The most effective natural mood boosting foods are oily fish like salmon, herring, mackerel, trout and tuna. Beside that purified fish oil supplements made from these fish are also considered as the best available natural mood boosters. Studies have already demonstrated the mood enhancing effect of fish oil. Oily fish contains omega 3 fatty acids, including EPA, which is essential for optimum brain function on a daily basis and our body is unable to produce EPA, therefore we have to source it from the diet. In the present atmospheric condition presence of toxins made the fish almost inconsumable but purified fish oil supplements are an excellent way to get your daily dose of EPA and improve your mood.

Another effective and natural way to naturally boost your mood is to increase the amount of physical activity you do as it releases feel good chemicals in your brain and reduces stress. Even taking a short daily walk in the countryside can increase feelings of well being and lift the spirits to a great height.

Vitamin B supplements can help you to ward off the depression and improve your mood and health in general.  Vitamin B gets destroyed by alcohol, tea, coffee and nicotine. The B vitamins can be found in dark leafy green vegetables, beans and peas as well as grains like oats and wheat that can be taken as food and the side effect they produce is the mood boosting. Likewise sunlight also plays major role as natural mood booster. Adequate dose of sunlight is quite essential for sound mental health as sunlight increases serotonin levels. Trying to get around 30 minutes outside in the sun each morning can make all the difference to your mood.

Caffeine gives us a boost and it is available most commonly in the coffee and tea. It is considered as a stimulant and works quite nicely as a mood booster. However, too much caffeine is not good for our health. If you want to have tea or coffee then try to limit it to one cup on daily basis. Like tea and coffee chocolate also contains many chemicals that helps mood boosting, the chemicals in chocolate help to sustain the levels of mood boosting chemicals in the brain for longer periods of time. However, the down side to eating chocolate is weight gain and therefore an increased risk of heart disease and other health problems.

Let us begin with Oatmeal. The Oatmeal helps you to relieve bad-temperament and irritable feeling quite effectively. The oatmeal is full of soluble fiber that helps to bring down blood sugar levels by reducing the absorption of sugar into the blood. Oatmeal is also considered as a great food because the soluble fiber present in oatmeal forms a gel that slows down the emptying process of stomach so you don’t feel hungry quickly after having the oatmeal. Other foods having high soluble fiber contents are beans, peas, barley, citrus fruits, strawberries and apples. To add some variety and richness to your oatmeal you can add coarsely chopped apple with cinnamon or strawberries and sliced almonds.
Next in our list is the walnut. Walnuts are an exceptional source of omega-3 essential fatty acids, a type of fat that’s needed for brain cells and mood-lifting neurotransmitters to function properly and helps people down with depression. Other foods having omega-3 fatty acids contents include salmon, sardines, flaxseeds etc.

Our next food item is quite familiar and popular throughout the world. You must be curious about it now, its tea. Although tea is a rich source of caffeine and caffeine has been well known to lead to a more positive mood. But too much caffeine can make you dependent. It is advisable to limit yourself to no more than one cup of tea per day. You can try green tea or Indian tea made with regular black tea plus spices such as cardamom and cinnamon. You can go in for the herbal tea also if you like.

Next is the much talked about food item, ‘Salmon’, it is a rich source of vitamin D. In the recent past research has successfully established that vitamin D increases the levels of serotonin, one of the key neurotransmitters influencing our mood, and it helps to relieve mood disorders to quite an extent. Vitamin D is manufactured by our body mainly through exposure to sunlight and in lesser amounts, through food.
Canned salmon with bones is rich in vitamin D. It is also an excellent source of omega-3 fatty acids. Other foods items rich in vitamin D are fortified milk and fortified soy milk.
Our next food item is Lentil. It is a member of the legume family; lentils are an excellent source of folate, an ingredient of vitamin B that is essential for mood and proper nerve function in the brain. Usually a cup of cooked lentils provides 90% of the recommended daily allowance of folic acid. Other sources of folate include fortified breakfast cereals, spinach, broccoli, liver, and beans.

