Coaching practices for Keltner Everyday Awe

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

  • 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

  1. 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
  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 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
  4. Seek out awe
    Regularly expose yourself to vast, complexity-expanding experiences — nature, art, music, ideas — that trigger awe.
    Building Positive Emotions, Made Practical
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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.
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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

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