Recognize and savor positive feelings from "summary" of Hardwiring Happiness by Rick Hanson,PhD
The key to emotional well-being is recognizing and savoring positive feelings when they arise. This simple practice can have a profound impact on your overall happiness and resilience. When you take the time to acknowledge and appreciate moments of joy, gratitude, love, or contentment, you are actively rewiring your brain to focus on the positive aspects of your life. By consciously savoring positive experiences, you are reinforcing neural pathways that are associated with feelings of happiness and well-being. This process helps to counteract the brain's natural negativity bias, which tends to focus on threats and negative outcomes. When you actively seek out and savor positive feelings, you are training your brain to notice and prioritize the good things in your life. To effectively recognize and savor positive feelings, it's essential to engage all of your senses in the experience. Take a moment to fully immerse yourself in the positive emotion, paying attention to the physical sensations, thoughts, and emotions ...
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