A time in your life where the daily stresses were muted for a moment and you were fully present.įor example, my mind wanders back to a day when I was a young pre-teen, before cars and hanging out at the mall were the main activities. A moment where all the concerns, worries, anxieties, perhaps even thoughts melt away and we are left with pure feeling. Don’t worry about trying to bring to mind the most euphoric moment of your life or even the most intense we're simply after the sense of sweetness, of contentment, of a pure moment where we were fully in touch with our experiences. Get comfortable perhaps rooting your feet into the floor, or rolling your shoulders back before settling in and allowing your mind to rest on some sweet memory. So let's relish, sit, and delight in some of our sweetest moments now. The antidote is not to ignore the stressful, difficult, or painful parts of life, but to see that they are only one part of life to balance the internal scales, we must turn our attention to the joyest moments of life too and remind ourselves of what life looks like beyond survival. While our neolithic ancestors were rightly preoccupied with experiences that shape survival, our modern lives need not be quite so dire, though perhaps they are equally stressful. In terms of our neurobiology, which has evolved over time to be highly sensitive to threats, it makes sense that the more difficult parts of life would be more easily accessed, as it is these that impact our survival. ![]() This isn't because of some personal failing of ours it is built into our brains to record, remember, and ultimately learn from perceived threats to our physical and emotional safety. All too often we can remember the cringe-worthy thing we did or said in middle school in excruciating detail, but our memory is hazy when it comes to the more pleasant side of life. We spend so much of our lives worrying, problem solving, complaining, or waiting for the next thing that when a bit of sweetness arrives, we often fail to relish in it. Turning the Mind From Anxiety Towards the Sweeter Moments of Life
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