Vitamin D is also considered as a great mood boosting effect and sunlight is a good source of Vitamin D. Therefore going outside in the sunshine also boosts your mood instantly. This works best if it is actually sunny outside, but it still seems to help in other weather conditions. If you are not able to out in the sunshine then intake of Vitamin D also helps you to boost your mood instantly.

If you focus on the flow moving in and out of your lungs for at least 10 minutes, it will help you to initiate a relaxation response that lowers your breathing rate, heart rate, and blood pressure and reducing tension with boosting your mood. To do this you have to sit in a comfortable position and pick a meaningful word or phrase. Now close your eyes and relax your muscles, breathe gently. Each time you exhale, try to concentrate your focus on the chosen word or phrase.

If you achieve something that also makes you feel great and works as a instant mood booster. To achieve this you may take up small tasks before you and try to accomplish it in an organized manner. You will see that the timely completion of the work gives an instant elevation to your mood and makes you happy. You can try it out in your daily routine you will feel the difference.
You might also benefit from talking to a professional. Sometimes if you talk out the thoughts emerging inside you with someone it helps you to get an instant boost in the mood. Studies have shown that this works as well as medication in many cases and it can give you enduring tools to overcome these feelings for life. Another vital and instant mood booster is smiling. If you are able to smile it helps you to correct your mood instantly.
These are some of the things around you to get the instant mood boosting.

It is quite essential to start your day with a breakfast rich with protein. Having a protein rich breakfast will helps to aid a quicker metabolism activity during the day time, simultaneously aiding in dieting and weight-loss. Always remember eating protein rich foods will also be beneficial to your mood, because different amino acids that form the architecture of protein also helps to increase the body’s energy and increase the alertness level of mind. Protein rich food sources include meats, fish, eggs, cheese, poultry and nuts etc. Eggs are considered as protein rich, they are also beneficial in regards to mood boosting, also aiding us in improved memory and increased concentration. The presence of choline, an active nutrient of eggs is responsible for that.

In the contrast the carbohydrate rich food can also increase the energy level for a short period of time, but simultaneously carbohydrates serve to clear the body of amino acids while also causing our body to release insulin. While carbohydrate rich food can help you to reduce the stress, but at the same time it also withdraws the beneficial mood effects of protein rich foods, therefore it is quite essential to keep in mind the negative effects of the carbohydrates and to be careful for not combining the two types of food, if possible.

Sometime you find yourself susceptible to bad mood and quirkiness and it may be due to Selenium deficiency in your body. Selenium is often present in certain meats, fish and nuts like tuna, swordfish or Brazil nuts; it usually available in a large variety of plant foods. People who are lacking selenium in their diet can find themselves suffering from bad moods. Consuming foods with selenium can help you to return your body to a proper balance. Folic acid is also very effective mood booster and the foods that contain this ever-important mood booster are leafy green vegetables like spinach, nuts, seeds, citrus fruits, and poultry, to name a few. Folic acid is a component of the vitamin B group, and its deficiency can cause serotonin levels to increase, which may cause the mood disorders.

Beside these there are many food products available for us that has been provided to us by Mother Nature and if you are really interested about them you can search for them online or in a well equipped library. 

Likewise eating chocolate acts as a mood booster for some people as the chocolate contains phenylethylamine considered as a mood booster according to many of the researchers and it does stimulates the production of serotonin, a natural antidepressant by the brain. Another powerful and healthy mood booster is music. The music when played always spreads mood boosting effects beside that music is found to be having properties influencing health of the individual. Next that works quite well as a natural health and mood booster is Vitamin D. Vitamin D is supposed to greatly influence the production of serotonin, a powerful mood booster chemical produced by the human brain. As you know Vitamin D is produced by the human skin in the presence of sunlight. Hence taking a stroll in the morning sun acts as a potent mood booster for many of the people and beside that morning walk has got its own positive side effects.

Massage is also considered as a very powerful tool to relax your body out of stress thus boosting your mood and providing you soothing effects side by side. This happens because of the massage lowers the levels of cortisol, a powerful stress hormone. Like the massage a good and sound sleep also plays vital role in the mood boosting phenomenon. When you sleep your brain actively works to rebuild the exhausted stock of the mood boosting hormones and when you get up after getting a sound sleep your mood automatically refreshes. If you can’t get a proper sleep then it causes bad mood most of the time. Beside that a sound sleep plays a vital role for your health also.

