Coaching practices for How to Experience Awe

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• I think I’d need a grand vacation or some once-a-year spectacle to feel genuinely moved, so I just don’t
• I keep thinking wonder is something that only happens at a mountain or a grand canyon, so I save it for some trip I never take
• When something strikes me as beautiful I almost always keep it to myself, even with someone right beside me
• 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
• I walk every day but it’s either head-down exercise or me chewing on my problems the whole way, and I get back having noticed nothing

Practices that may help

1. Seek out awe
   Regularly expose yourself to vast, complexity-expanding experiences — nature, art, music, ideas — that trigger awe.
   Building Positive Emotions, Made Practical
2. 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
3. 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.
4. Sharing awe with others
   Experience and talk about wonder together to deepen both the awe and the bond.
   Awe Walks, and the Science of Wonder
5. Awe Walks, and the Science of Wonder
   An awe walk is an ordinary walk taken with attention deliberately turned outward toward things vast or wondrous — sky, scale, intricacy, beauty. Doing so reliably shrinks self-focus and lifts mood in controlled studies; the effects are real but modest and depend on actually directing attention outward rather than walking lost in thought.
6. 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
7. The awe walk
   Take a regular walk with attention deliberately turned outward toward the vast and the wondrous.
   Awe Walks, and the Science of Wonder
8. Stargazing and the vastness of scale
   Look up at a dark night sky and let the sheer scale do the work.
   Awe Walks, and the Science of Wonder
9. Build a personal catalog of micro-awe triggers
   Identify the small, reliable stimuli in your everyday environment that reliably produce a mild sense of wonder — and use them deliberately.
   Awe and Well-Being, Made Practical
10. 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

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