You must enjoy life, take it easy and fully enjoy the present moment, keep your eyes and heart open to your environment, when you live the moment, your experiences help you stay positive when things get complicated, remember that spending quality time on the things that matter most positively affect your physical and mental health.
At first glance, it seems obvious. You may already know that you would probably feel better if you could go a little slower and enjoy the simplest things in your daily life, however, as writer and researcher Nassim Taleb points out, people’s common sense fails.
- We’ve forgotten how to taste life.
- Many of us are trapped in these strange mazes of pressure.
- Fear and anguish.
- There is so much to do and so much uncertainty that looking at the present and enjoying it is very complicated.
Plus, there’s the fact that the brain is always aware of threats and potential risks, it doesn’t care if you’re happy or not. Its main goal is to stay alive, so you must make a conscious effort to learn to appreciate life.
Conscious attention control also creates a type of cognitive and emotional reserve that directly affects your health, which is important to consider.
We’ve all done this at some point in our lives. When you feel good, happy and satisfied, you try to take a ‘mental image’. You probably even said, “I’ll remember this moment forever. ” This memory includes not only the things that were happening at the time, but also the things he felt and thought.
Something as simple (and wonderful) as keeping those memories is more than making sure you can remember this wonderful experience, this process is also a voluntary cognitive and emotional act that makes the present moment useful for the future. one way or another, feel today’s happiness in the future.
It’s a mindfulness exercise. This happens in a conscious mind full of positive emotions. The art of savoring life is precisely this: being able to create moments of well-being and integrate them into memory. With this, they become “happiness pills” for tomorrow.
In 2018, Marios Biskas of the University of Southampton in the UK conducted a study on nostalgia and discovered a number of aspects to consider:
Dr. Biskas and his team have shown that creating this type of memory allows us to recover those fragments in the future and to feel these positive emotions again, it is a kind of rewarding nostalgia. So it consists of having an open window through which you can look from time to time to breathe and engage in pleasant sensations.
Building this autobiographical memory based on moments of balance, inner peace and well-being positively affects your psychological balance.
To savor life, you must first create the moment, many people think that happiness comes and goes and that moments of well-being are casual and do not always depend on ourselves, it is a mistake.
You play a role in your own happiness. We all need to promote these good times in our lives. This means knowing how to slow down, relax and have a good time with the people you love, as well as quality time alone to connect with ourselves.
You don’t need big events or expensive trips for that, the best way to enjoy life is simplicity, look at life with an open and humble look that allows you to appreciate the most basic things when you’re living these moments of well-being, try to activate conscious control of your memory and keep that moment in your mind.
The more willing you are and the more control you have to accumulate those moments of balance and happiness, the more your brain will cooperate, this will make it easier to maintain these memories of well-being, this is an interesting task that will help you create a cognitive and emotional reserve.