January 7, 2024

Il mio luce preferita ✨

Training yourself to see and appreciate beauty everywhere changes your brain (slowly but surely) and literally wires you to feel more pleasure.

I was reading this study on the internet (as we do these days). And I didn’t bookmark it or save it (also, as we do). And instead I just screenshot this part and I love it so much so here it is:

“when people are exposed to beautiful art or music there’s activity in a region of the brain called the medial orbitofrontal cortex, which plays a role in our feelings of reward and pleasure”

It’s one of those things that feels obvious and yet, how often do we ignore the world around us, absorbed in our own thoughts, absorbed in our phones, not paying attention?

Here’s the reminder: seeing beautiful things is literally stimulating to our pleasure and reward centers.

And who doesn’t want more pleasure? More presence? Orient yourself to see and find beauty everywhere. And watch as it slowly, slowly changes your life ✨🫶