Beside these factors your food also plays a powerful part in the mood changes many of the food products like the proteins and green leafy vegetables are considered as powerful mood boosters and the food items like the carbohydrates are considers as the mood depressors according to many researchers. Minerals like the calcium and selenium also act as the mood boosters in many of the cases. As far as the health properties of these products are well established by the researches

Studies have shown that the plant (botanical name hypericum perforatum) is very effective in treating mood disorders and that too with lesser adverse effects like lowered libido that accompany with the use of standard antidepressants like Prozac. Researchers are investigating exactly how St. John’s Wort works. Now the focus of interest has been shifted to hypericin, a plant compound that scientists believe may regulate brain chemicals, such as serotonin and monoamine oxidase that are critical to change of mood. It was believed that the herb represses an important enzyme called monoamine oxidase, and increases the levels of serotonin in the brain. This new information indicates the herb is a weak MAO inhibitor at best, and that instead it may work more like Prozac.

Double-blind trials on patients with mild or moderate depression found that hypericin (the main ingredient from the St. John’s Wort) yields excellent results. Most of the patients began reporting effects within the first two weeks of use, and maximum benefits reported peaking up after six to eight weeks of use. All the studies used an extract standardized to contain .3% hypericin. The recommended dose is 300 mg three times daily of extract standardized to 0.3 percent of hypericin. This herb has become so popular that it can be found on the shelves of most of the drug stores and through the online stores too.

This herb can be used with antidepressant drugs, but combined use requires the supervision of a physician who has prescribed the antidepressant. Patients on several antidepressants sometimes suffer confusion, fever, shivering, sweating, diarrhea, and muscle spasms known commonly as the serotonin syndrome. The extract is quite safe; no significant side effects have been reported yet. Occasionally, according to studies, users experienced gastrointestinal irritation, allergic reactions, or fatigue. The herb’s general safety record is excellent. Pregnant and lactating women are advised to avoid St. John’s Wort.

Beside the St. John’s Wort there are many more herbal mood boosters are available in the nature, they are ginkgo, kava, tyrosine and SAM-e. but they are not so popular as compared to the St. John’s Wort, however ginkgo is being used in the east Asian countries from quite some time successfully and command a fair amount of popularity there.  

Another much unnoticed and powerful mood booster around us is a good and sound sleep. If late nights are a regular way of life for you, it may be affecting your mood and outlook on life. Getting less sleep than usually required can increase anxiety, tension, and bad mood. Lack of sleep reduces emotional and physical well-being, reduces optimism, and even contributes to the onset and worsening of physical pain. Therefore it may be advised to go to bed 30 minutes earlier every night and make your bed a peaceful sanctuary. Also consider treating yourself to soft bed sheets.

Another fact is that it’s quite impossible to relax and feel great when everywhere you look, is cramped and messy and loaded with bills, papers etc. The appointment cards piled on workspaces and spilling out of drawers with all sorts of mess gives you another low on your mood. Organizing the home and office is a great way to begin with. Having everything in order can help calm anxiety, and provide a soothing effect; it also plays a great role in fixing your bad mood. If you are unable to organize your home nicely then you may turn to home stores for help. There are many types of organizers available in the market to assist you in storing your things in a neat, easily accessible way.

Next is music, it has a powerful effect on mood and it is also considered as a very powerful mood booster as it activates areas of the brain involved in the feeling of happiness. The music can lower blood pressure, heart rate, stress hormone levels, and may even improve cognitive abilities according to many researchers. You can listen to music while traveling to work or during your lunch break or before you go to bed. What is most important is that you listen to music that you enjoy. Try music especially designed for relaxation or sounds of nature.

Aromatherapy is also considered a great mood booster; it involves the use of concentrated, aromatic plant oils called essential oils. It has been found that people exposed to the scent of lavender or rosemary essential oils felt more at ease. Lavender essential oil is thought to have calming properties and it can be used for getting a well boosted mood.