{"id":776424,"date":"2026-05-06T04:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/776424\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T04:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:00:19","slug":"feeling-stressed-science-says-nostalgia-can-help-reset-your-brain-homepage-top-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/776424\/","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":3,"featured_media":776425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[318105,210,3810,517,975,22651,318104,318106,67,132,68,17070],"class_list":{"0":"post-776424","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-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-wellbeing"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116525637773287282","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}