that you're feeling, there's a different tool. And the tool is going to help you feel better fast. These tools will wake you up. They will remind you that you're not stuck and help you relight that spark, that the stress of life has extinguished. Because you can relight it. And you can feel better. And after listening today, you will.
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Hey, it's your friend Mel and welcome to The Mel Robbins Podcast. I'm really glad that you're here today because it's always an honor to spend this time together and to be with you. If you're a new listener or somebody shared this episode with you, I just want to take a moment and welcome you to The Mel Robbins Podcast family. Now, we're going to be talking about how to feel better fast. The fact that you hit play on an episode that has that title tells me that you've been dealing with a lot. I can say that with a lot of confidence because something recently happened and it blew me away. So, I was flying home to see my folks in Michigan and I had a little bit of spare time and I decided, okay, I'm just going to post a question on the stories on Instagram. And the question was super simple. It was just, what do you need help with right now? And then something happened that was shocking. Over half a million people responded. Let me just read you some of the words that kept coming up over and over and over again. Anxious, irritated, tired, stuck, flat, oh my God, flat. That's how I was feeling last week. Sluggish, fried, self-critical.
I was so shocked by how many of you responded and how consistent the words were that you were using to describe what you needed help with. And I was like, okay, we got to do something about this. Because you deserve to feel better and you can feel better. And so here's what my team and I did. We went through all of these responses and we've analyzed what are the top five feelings that are showing up right now the most in your life. And then we dug back in to the experts that have appeared on The Mel Robbins Podcast looking for the best advice to help you reset this feeling. And so we're going to go through the five most common feelings. The first being just feeling tired, flat, sluggish, oh my gosh. The second one is feeling stuck, like you're stuck in a funk or you're stuck in a bad mood. The third was brain fried. You're overstimulated. You're not sure how to get the energy or the focus back. You just feel in the brain. The fourth one was just tired.