Coaching practices for Keltner Everyday Awe
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- I half-believe I’m just not a wonder person because I never get anywhere grand, but every so often a song or a turn of phrase or the light hitting something just right genuinely stops me
- I feel small and stuck inside my own head, looping on my own problems, and I want something vast enough
- I wake up already behind, staring down a day so packed there’s clearly not enough hours in it, and I dive straight into the list feeling like time is running out
- I think I’d need a grand vacation or some once-a-year spectacle to feel genuinely moved, so I just don’t
- I get this sudden lump in my throat when I see someone be quietly, extraordinarily good
Practices that may help
- 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 - 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 - 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 - Seek out awe
Regularly expose yourself to vast, complexity-expanding experiences — nature, art, music, ideas — that trigger awe.
Building Positive Emotions, Made Practical - Seek moral beauty as a source of awe
Let acts of extraordinary courage, kindness, or virtue stop you the way a mountain does.
Awe and the Small Self - Seek awe in collective rituals and shared experience
Experience something vast alongside others to amplify both the awe and the connection.
Awe and the Small Self - 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. - 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 - 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 - 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
Related concerns
- 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.
- Everyday Awe
Take a regular walk with attention deliberately turned outward toward the vast and the wondrous.
The awe walk
- Personal Awe Triggers
Notice and dwell on acts of extraordinary virtue, skill, or dedication — a common awe trigger that most people overlook.
Attend to moral beauty as an everyday awe source
- Benefits Of Experiencing 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.
- 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.
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