Celebrate small moments, increase well-being and reduce anxiety

Did you know that to reduce anxiety you can not only do relaxing activities, but also celebrate? By celebrating small moments you will put appreciation and gratitude into practice, two essential ingredients to reduce anxiety and stress, increasing your well-being.

Anxiety is a state of tension in the body and mind that is caused by the way we act and think. Often, when anxiety is high, we look for brakes to reduce it, fight it, minimize it. So we use various practices, such as meditation, yoga, among others. These activities give us a break from the hustle and bustle, discomfort and tension. By the way, they can also become good healthy habits.

So, to reduce anxiety and stress there are several ways. On the one hand, it is necessary to find what causes the tension and make the necessary changes. On the other hand, it is good to move the balance of sensations and emotions positively and this is where relaxing activities and celebration come in.

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Celebrate as an ally of well-being

Celebrating, as I tell my clients, is a moment of awareness in which we use two great allies of well-being: gratitude and appreciation. Both are triggers for positive or pleasant emotions.

Gratitude has important favorable implications for health, social relationships, and helps reduce anxiety and stress levels. In the field of positive psychology there are numerous studies that affirm that putting into practice gratitude allows to activate the emotion of gratitude and with it to have a more satisfactory.

The assessment of what is good for you, of your relationships, of what you have, of what you are good at doing, the assessment of small aspects of everyday life... All of it isadd to your quality of life, because it is precisely the satisfaction with life that is the product of the positive evaluation of it.

Remember that valuing, thanking, becoming aware and sharing are essential ingredients for your well-being and happiness.

Celebrating is an act in which we value something that does us good. Celebrating is not necessarily synonymous with celebrating. Likewise, when celebrating is shared, its benefits are doubled, since celebrating and sharing with others adds health and well-being. Hence, toasting is a shared symbolic act that seals a moment that will not only be a source of pleasure at that very moment, but every time you can remember it.

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4 types of celebrations

What are we celebrating? There are innumerable celebrations and festivities associated with each culture, each country and region. From tribes to cities, from prehistory to our times, celebration is part of our lives. We have learned to celebrate some dates, such as Christmas, anniversaries, and also when reaching some achievements, but we forget something important, celebrating small moments.

For this reason I have developed a classification of four types of celebrations:

• Cultural celebrations: these are dates that are celebrated, in general, by your entire community, and they are scheduled for one day each year. For example, Christmas, friend's day, mother's day, father's day, religious and cultural holidays in your community.
• Celebrate your anniversaries. They are the dates that on one day a year you remember something important to you and your loved ones. For example: birthday, wedding anniversary, among others.
• Celebrate achievements. They are dates in which a path culminates, in which you reach a goal. They can be: winning a competition, finishing a race, opening a business, buying your house, etc.
• Celebrate small moments: This is a new category in which only you choose to celebrate by valuing the good in your life. For example, you can honor friendship, love, health, life.

Before we get into the last category, maybe you are thinking: “I'm not a fan of partying”, “I can't be happy to party when I should”, “Planning a party doesn't It's beautiful and it's stressful to the fullest”, “I'm not good at celebrating”, “I can't find important reasons to celebrate". Now tell me yourself: Do you identify with any of these ideas?

Well, if your answer is yes, perhaps you think that celebrating is just fulfilling scheduled obligations, such as cultural celebrations and anniversaries. Also, it can happen that you consider yourself to be or not to be a person to celebrate when this is not about "being" but about generating beautiful moments, and we all have that potential capacity.

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celebrate small moments

Celebrating small moments is a category that I have designed, after researching happiness and well-being and is based on putting appreciation and gratitude into practice in small moments.

This is a celebration that only you choose when and what to celebrate. It allows the celebration not to be limited to those dates marked or thought only for big milestones. We can benefit from celebrating a small moment each week if we follow the steps that I will explain later.. For example, you can meet a friend this week, choose a nice place, and toast saying loud and clear that you toast that day to friendship.

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Two tasks and four guidelines to celebrate small moments

To celebrate You must generate a beautiful moment and for this I recommend two important tasks:

• The first, reflect. Write down all the things you are grateful for and are beautiful in your life. Think about who you are, what you want to be, what you have, and what you do.
• Second, get into action. Start generating your celebrations.

Keys to keep in mind

To generate your celebrations, These guidelines may help:

• What to celebrate Choose a reason to celebrate from your list.
• When: mark in your diary the day and time you will celebrate,
• Where and with whom: choose a nice place, at home or outside. Think about if this celebration will be only you, or better yet, if you will invite another person.
• Celebrate: on the day of the celebration you must do two things. Put into words: “Today I/we celebrate…”. Toast for it by valuing and thanking that moment.

concluding

It is important that celebrating is something chosen by you, pleasant and not something imposed.

As we have seen, celebrating not only adds beautiful moments, but also allows us to put into practice the appreciation and appreciation of countless things in our lives.

Remember, celebrate small moments. You don't need a big party to celebrate a wonderful moment. Celebrating will add well-being and reduce anxiety that subtracts quality of life. Well, now it's your turn to celebrate!