Coaching practices for Awe and the Small Self on a Budget
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- When something makes me feel tiny against how huge the world is, my reflex is to flinch and grab back control, like feeling small is a threat to fend off
- My own problems have swollen up to fill my entire world and I can’t see past them
- In the moments something vast cracks me open, I feel this soft pull toward everyone and everything
- I feel small and stuck inside my own head, looping on my own problems, and I want something vast enough
- For a little while right after something takes my breath away, the stuff I’d been stressing about genuinely feels smaller and farther off
Practices that may help
- Awe and the Small Self
Dacher Keltner’s research shows that awe — the response to something vast that exceeds our current frame — reliably produces the "small self": a felt diminishment of individual concerns that is experienced as expansive rather than deflating. This shift reduces self-focused rumination, increases prosocial behavior, and expands the sense of available time. The core effects are well replicated; the neural and downstream health claims are more preliminary. - Courting the small self
Seek experiences that make you feel small in a good way — and notice the relief in it.
Awe Walks, and the Science of Wonder - Deliberately invoke the small-self shift
Seek an encounter with something genuinely vast to let your personal concerns be re-proportioned.
Awe and the Small Self - Use awe to reconnect with something larger than yourself
When awe makes the self feel small, follow the natural impulse toward belonging — toward community, nature, or humanity at large.
Awe and Well-Being, Made Practical - Seek out awe as a broadening and self-transcending emotion
Awe expands perceived time, reduces self-focused thought, and increases prosocial behavior — and it can be deliberately accessed.
Broaden-and-Build, Made Practical - Write from a small-self perspective after awe
After an awe experience, write briefly from the perspective of someone whose personal concerns feel appropriately small.
Awe and Well-Being, Made Practical - Audit your life for access to vastness
Map your environment for how much genuine vastness it contains — and adjust it.
Awe and the Small Self - Micro-awe in the ordinary
Find wonder in small, intricate things when you cannot get to a grand vista.
Awe Walks, and the Science of Wonder - Negotiate the big wins instead of clipping coupons
Spend your energy negotiating rent, salary, and interest rates — not saving $3 on groceries.
Conscious Spending Plan, Made Practical - Use awe to expand your felt sense of time
An awe experience reliably makes time feel more abundant — use it before a rushed, pressured day.
Awe and the Small Self
Related concerns
- Awe And The Small Self
Dacher Keltner’s research shows that awe — the response to something vast that exceeds our current frame — reliably produces the "small self": a felt diminishment of individual concerns that is experienced as expansive rather than deflating. This shift reduces self-focused rumination, increases prosocial behavior, and expands the sense of available time. The core effects are well replicated; the neural and downstream health claims are more preliminary.
- Micro Awe
Find wonder in small, intricate things when you cannot get to a grand vista.
Micro-awe in the ordinary
- Awe And The Small Self Before Bed
Dacher Keltner’s research shows that awe — the response to something vast that exceeds our current frame — reliably produces the "small self": a felt diminishment of individual concerns that is experienced as expansive rather than deflating. This shift reduces self-focused rumination, increases prosocial behavior, and expands the sense of available time. The core effects are well replicated; the neural and downstream health claims are more preliminary.
- Awe And The Small Self For My Teenager
Dacher Keltner’s research shows that awe — the response to something vast that exceeds our current frame — reliably produces the "small self": a felt diminishment of individual concerns that is experienced as expansive rather than deflating. This shift reduces self-focused rumination, increases prosocial behavior, and expands the sense of available time. The core effects are well replicated; the neural and downstream health claims are more preliminary.
- Feeling Small In A Good Way
Seek experiences that make you feel small in a good way — and notice the relief in it.
Courting the small self
- Small Self Awe
Dacher Keltner’s research shows that awe — the response to something vast that exceeds our current frame — reliably produces the "small self": a felt diminishment of individual concerns that is experienced as expansive rather than deflating. This shift reduces self-focused rumination, increases prosocial behavior, and expands the sense of available time. The core effects are well replicated; the neural and downstream health claims are more preliminary.
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