Coaching practices for Awe Emotion Wellbeing

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

• When a big emotion hits, it becomes the whole world
• Something big happened and I feel two opposite things at once
• A feeling slams into me and I have no idea where it came from or why it’s this big
• When a big feeling crashes over me it’s like I become it
• I can analyze my feelings all day long, but it stays in my head and never actually moves through me

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. Recognize aware presence within strong emotion
   When a strong emotion arises, shift to noticing the awareness in which the emotion appears rather than being swept by it.
   Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical
3. The Feeling Wheel: Building Emotional Vocabulary
   The Feeling Wheel, developed by counselor Gloria Willcox in 1982, is a visual tool that organizes emotions in concentric rings from six core emotions (glad, mad, sad, scared, disgusted, powerful) outward to increasingly specific nuanced feelings. It helps people name their emotional experience more precisely — a capacity research calls emotional granularity — which is associated with better emotional regulation and reduced distress.
4. Notice and name mixed or contradictory emotions simultaneously
   When something significant happens, look for two or more emotions that coexist — even contradictory ones.
   The Feeling Wheel: Building Emotional Vocabulary
5. Understand the function of the emotion
   Every emotion evolved because it does something useful — learn what yours is trying to do.
   DBT Emotion Regulation Skills, Made Practical
6. Mindfulness of the current emotion
   Observe the emotion as a wave passing through — without judging it, feeding it, or running from it.
   DBT Emotion Regulation Skills, Made Practical
7. Locate the emotion in the body as well as naming it
   After naming an emotion on the Feeling Wheel, find where it lives in the body.
   The Feeling Wheel: Building Emotional Vocabulary
8. Name the emotion accurately
   Use precise emotion words — not just "fine" or "stressed" — to be honest with yourself about what you actually feel.
   Radical Honesty About Emotions, Made Practical
9. Expand your feelings vocabulary
   Deliberately learn and use a wider range of emotion words than "good" and "bad".
   Emotional Granularity: Precision as a Regulation Skill
10. Seek out awe
    Regularly expose yourself to vast, complexity-expanding experiences — nature, art, music, ideas — that trigger awe.
    Building Positive Emotions, Made Practical

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