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This week I’ve been thinking about how we tend to dismiss the positive and hold the negative. It’s called a negative bias. We remember criticism more than praise. We even notice strong emotions when they arise but not when they abate.
In the current state of the world, but also generally, it’s essential to take time to hold the positive. To permit ourselves to be happy, joyful, delighted, grateful. It’s crucial for creativity—it’s more challenging to be creative when we’re stressed.
So, today, I invite you to write about a positive moment. It doesn’t have to be a moment of total bliss. In fact, the more mundane, the better. That time when someone held the door for you. That time when a friend hugged you just when you needed it. The moment of quiet you’ve been longing for at the end of the day.
Let’s hold this moment. Do you remember how it felt? Try to re-live the moment: what can you hear? What can you smell? Where is that good feeling located physically? What colour does it have?
Give yourself permission to hold this moment. Take time with it. Enjoy it.
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