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These quotes work together to display the idea that embracing mindfulness can lead to becoming more aware of the present. By actively participating in mental cleanliness activities such as meditation an individual can work on harnessing their feelings. This concept integrates itself into the main idea of this research inquiry as it through a proper appreciation for the influence we have over our present lives that human beings can see observable benefits.

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Attributive Language: Quinto et. al (2025), at the Department of Human Sciences, European University of Rome, Italy

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Evidence: “the body-based mindfulness program may help individuals to integrate bodily expressions, thoughts, and emotions, keeping an integrated sense of self” (Quinto et. al 2025)

Connection to Claim: This quote is significant because it shows specifically that the program can benefit an individual's everyday lifestyle in the sense that their identity remains cohesive and mentally. This plays with the idea of nostalgia and how the body-based mindfulness program may prevent some of its harms.

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Evidence: “People start to learn how to be more mindful, it’s common and normal to realize how much your mind races and focuses on the past and future.” ( Harrison Wein, 2012)

Connection to Claim: This quote is significant because it highlights how when people become more mindful, they can be aware of how often they focus on the past and future rather than the moment they are in.

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Attributive Language: Crisis and Trauma Institute (2025), gives people information and resources on trauma and training.

Evidence: “A willingness to do what is needed is movement toward accepting their current reality.” (Crisis and Trauma Institute, 2025)

Connection to Claim: This quote is significant because it shows how being willing to do something is a necessary requirement for growth as either you do something or you do not and the effects of this will manifest accordingly.

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Attributive Language: Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah (2012), an author who won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2018.

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Evidence: “I realized that my grandmother must have known people who had been enslaved, and that those people knew what it meant to be owned by another human being, and later found a way to believe in God, in music, in laughter.”

(Ghansah, R. K.)

Connection to Claim: This quote is significant because it showed how when people face hardships and struggles find a way to believe in something that creates a sense of belonging and happiness that can be nostalgic for future generations.

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Attributive Language: Johan Norberg (2022), a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.

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Evidence: “On an almost 4,000-year-old clay tablet, Kramer found the story of

Enmerkar and the land of Aratta, an expression of the idea that there was once a golden

age of peace and security, and that we had since fallen from this blessed state:” (Norberg, J. 2022)

Connection to Claim: This quote is significant because this shows how many people, even from thousands of years ago, think life was better and more comfortable in the past. This gives a historical and cultural lens to my research.

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These quotes work together to highlight how people use nostalgia to face the reality of the present. They provide examples of how looking back on the past comforts and gives hope to the reality of people's current situations. However, creating coping mechanisms can be as harmful as it is positive. Mentally constructed solutions to problems are subject to volatility. Moving forward, this evidence ultimately connects to how people are consumed by the past even though it could be inaccurate and live their lives reminiscing in order to avoid the struggles of the present.

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The quotes provided illustrate the importance of focusing on the present. For example, the notion that old people will hyper fixate on their youth as an escape method rather than potentially addressing genuine health concerns is alarming. It is typically better for people to accept the things in their past and to learn from them, rather than to obsess over them. This ties back to the main idea as it cements the notion that the present is ultimately where improvement can be had. Growth and personal development does not come from fondness towards recollection but rather active work in current reality.

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Attributive Language: Micheal J Wohl (2023),from the Department of Psychology in Carleton University in Ontario Canada.

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Evidence: “it may behove treatment providers to help their client contrast their current unhealthy behavior with a healthier, positive past. ” (Michael J. A. Wohl1 et. all)

Connection to Claim: This quote is significant because it shows how even though nostalgia has some benefits when using it for treatment in patients who are trying to correct their past bad behavior, it can push the clients to want to relapse and go back to the bad behavior that made them feel happy.

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Attributive Language: University of Florida (2025), containing expert faculty and accomplished graduates whose mission is to improve the health, independence and quality of life of older adults.

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Evidence: “When we become too attached to certain memories, it can be hard to embrace the present, leaving us stagnant in certain areas of our lives.” (University Of Florida)

Connection to Claim: This quote is significant because it describes how when people experience nostalgia, they are so focused on what happened in their past that it is hard for them to fully live in the present.

