12/22/2025
Self-Care Seed of the Day #19: Savor the Season 🎁
However you spend the holidays, it’s important to “enrich” the happy experiences.
Happy moments can move in and out of our awareness so quickly if we don’t pause to absorb them.
The trick is to take a moment to savor the joy, love, warmth, sounds, smells, flavors, fun, family and friends.
You can use mindfulness to make the positive feelings a bigger part of your conscious experience thereby "Hardwiring Happiness" into your life one bit at a time.*
👉 Try this:
When you have a positive experience…
1️⃣ Enrich it by focusing your awareness on those feelings for at least 10-20 seconds.
2️⃣ Let the experience fill your awareness and expand to encompass all of you, becoming aware of all five senses.
3️⃣ Imagine that positive feeling absorbing into you and becoming part of you.
4️⃣ Recognize that this positive experience is now a part of who you are that you will take with you wherever you go.
🌟 Set an intention to practice this during happy moments this holiday season to experience them more deeply and make lasting memories as you savor what matters most.
You’ll also be adding to your overall happiness each time you enrich the happy moments and let them become a part of you.
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* See the book “Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence” by Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
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