Coaching practices for Awe Inducing Content
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I can’t exactly hop on a plane to see the northern lights, but I’m stuck at home most nights half-watching something while scrolling my phone
- My weeks have flattened into screens and errands, and I can’t remember the last time something genuinely beautiful or masterful stopped me in my tracks
- My weeks have gone grey and going-through-the-motions, and what I miss most is that warm, chest-swelling pull I get watching someone pour themselves into something with real heart
- When someone I love is excited about something, I want to actually light up with them and draw it out instead of just saying “nice” and moving on
- I feel small and stuck inside my own head, looping on my own problems, and I want something vast enough
Practices that may help
- Use documentary and large-scale art to trigger awe
Watch content that conveys genuine vastness — deep space, ecosystems, historical scale — with full attention rather than as background.
Awe and Well-Being, Made Practical - Seek direct contact with beauty, truth, or excellence
Deliberately expose yourself to things of genuine quality — great music, masterful work, natural beauty.
Peak Experiences and Self-Actualization - Attend to moral beauty as an everyday awe source
Notice and dwell on acts of extraordinary virtue, skill, or dedication — a common awe trigger that most people overlook.
Awe and Well-Being, Made Practical - Respond active-constructively
Meet good news with genuine, engaged enthusiasm — ask questions and savor it together.
Active-Constructive Responding, 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 - The Mindset of Enough: Contentment Without Complacency
The "mindset of enough" is the capacity to experience genuine satisfaction with what is present without that satisfaction shutting down ambition — a distinction between sufficiency and settling. Research on hedonic adaptation, satisficing, and relative comparison suggests that the common success formula (more → better) reliably produces diminishing returns in well-being, and that contentment practices can interrupt that cycle without requiring you to abandon your goals. - Vividly imagine the best outcome of achieving your wish
Spend 2–3 minutes imagining in full sensory detail how it will feel when the wish is fulfilled.
Mental Contrasting and WOOP - Seek out awe
Regularly expose yourself to vast, complexity-expanding experiences — nature, art, music, ideas — that trigger awe.
Building Positive Emotions, Made Practical - The Wim Hof breathing technique
Rounds of deep cyclic breathing followed by a breath retention on the exhale.
The Wim Hof Method, Honestly Assessed - 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.
Related concerns
- Collective Awe
Experience something vast alongside others to amplify both the awe and the connection.
Seek awe in collective rituals and shared experience
- Collective Identity Awe
Experience something vast alongside others to amplify both the awe and the connection.
- Awe Experience Wellbeing
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.
- Dacher Keltner Awe
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.
- Goosebumps Awe
Notice when you get goosebumps — it is your body marking something as genuinely vast.
Use goosebumps as a guide to genuine awe
- How Awe Expands Time
An awe experience reliably makes time feel more abundant — use it before a rushed, pressured day.
Use awe to expand your felt sense of time
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