{"id":945617,"date":"2026-05-08T07:55:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945617\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:55:47","slug":"feeling-stressed-science-says-nostalgia-can-help-reset-your-brain-homepage-top-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/945617\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling stressed? Science says nostalgia can help reset your brain | Homepage Top Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking to calm down or give your brain a break?<\/p>\n<p>The key to doing so can be found in memories from your past.<\/p>\n<p>From old music to familiar smells, there is some science behind the nostalgic reset.<\/p>\n<p>All of the videos have something in common. Music playing that takes you back in time.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Those feelings then enhance our present feelings.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[39105,105,2761,218,269,8838,263970,263971,16,15,4950],"class_list":{"0":"post-945617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-emotional-regulation","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-memory","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-nostalgia","14":"tag-nostalgic-reset","15":"tag-positive-memories","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wellbeing"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116537886570294030","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}