Do you remember the feeling of eating your favorite food, or that feeling when drinking water at the ideal temperature for you? Well then, these are some typical inducing moments of serotonin. Linked to this, changing the way you do something routine can help you feel it more often. In this way, today we bring this example related to eating popcorn with chopsticks, or hashi, for oriental food lovers.
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Hedonic Adaptation
When we do something over and over again, the sheer force of habit causes it to “fade” for our eyes. That is, the phenomenon known as “hedonic adaptation” occurs when we quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness, as what was once fantastic has now fallen into routine.
However, there is a way to circumvent this phenomenon that happens in our brain. With that, recovering the pleasure felt in your day to day with the simplest things gives you considerable emotional stability, in addition to that it will always be seen as something new for you. See the topic below to understand how to do this.
How to circumvent this perception of the brain?
That's simple! Just do the same old thing, but in a totally different way. Today we are working with the example of popcorn, as this snack will be interpreted in a completely new way when we start eating it with chopsticks typical of oriental food.
Note that this happens easily in our daily lives, when we eat popcorn from packages or from the cinema, which seem much tastier than those made at home, for example. This logic can also be applied to different things in our personal lives, such as living new experiences in the relationship, getting a different haircut than usual or changing the way back home.
How important is it?
We can bring a sense of relevance when we talk about our food, because we don't always want to follow that same diet, but it is necessary for a healthy life. In this way, you can change the preparation of the food or reverse the combination of dishes, and voilà! Our brain interprets it as something new and gets excited about it!
