Savoring Everyday Life

Savoring Everyday Life

Is Savoring Everyday Life worth our time today?  I think so, with certainty.  WHY?  Because a plurality of us [if NOT a majority] are NOT savoring life the way it should happen.  BTW, we DON'T need those 'gratitude tools' to be SAVORING life.  Although we do understand that it is challenging to focus on the bright side while living in a fast-paced world and being immersed in an influx of information heavily centered on negative events💥💥💥

And while adversity is part of our humanity, it does NOT mean that there is NO space for brighter things to happen.  Intentionally placing our attention on positive events and prolonging the positive feelings that arise can buffer against those NEGATIVITIES that wreaks havoc in our daily life.  For alignment, let us agree on the definition of SAVORING which, simply put, is appreciating and enhancing positive experiences that occur in one's life💦💦💦

Ooops, even our pet dog does SAVOR the everyday life but for us, SAVORING would refer to both the past, present and future.  And SAVORING itself can happen from different perspectives, namely:

• SAVORING experiences
• SAVORING processes
• SAVORING responses

Our chronic problem is, we have been so pampered and spoiled in life such that for us, SAVORING is equated for the high-impact events, the high-profile experiences, those 'high moments' after romping off with a major plum, a well-deserved promotion OR even winning the Lotto jackpot.  BUT dude, the probability for those samplings are a drop in the bucket.  99% [or probably 98%] of our daily life is peppered with SMALL MOMENTS, and many of them are SMALL QUIET MOMENTS, like enjoying your everyday early morning walk with your partner/spouse, appreciating the aroma of that hot coffee during breakfast OR even waking up with the sun shining out there, ready to give us the sunlight we need in our health.  BUT for us to develop that SAVORING ability, it is imperative that we are able to connect to the present moment, and seek out the freedom from those urgent responsibilities and acquire that mindfulness and awareness of our positive moments😊😊😊

Our takeaway:  For us to appreciate the need to be SAVORING our everyday life, let us drill down on its obvious benefits starting with positive emotions as it can expand our thoughts and behaviors, promote creativity amongst others.  And studies have proved that it counterbalances the experience of unpleasant emotions in stressful moments.  And predictively, SAVORING has been proven to help increase life's levels of satisfaction, happiness and perceived control.  And conversely, it decreases depressive symptoms while even reducing levels of depression and anxiety and in the end, it relates to higher levels of positive life satisfaction.  All because of SAVORING EVERYDAY LIFE❗❗❗