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The Path to Harmony: How to Track Your Emotions And Improve Your Mood Every Day

If you want to live a happy and fulfilled life, you have to be in control of it. The less chaos there is in each aspect of your life, the easier it is to feel content, productive, and healthy on every level. 

Emotional health is the area we often neglect, but harmonizing our feelings can become the missing puzzle in our inner peace. And to know for sure what we feel and what causes those states, we need to keep track of every emotion. Is that possible? Presumably—yes!

Here are some of the best tips on how to track your emotions and feel better day by day!

Pick The Most Suitable Tracking Tool

First and foremost, you have to decide where and how you are going to check in with your emotions. Today, there are numerous tools available, and you can pick whatever feels right for you. 

If you enjoy more of an old-school style, you can try journaling: writing with a pen instead of clicking the keyboard is a grounding activity in itself, so this might be very suitable for mood tracking. 

Then, a mood tracker in the app like Liven could be a very handy option: always at your fingertips, no need to carry any extra items with you, plus an emotional menu to choose from is provided (which can make the results more precise). 

As for the unusual tools, there is a mood mandala: the pattern you color, where every shade embodies a certain emotion. In the end, you get a beautiful picture of your mental state, and you can judge what your mood is by the color prevailing.

Be Honest In Your Answers

If there was only one thing that could give you the best experience and result in mood tracking, that would be honesty. As this is a personal practice, there would be nobody to judge you, so be realistic and fair: write down or click on the real feelings you have. In this case, online mood trackers that offer you a list of emotions can be especially helpful because they can give you hints on what you feel. Besides, you can learn to differentiate one feeling from another thanks to such a list.

Giving yourself some time to listen to your heart and honestly tracking your state can help you see the patterns in your mood, which, in turn, gives you a vision of what can be changed. 

Track Both Good And Bad Emotions

All feelings we experience are valid and deserve to be noticed and lived through. You might have had a prejudice since childhood that emotions like anger, irritation, sadness, or anxiety are shameful, but in reality, they are not. On the contrary, they give us valuable messages that something is wrong, and by finding the reason, we can eliminate it and get back to normal. 

Also, we can forget to track a good mood, because, when we feel fine, there is no reason for us to pay attention to its roots and try to figure out what led to it. Still, this is an important part of an overall picture of your emotional state in the long run, so try to stay thoughtful on your feelings and scan your mood even in the happy moments.

Stay Consistent

The more regularly you track your mood, the more information there will be for you to reflect on. The data an app or your mood journal would collect will give you a clear vision of how your emotions change throughout a day or month. Thus, you will be able to see if there is a certain pattern or if the data you log in is quite chaotic (spoiler alert: oftentimes, a pattern is very easily spotted).

Also, if there is a negative tendency in your notes, this might be the sign to seek help from a mental health specialist.

Analyze Triggers & Patterns

It is a good idea to broaden the information you log in when tracking mood. Don’t limit yourself to emotions only: add some data on who you were with when you tracked your emotions, what you were doing at that moment, or where you were at.

Later on, when you are more objective in your observations, it will be easier for you to notice the triggers that might cause your feelings. Also, if you have noticed that there is a certain pattern in how you feel during the day (for example, you always wake up motivated but feel tired and stressed by the afternoon), analyze it step-by-step. What happens in the first half of the day that makes you exhausted? How can you change that? Is there a way to switch activities in your routine so that you stay productive and satisfied?

Summing up

Tracking your mood is an easy and useful practice to take on to raise the level of self-awareness and harmony in your life. By knowing what you feel and why, you gain the power to understand not only yourself but other people, too. It becomes easier for you to make the right assumptions about how a person feels and offer effective ways to help them.

Mood trackers can take different forms, and you are free to pick the one that suits you best—an app on your phone, a journal, or other tools to your taste. Use them regularly to gather more insights into your inner state and stay honest with yourself—it is only your need and responsibility!

Take this simple step towards a harmonious life, and you will start to notice your results pretty soon.