Your Low-Stress Guide to Leveling-Up Your Bedtime Routine
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Aside from simply experiencing the joyful moments themselves, its key to take time to reflect and appreciate them.
Studies have found that savoring, or appreciating and marinating in happy thoughts,benefits sleepandoverall well-being.
It helps to reinforce the happy emotional response youre feeling.
How to find and recognize joy in your life
So how does onefindjoy exactly?
Block off time in your calendar, if thats what it takes.
science director at the University of California, Berkeley’sGreater Good Science Center
However, I didnt want to alter my behavior too much.
On my daily walks, I specifically rolled by houses and neighborhoods known to have beautiful plants and architecture.
I also invited my friends to join me when they could which was a nice pick-me-up.
As work ramped up during the day, it became a bit tougher to appreciate the little things.
I made sure to incorporate daily walks and ate lunch away from my desk, too.
Cold, miserable weather didnt help motivate me, either.
Even just this small swap had me feeling refreshed and like Id emerged from a spa.
By reorienting to what was accessible to me and not focusing on what wasnt, I salvaged things.
At the end, I felt a greater sense of relief and calm than I had before I started.
science director at the University of California, Berkeley’sGreater Good Science Center
I found myself looking forward to recounting which small experiences made me happiest.
I dont plan to stop joy snacking just because the experiment is over, either.
I plan to continue to fill my days with the little things that make them brighter.
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