Looking to calm down or give your brain a break?<\/p>\n
The key to doing so can be found in memories from your past.<\/p>\n
From old music to familiar smells, there is some science behind the nostalgic reset.<\/p>\n
All of the videos have something in common. Music playing that takes you back in time.<\/p>\n
A nostalgic reset is a real thing, and the reason it works is because that feeling typically draws on positive memories of the past.<\/p>\n
Those feelings then enhance our present feelings.<\/p>\n
A cognitive scientist says the nostalgic reset reminds us that we exist within a continuous life story and that things can be better in the future because they have been better in the past.<\/p>\n
You intentionally consume things as a way to calm your nervous system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looking to calm down or give your brain a break? The key to doing so can be found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[195789,102,3562,1906,6623,128,2802,195788,195790,56,54,55,4874],"class_list":["post-572201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-emotional-regulation","tag-health","tag-memory","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-music","tag-nostalgia","tag-nostalgic-reset","tag-positive-memories","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wellbeing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}