
94: The Science of Savoring
Time and Attention
What Does It Have to Do With Anxiety?
The more we savor an experience in the here and now, we actually activate a network in our brain that is referred to colloquially as the Here and Now network. It's anti-correlated with networks that support us when our brain is either stimulated or anxious. So it's a very simple idea but there's this complex series of responses that happen in our brain in response to a situation where we save or something. We all need to strike between striving for more and savoring the fruits of our striving. And because of the self-reinforcing addictive nature of striving,.
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