It is important to take time to celebrate.

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To celebrate all the good things in life.

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Such as our achievements, our anniversaries, or our relationships.

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Celebrating them by looking back on them.

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On how they have changed us over the years.

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And what we have gained from them.

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Even the challenges and difficult times can be celebrated.

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The reason celebration is so important is that it comes down to a very practical purpose.

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For it is far easier to remember the negative, trying times that it is to remember the good times.

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We instinctively remember all the pain, anguish, and trouble we've been through so easily.

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Yet it is far harder to remember all the wonderful, beautiful, and happy times we have experienced.

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The mind naturally holds on to the painful moments to protect us.

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To help avoid feeling that pain again.

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So to truly appreciate the joyful, happy moments in our lives takes more effort.

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It takes time and energy to recall and remember those moments when it just felt good to be alive.

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To be with someone we love.

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Or to remind ourselves how it felt when someone actually did something for us out of the goodness of their hearts.

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Sometimes it can feel like there are so few experiences to celebrate in our lives.

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Especially compared to all the difficult times we've been through.

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Yet that is because we have not taken the time to truly focus on those wonderful moments and what they mean to us.

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The amazing thing is that once we do, we find more and more of them.

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As we put our minds and our hearts into recalling the great things that we have lived through, we start to remember more of them.

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For the more we make an effort to recall them the more we can find other joyful moments to remember as well.

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Of course, we will always have challenges and hard times to face.

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There is no need to ignore those.

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Though the time and effort that we put into remembering the truly wonderful moments in life will yield a great benefit for us.

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The more we recall the joy of life the more joy we will experience.

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Even in little things.

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Do you have a hard time recalling the joyful moments in your life?

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What can you do to make more of an effort to remember them?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant

Host of The Conscious Consultant Hour