We all want to boost our happiness! That is why I am providing you with a mini-series on how to improve your happiness. In this episode, we talk about savoring the moment.
Transcript:
Welcome to Everyday Happiness where we create lasting happiness, in 2 minutes a day, through my signature method of Intentional Margins® (creating harmony between your to-dos and your priorities), happiness science, and musings about life.
I'm your host Katie Jefcoat and I was li...
We all want to boost our happiness! That is why I am providing you with a mini-series on how to improve your happiness. In this episode, we talk about savoring the moment.
Transcript:
Welcome to Everyday Happiness where we create lasting happiness, in 2 minutes a day, through my signature method of Intentional Margins® (creating harmony between your to-dos and your priorities), happiness science, and musings about life.
I'm your host Katie Jefcoat and I was listening to the Yale happiness course by Dr. Laurie Santos and she says if we can savor an experience, the taste of the cookie, we can enjoy it longer and increase our happiness.
What savoring allows us to do is capture our attention and focus on this experience we are savoring. Our minds have a terrible habit of losing interest so quickly, this helps bring it all back.
Plus, it keeps us at a high point on the curve of hedonic adaptation. So hedonic adaptation is this idea that we get used to stuff and it’s level of happiness weigns. So if we savor, it takes us longer to come down. So we’re essentially happier longer.
Dr. Santos referenced a study by Jose Et Al (2012) that identifies activities that enhance savoring, and friends, this is so cool.
This includes talking to another person about how good you felt. Looking for other people to share this experience with you. You can think about what a lucky person you are. And even thinking about how you are going to share this experience with others, buy calling them after and telling them how great this was. Savoring can also show up by showing physical expressions of energy like laughing out loud, jumping up and down. Savoring can also be telling yourself how proud you are, giving yourself a pat on the back and of course, being totally and completely present in this moment.
Lately, I’ve been savoring snuggles with my little guy, who I know, any minute, will not be into snuggling and I am savoring every moment I get. I also plan to savor - I think sometimes we need to plan and remind ourselves to savor - so I’ll plan to savor Christmas morning that lasts only a few minutes but is so much fun, and I’ll do that by really being present.
I hope this gives you some inspiration on improving your happiness, just a little, through savoring. Tell me, what are you savoring? Follow us over on instagram
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