"What's The Best Way To Be Unaffected By Other's Moods? Everyone is living out their process of personal development, each according to their own evolutionary pace. No matter how it appears at times, everyone is doing the very best they can, even if sometimes that doesn't look so great when on the receiving end of rudeness or worse. A major key to enlightenment (and thereby stress reduction) in terms of dealing with other people is to train yourself to desist from taking their actions personally, even when directed at your person - this applies to their kindnesses towards you as well as their spite or neglect. Whatever others do is their business. Your business is what you do with the information arising from their actions, or indeed their moods. You are responsible only for what goes on inside you, not what goes on inside them and their resulting actions. Choose to maintain self-esteem and self-respect regardless of the opinions, moods or actions of those you encounter. Be clear you're not responsible for their choices. You are not here to make others happy. You are not here to make others unhappy. You are here to live out your process and they are here to live out theirs. When these two dovetail in a harmonious way it's a bonus, when they don't, they don't and that's all there is to it. It finally comes down to what you intend. Intend a positive outcome from every situation for all concerned and that's eventually what will come to pass, regardless of communicational hiccups along the way. But above all stay centred and in touch with your own natural self beneath the social veneers, for in that relationship will your sustenance be found."