Coaching practices for Awe and Well Being Research

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

  • I feel small and stuck inside my own head, looping on my own problems, and I want something vast enough
  • Going through this health scare has shaken loose how I think about my body and how much time I actually have
  • I carry stress in my body constantly
  • I’ve finally accepted that chasing more stuff and more status isn’t making me durably happier, and now I want to pour my time and money into whatever actually does move the needle for good
  • On paper my life looks successful

Practices that may help

  1. Awe and Well-Being, Made Practical
    Awe — the emotion triggered by encountering something vast that challenges your current mental frameworks — reliably reduces self-focused thinking, lowers inflammatory markers in some studies, increases prosocial behavior, and expands the perceived sense of time available. Dacher Keltner’s research shows awe is more accessible than people think and can be deliberately cultivated without waiting for once-in-a-decade peak experiences.
  2. 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
  3. Use benefit-finding specifically for illness-related adversity
    The research on benefit-finding is strongest in the context of medical illness — use these practices during or after health challenges.
    Benefit-Finding in Adversity, Made Practical
  4. Understand awe’s physical dimension
    Regularly experienced awe is associated with lower inflammatory markers — which is worth understanding even if the mechanism is not fully settled.
    Awe and the Small Self
  5. Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical
    Martin Seligman’s PERMA model identifies five pillars of well-being: Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment. Unlike happiness models that treat well-being as a single variable, PERMA argues these five elements are each intrinsically valued and each independently improvable. Several PERMA-targeted interventions have randomized-trial support; others are mechanistically grounded with less direct evidence.
  6. Invest in what research shows moves the set point
    Prioritize relationships, autonomy, and meaning — the three factors most reliably linked to lasting wellbeing gains.
    The Hedonic Treadmill, Made Practical
  7. Audit your life against PERMA
    Check well-being across all five pillars — emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishment.
    Positive Psychology, Made Practical
  8. Positive Psychology, Made Practical
    Martin Seligman’s positive psychology studies what makes life worth living, organized around the PERMA model — Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment. Several of its signature interventions, including three good things, the gratitude visit, and using signature strengths, have genuine randomized-trial support for raising well-being and lowering depressive symptoms.
  9. Design awe walks that amplify the psychological return of outdoor movement
    Walking with intentional attention to vast, novel, or beautiful elements generates awe — which compounds the mood benefits of movement.
    Nature and Movement, Made Practical
  10. Include emotional health as a core healthspan pillar
    Chronic relationship difficulty, unprocessed trauma, and sustained depression shorten healthspan through physiological as well as psychological mechanisms.
    Healthspan vs. Lifespan: Optimizing How Well You Age, Not Just How Long

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