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Attributive Language: Taylor A FloRito (2020), at the Department of Psychology at the North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND.

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Evidence: “as people get older, nostalgia makes them feel youthful and more optimistic about their health” (FioRito,2020)

Connection to Claim: This quote is significant because it reinforces the main theme of the paper as nostalgia is shown to be future oriented. This quote highlights the idea that while nostalgia may make one focus on things that are no longer around such as being young or healthy, the thought of things that are good by themselves is enough for people to feel good about their future.

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Attributive Language: University of Florida (2025), containing expert faculty and accomplished graduates whose mission is to improve the health, independence and quality of life of older adults.

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Evidence: “nostalgia evolves into a useful coping mechanism for managing life’s pressures,” (University Of Florida)

Connection to Claim: This quote is significant because this supports the article's claim on how nostalgia is used in someone's daily life in order to bring a sense of comfort to someone's reality. (University Of Florida, 2022)

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Attributive Language: Micheal J Wohl (2023),from the Department of Psychology in Carleton University in Ontario Canada.

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Evidence: “When I think about smoking it brings back happy times with my friends and a sense of freedom. I miss my life when I was a smoker ” (Michael J. A. Wohl1 et. all)

Connection to Claim: This quote is significant because it explained how a participant experienced nostalgia that included positive situations however unhealthy behaviors. These participants would remember the good times even though in reality their actions weren't as good as remembered and even harmful to them.

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The source Reality Acceptance connects with the source Mindfulness Matters. In the source Reality Acceptance highlights how in order to accept the present reality, a person must be willing to move forward. This connects with the source Mindfulness Matters because this article also describes how when people start to become mindful they can realize how much they were focusing on the past and present.

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The source Mindfulness Matters connects with the source Effects of a Body-Based Mindfulness. In the article Mindfulness Matters it discusses how when people start to become more mindful, they are able to identify how they were hyper focusing on the past more than living in the moment. Similarly the article Body-Based Mindfulness it highlights the importance of keeping a unified awareness of who they are and their current identity. These sources work together to show how embracing mindfulness can help people move forward and accept their present.

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The source, The Psychology Of Nostalgia connects to the source Is Nostalgia a Past or Future-Oriented Experience. In the article The Psychology Of Nostalgia discusses how people can become attached to memories and can leave people motionless in their current lives. This idea can be shared in the article, Is Nostalgia a Past or Future-Oriented Experience. This text highlights how older people tend to experience nostalgia in order to make them feel optimistic about their current state and health.

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Nostalgia fabricates a sense of comfort into a persons current state.

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Nostalgia when focused on too immensely creates a complication to embrace the present. Nostalgia is often used to create a state of comfort in order to bare a strenuous or stagnant present.

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Over emphasis on past glory leads towards failing to accept the present as individuals who are guilty of this behavior fixate on previous experiences while remaining ignorant to the notion that these experiences are irrevocable. The present is where energy should be diverted as it is changeable, not the past which is static.

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1.  This is important because people may live their lives overly focused on the past which can hinder them from living fully in the present. This is important because the present is something that we can directly control whereas the same cannot be said for the past.

2. Ultimately, reliance on one's past is damaging because memory and by extension nostalgia is often fleeting and false. Furthermore, nostalgia can prevent an individual from moving forward in that it can fabricate a harmful sense of complacency. Therefore, it is by positively embracing one's present mindfulness that leads individuals towards forming a better connection with reality.

3.  Overall, the present is where energy should be diverted as it is changeable, not the past which is static.

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The source Cognitive Bias works together with the source The Utility of Nostalgia. The cognitive bias examines how people often are biased and how this can lead to a misinterpretation of past experiences. Also the source The Utility of Nostalgia focuses on a certain group of participants who experienced unhealthy behaviors and when reflecting on the past, often focus on only the positive aspects that came with the unhealthy behavior. These sources connect by addressing a common attribute that people have and how it can be seen within people today.

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People often struggle to face their current reality and look to finding comfort in the past, however by focusing on being more mindful, they can focus on their present instead of the false reality of the past.

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When someone remembers an experience or event with bias and false interpenetration, it can lead to someone trying to achieve an attainable and unrealistic future.

