Coaching practices for Every So Often We Get it Right I Reach for Them and They Actually Meet Me and it Feels So Good but Then it Just Slides by and We're Back to Normal and I Want Those Good Moments to Actually Count for Something Instead of Evaporating
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- Every so often we get it right
- A good moment is right here in front of me and I’m already half onto the next thing
- Good moments rush past me before I’ve even taken them in
- The good moments slide right past me
- The good moments slip past me — a meal, my kid at this age, a season of life — and I only really feel them once they’re gone.
Practices that may help
- Celebrate and reinforce moments of secure connection
When you get it right -- when you reach and are met -- name it and savour it.
Hold Me Tight: Sue Johnson's Seven Conversations for Lasting Love - Savoring the present moment
When something good is happening, deliberately slow down and soak in the sensory detail.
Savoring: Getting More From the Good - Savoring positive experiences
Deliberately prolong and deepen good moments instead of letting them slip past.
Positive Psychology, Made Practical - The impermanence gratitude turn
Use the awareness that pleasant things are temporary to intensify genuine appreciation for them while they are here.
Anicca: Working Practically with Impermanence - Impermanence awareness practice
Deliberately notice the transience of a good experience to deepen your engagement with it while it’s here.
Wabi-Sabi: Finding Beauty in Imperfection - Integrate what peak experiences reveal
Write immediately after a peak experience to preserve and act on the clarity it gave you.
Peak Experiences and Self-Actualization - The last-time awareness practice
Periodically notice when you might be doing something for the last time — and let that awareness deepen your engagement.
Mono no Aware: The Pathos of Things - Revisit positive memories to relive them deliberately
Spend time replaying a genuinely good memory in detail — retrospective savoring extends the well-being benefit long after the event.
Savoring the Moment, Made Practical - Make capitalization a habit
Treat your partner’s good news as a recurring opportunity to build the relationship.
Active-Constructive Responding, Made Practical - Reminiscence and savoring memories
Deliberately revisit good memories — with cues — to re-experience the positive feeling.
Savoring: Getting More From the Good
Related concerns
- Dwelling In Good Moments
Deliberately prolong and deepen good moments instead of letting them slip past.
Savoring positive experiences
- How To Make Good Moments Last
Deliberately prolong and deepen good moments instead of letting them slip past.
- When Elevation Emotion Elevation Journaling
Record moments of moral beauty you witness — in others and in yourself — to train your attention toward virtue.
Keep an elevation journal
- When Wabi Sabi Impermanence Awareness
Deliberately notice the transience of a good experience to deepen your engagement with it while it’s here.
Impermanence awareness practice
- Aha Moment
When something good is happening, deliberately slow down and soak in the sensory detail.
Savoring the present moment
- Appreciate Before It Ends
Use the awareness that pleasant things are temporary to intensify genuine appreciation for them while they are here.
The impermanence gratitude turn
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