And the activity in your parasympathetic nervous system, which restores the body to a calm state, increases. The activity in your sympathetic nervous system, which is in charge of your stress response, reduces. Mednick, a neuroscientist and professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Irvine. When you savor a happy memory, your brain reacts as if you’re reliving that enjoyable experience all over again, says Sara C. Savoring aims to fill it up with positive emotion. And it’s different from meditating or trying to be mindful, in which the goal is to quiet your mind. It’s not the same as practicing gratitude, which involves thinking about something rather than trying to feel it. When you savor, you try to re-create the positive emotional state of the experience. Savoring differs from other strategies you may use before going to sleep. “It gives your brain something else to focus on-something emotionally compelling and pleasurable," says Dana McMakin, a professor of psychology at Florida International University, who studies savoring. Many of us ruminate as we’re trying to drift off.
Now, psychologists believe it can help us fall asleep and have better sleep quality, and are starting to study its effectiveness. A considerable body of research shows that it can boost mood and help reduce depression and anxiety.
Savoring is well-studied as a strategy to improve our general well-being. They recommend that as we prepare to drift off, we practice something called savoring, which is imagining a positive experience we’ve had in great detail. Now, sleep researchers say that what we think about as we try to go to sleep is just as important.
We know what we’re supposed to do before bed to ensure a good night’s sleep: Set a fixed bedtime.
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