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The source, The Psychology Of Nostalgia connects with the source False Nostalgia. In the article The Psychology of Nostalgia describes how nostalgia can be used as a coping mechanism for affliction in the present. Moreover the article False Nostolgia provides an example of how people 4,000 years shared the same proposition that looking back on the past gave them a sense of comfort and hope for the future.

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The source My Mothers House connects with the article The Psychology Of Nostalgia. My Mothers House is a narrative that describes a daughter who longed to figure out her family's full history and proceeds to explore her mothers old house and the history surrounding it. The narrator discovers her family using God, music and laughter in order to get through difficult times. Even though the narrator didn't live the in the same period her ancestors did, she used their Nostalgia to get through her discontentment in the present. This connects to the article The Psychology of Nostalgia by demonstrating how nostalgia brings comfort the people who are suffering with accepting their present reality.

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The source,The Psychology Of Nostalgia connects to the source The Utility Of Nostalgia. In the article The Psychology Of Nostalgia it discusses how people who experience nostalgia focus on experiences of the past and struggle to fully live in the present moment. Similarly the research done by The Utility Of Nostalgia highlights in a study of people with unhealthy behavior, when using nostalgia for correcting past behavior can relapse back to bad behavior because they focus only on the benefits and comforts that came with it. Both of these sources work together to support the idea that nostalgia can hinder a person's ability to move forward.

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The above evidence strengthens the notion that people do not hold accurate retellings of their memory. For example, the person who used to smoke sees smoking as a happy period in their life despite the obvious harmful effects of such an activity. Furthermore, the overall claim that nostalgia is unreliable highlights the importance of focusing on the present. This is because while the past is subject to false recollection, the same cannot be said for the present in that it happens "in the now." This further illustrates the value of the present over the past, as that which can be changed will hold significant weight over that which cannot.

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The source ,The Negative Affects of Nostalgia and Loneliness connects with the source Cognitive Bias. In The Negative Affects of Nostalgia and Loneliness, they discuss how people often recall experiences with bias and inaccurate details. Similarly, Cognitive bias highlights how people unconsciously have cognitive bias that affects the way the mind views a situation. Both of these sources connect by highlighting the issue of people failing to accurate remember past situations.

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How does over emphasis on the past lead to failing to accept the present?

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Attributive Language: Encyclopedia Britannica (2025), the oldest continuously published, general-knowledge English-language encyclopedia.

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Evidence: “One common heuristic that the human brain uses is cognitive stereotyping. This is the process of assigning things to categories and then using those categories to fill in missing information about the thing in question, often unconsciously." (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Connection to Claim: This quote is significant because it discusses how stereotyping is a part of cognitive bias and can often lead to overlooking the reality of a situation because the mind is only viewing the situation from a biased perception unconsciously.

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Attributive Language: David B Newman, et al. (2020) from the Psychiatry Department at the University of California in San Francisco.

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Evidence: “asking participants to reflect on their most nostalgic experience at one time requires participants to rely on extensive recall, which are often are fraught with biases and heuristics” Newman, 2020)

Connection to Claim: This quote is significant because it supports the idea that people often look back on nostalgic experiences and have an incorrect view on what actually happened. This shows how people are biased and only perceive what they want to remember about the situation.

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Embracing mindfulness can lead to a better connection with present reality.

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Focusing on past glory can hinder a person from moving forward.

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(2-3 sources)  SITUATE your investigation of the complexities of the issue.  Present why this issue/problem is worth investigating, and begin to focus this issue to set up for your main idea.

Nostalgia is a sentimental longing for the past and often is recalled falsely and with bias. (1) This can lead to issues moving forward because a person can be stuck on the false reality of the past and try to reach a similarly unattainable reality in the future. (2) This issue is worth investigating because it can lead to many wrapped perceptions of attaining a healthier lifestyle. A way the false glory of the past is seen today is with people engaged with unhealthy behavior. Often using nostalgia to reflect on the past can push people to want to relapse and go back to the bad behavior that made them feel happy although it was in reality harming them. (2) Focusing on this issue and finding ways to combat this style of thinking by embracing mindfulness can overall improve the well being of many peoples lives. (3)

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Nostalgia is often remembered falsey