Day 1 What's Up Challenge - Listen to some mood-boosting music  

Why is this good for your emotional health and wellbeing?

Music is a powerful thing – it stimulates the body’s natural feel good chemicals (endorphins, oxytocin), helping to energise our mood, manage stress levels, express our feelings, increase our memory and reduce our pain levels.

How to complete this challenge?

We have put together a playlist of some of our favourite feel-good tunes.

There’s a theory that listening to…

• Blues and Reggae – makes you feel less nervous.
• Rock and Punk – gives you an energy boost.
• Classical music – calms you and increases your brain power.
• Heavy Metal – helps with low self-esteem, but is not good if you’re feeling stressed out.
• Country music – is more likely to make you feel sad.
• Music from musicals – helps you feel inspired.

Try listening to all different types of music to see which helps you when your feeling stressed, anxious or low.

The below YouTube music video is really good to watch for those moments when you are feeling down and want to feel better about yourself: