
Your days are full. You take care of what needs doing, and the good moments still slip by half-noticed: the first sip of coffee, a kind word, the evening light. Life is fine. You'd just like to enjoy more of it. Psychologists call the missing skill savoring: noticing what's good, staying with it a moment longer, and letting it echo through memory and sharing. It's gentle, it's learnable, and it fits into the life you already have. Five short lessons, each with a simple guided practice, with soft piano beneath the teaching. Nothing here asks you to be positive all the time or to feel anything big. Just a little more of you, present for the good while it's here.
Learn the gentle skill of savoring and find more joy in the life you already have.
Your days are full. You take care of what needs doing, and the good moments still slip by half-noticed: the first sip of coffee, a kind word, the evening light. Life is fine. You'd just like to enjoy more of it. Psychologists call the missing skill savoring: noticing what's good, staying with it a moment longer, and letting it echo through memory and sharing. It's gentle, it's learnable, and it fits into the life you already have. Five short lessons, each with a simple guided practice, with soft piano beneath the teaching. Nothing here asks you to be positive all the time or to feel anything big. Just a little more of you, present for the good while it's here.
Mark Stevens is a meditation teacher and EMCC-accredited coach with an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology. He came to this work the long way round, finding his way out of a period of numbness and depression through somatic work and contemplative practice, and then training to share it properly. In Stop Rushing Through Your Life, he brings the science of savoring down to earth, with warmth, a little humour, and simple practices for the middle of an ordinary day.