Savoring: A New Model of Positive Experience
Savoring: A New Model of Positive Experience is a book by Fred Boyd Bryant, Joseph Veroff (2007), published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers. IX Coach's practice library cites it in 15 practices across 12 concepts; each one is listed below, so you can see exactly where this book is put to use.
Where to find it
Practices on IX Coach that cite Savoring
- Linger in positive experiences (savoring)
Slow down and fully attend to positive experiences rather than passing through them — the emotional benefit depends on dwelling time.
Attentional Deployment, Made Practical
- Savoring positive experiences
Slow down and linger in a pleasant experience — letting it register fully rather than rushing through or narrating it away.
Building Positive Emotions, Made Practical
- 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
- Savor existing goods before pursuing more
Deliberately notice and extend the experience of present goods — before hedonic adaptation erases them.
The Mindset of Enough: Contentment Without Complacency
- Savor positive peaks in real time to encode them more strongly
Attention during a positive peak strengthens its memory trace and increases retrospective satisfaction.
The Peak-End Rule — How Memory Distorts Experience
- Training preference toward the present
Deliberately savour what you already own or have, as if it were new.
Santosha: The Practice of Contentment
- Absorb the present — slow down and attend fully
Pause whatever you’re doing and engage all your senses with the experience that is happening right now.
Savoring the Moment, Made Practical
- Sharpen your senses to deepen the experience
Deliberately tune into one sensory channel at a time to get more from a pleasurable experience.
- 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.
- Identify and reduce your personal savoring killers
Notice the mental habits that most reliably interrupt your positive experiences and address them specifically.
- Savoring everyday moments
Deliberately stretch and attend to ordinary good experiences instead of rushing past them.
Slow Living, Made Practical
- 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
- Include a happiness question — not as an outcome goal but as a signal
Add "Did I do my best to be happy today?" to the list — not as a target, but as a daily quality-of-life sensor.
The Morning Questions
- Receive experiential meaning fully — in love, beauty, and truth
Practice fully absorbing the experiences that matter most rather than rushing past them.
Frankl’s Three Sources of Meaning
- Anticipate good experiences in advance — and savor them afterward
A good experience provides happiness three times: in anticipation, during, and in memory.
Time Affluence Practices (Cassie Holmes)
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