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The document discusses various concepts and techniques related to savoring. It describes conditions that enable savoring, such as experiences being complex enough to fully engage the senses but not too complex. It then outlines several techniques for savoring positive experiences, including sharing with others, memory building, self-congratulation, sensory focusing, comparisons, absorption, behavioral expression, temporal awareness, counting blessings, and avoiding "kill joy" thinking.

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Savoring

The document discusses various concepts and techniques related to savoring. It describes conditions that enable savoring, such as experiences being complex enough to fully engage the senses but not too complex. It then outlines several techniques for savoring positive experiences, including sharing with others, memory building, self-congratulation, sensory focusing, comparisons, absorption, behavioral expression, temporal awareness, counting blessings, and avoiding "kill joy" thinking.

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SAVORING

CONCEPTS, TECHNIQUES AND ASSESSMENTS


CONDITIONS OF SAVORING

• If the source of savoring Is too simple, savoring will dissipate. If its too complex and
requires use of multiple senses, the focus will switch before savoring dissipates.
• The experience of savoring is intense, prolonged and better after experiencing stress.
When you are experiencing stress, there is a physiological tension throughout your body.
This explains why having a shower after tough day is so amazing because it relaxes your
body and mind.
TECHNIQUES FOR SAVORING

• SHARING WITH OTHERS


• Watching a close one enjoy themselves make the whole moment very enjoyable.
• When others are there, they may point out different positive aspects of the experience you may be
missing out on.
• People become excited and anticipate how their close ones would react to good moments you’d like to
share. Sharing those moments may give you a chance to notice details that you otherwise would miss.
• In the presence of others, we tend to be more spontaneous, expressive and creative which adds to the
joy.
SHARING WITH OTHERS

• Sharing with others is often contagious because you tend to shift your focus from self to
how others are responding, hence increases ability to become completely absorbed.
• MEMORY BUILDING
• Active memory building is a type of savoring ,discreetly noticing and capturing the most
positive moments of an enjoyable experience that could be shared with others later on.
• It requires forming clear and vivid memories of those positive moments and reminiscing
about them with others.
TECHNIQUES FOR SAVORING (CONTINUED….)

• SELF CONGRATULATION: Telling oneself how long you have waited for this moment
to arrive, feeling proud of having achieved a difficult task etc.
• SENSORY PERCEPTUAL SHARPENING: A type of savoring that focuses on
intensifying pleasure by focusing on one particular aspect of a positive experience,
blocking out others as a way to sharpen one’s senses through concentration)
• Eg. While listening to the music, you close your eyes to bask in the pleasure of music,
While eating your favourite dessert you close your eyes to completely enjoy the taste.
TECHNIQUES OF SAVORING

• COMPARISONS: Comparing your experiences with others, of what you experienced in the
past or with what one imagined the event would be like.
• Upward social eg. I am doing better than him.
• Temporal Comparisons eg. I am doing better than last week.
• Counterfactual. Eg. I could have been worse
• ABSORPTION: A type of savoring of complete mindful immersion without reflecting,
introspecting or making mental associations with other experiences. Its mindful engagement
in present moment.
OTHER TECHNIQUES OF SAVORING

• BEHAVIORAL EXPRESSION: Outward manifestation of inner feelings eg, jumping out


of excitement, dancing out of love, kissing because feeling loved etc.
• Research on self perception theory and facial feedback hypothesis confirm that outwardly
showing what you are experiencing tends to intensifies the feelings experienced.
• TEMPORAL AWARENESS: Conscious awareness of the passage of time while savoring
in a moment. Two types: Exact attention to how time is passing. One wishes if the
moment could last, this bittersweet experience is positive and leads to realization of living
in the moment thoroughly.
TECHNIQUES OF SAVORING

• COUNTING BLESSINGS: Reminding oneself how proud or lucky one is. Point out what
one is grateful for, identify its source and associate gratitude with it.
• KILL JOY THINKING: A type of cognitive style that reduces savoring. Consists of
“Should’s”, particular of depressive thinking or people with low self esteem often engage
in “kill joy” thinking.

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