Coaching practices for Why I Can T Enjoy Things

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• Things that should be enjoyable keep landing flat, and I can’t see why
• When I try to think of something that might lift me out of this, my mind just goes blank
• Right in the middle of a good moment a thought pipes up
• The things I once desperately wanted
• Good things technically happen in my day but none of them land

Practices that may help

1. Identify and reduce your personal savoring killers
   Notice the mental habits that most reliably interrupt your positive experiences and address them specifically.
   Savoring the Moment, Made Practical
2. Build your personal pleasant events inventory
   List every activity that has ever generated even mild pleasure — including things not done in a long time.
   Pleasant Events Scheduling, Made Practical
3. Catching the kill-joy thoughts
   Notice and set aside the thoughts that quietly sabotage your enjoyment.
   Savoring: Getting More From the Good
4. Slow down adaptation with deliberate savoring
   Actively attend to positive experiences in the moment to extract more happiness from what you already have.
   The Hedonic Treadmill, Made Practical
5. Pleasant events calendar: re-sensitizing to everyday positive experience
   Each day for a week, record one pleasant event and notice your sensory, emotional, and cognitive response to it.
   Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Made Practical
6. Connect activities to values, not just pleasure
   Select activities that align with what matters to you, not just what feels good right now.
   Behavioral Activation: Acting Your Way Out of Low Mood
7. Using scarcity or seasonality to heighten appreciation
   Restrict access to something abundant in order to restore its perceived value.
   Mono no Aware: The Pathos of Things
8. Spend on experiences rather than possessions
   Experiences resist adaptation better than objects because they exist as memories that improve over time.
   The Hedonic Treadmill, Made Practical
9. Sharpening perception and blocking distraction
   Heighten one sense and shut out interruptions to intensify a good experience.
   Savoring: Getting More From the Good
10. Mental subtraction (imagine it gone)
    Briefly picture losing what you already have, to restore appreciation for it.
    Premeditatio Malorum, in Depth

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