For Awe Highlights—Best of 2023
For Awe, our publication on Medium is celebrating the Best of 2023! Read. Be inspired to add more awe to your life in 2024. Join our For Awe Community!
Awe Practices
After The Rain
An Awe Walk The world glows fresh and new after the rain. There are still more to come. And, more to explore. Thanks for reading! I hope everyone enjoys an awe walk — after a rain sprinkle, shower, or storm is a great time! Science suggests there are many benefits from writing and sharing experiences of feeling awe. …
Nelson Mandela: The Environmentalist Side of This Great Leader
Giving flowers in gratitude and celebration of a morally beautiful life Every year, on July 18th, the birthday of the great Nelson Mandela, the world celebrates Nelson Mandela International Day. In his 95 years, he lived many lifetimes of accomplishment for the greater good of humanity. He is best known for his human rights work, peacefully …
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Finding Awe Everywhere
Even when we least expect it, look for it anyway The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. ― W.B. Yeats Awe is a natural mood booster. If that is a new concept for you, read more about that here. If not, let’s explore ways we can sharpen our senses …
Awe From Videos
Awe practice The photo above reminds me of a magical moment drifting through Lake Huron on a not-so-common, no-sweatshirt-needed, summer evening. The setting sun spilled sparkling gemstones across the water. They seemed to be dancing toward me. Each golden gem glimmered and bounced with its own unique cadence over each ripple — all the ingredients for a …
Awe Is Here — Let The Best Ever New Year Begin!
Released Today: Awe, by Dacher Keltner The new year didn’t start off with a bang for me this year. I was waiting for January 3rd to get it started. I was waiting for the arrival of Dacher Keltner’s new book: Awe! Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is …
Awe From Nature: Experiences and Observations
What moments of awe have you experienced from nature? When study participants were prompted to actively “seek awe,” they seemed to create a self-fulfilling prophecy and actually had more “wow!” moments than a control group that wasn’t instructed to be on the lookout for nature-based stimuli that elicited awe. Virginia Sturm, Dacher Keltner, and their co-authors reported in Psychology Today. …
Want The Very Best Gift Ever? Here It Is: Awe
Learn about awe. Experience More Awe. Live a Better Life. Give the gift of awe to yourself and to everyone that you love. Little moments of awe – 5 minutes. It is hard to find something that is as good for your body as that .-Dacher Keltner Check out these awemazing books. Click on the …
Pay More Attention
You might be surprised at what you are missing It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.—Albert Einstein I got up early to write. I realized I was almost late. I felt a little cheated that I had to stop. In my rush, I forgot about the …
Awe from Music
Which musicians and music have left you in awe? The sound of the human voice, the pulsing of drums, a rhythmic melody — these have been staples of the human experience since the days of our earliest ancestors, and having long been sources of awe for both the listener and creator of music.— Jonah Paquette, …