A mood is a feeling tone that lasts for a while and can colour how a period of time feels, without always having one clearly identified cause.
A particular emotion may follow a particular event. A mood can seem to be there before the event arrives.
Everything looks slightly harder today.
The message seems abrupt. The task seems pointless. The idea you liked yesterday looks embarrassingly ambitious.
There may be something real to address. You may also be tired, disappointed or carrying a low mood into several different situations.
I AWAKE invites you to include that condition in the account. You don’t have to dismiss every concern because your mood is difficult. You also don’t have to turn one difficult afternoon into a final assessment of your life.
A change that persists, causes distress or affects everyday functioning deserves appropriate support beyond a reflective book.
State includes mood alongside energy, sensation and attention. Interpretation considers how those conditions can influence the meaning you give an event.
Noba’s Emotion Experience and Well-Being introduces emotional experience and well-being, providing a wider context for the difference between a passing feeling and a more sustained emotional tone.