Coaching practices for Perspective Shift After Awe
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- For a little while right after something takes my breath away, the stuff I’d been stressing about genuinely feels smaller and farther off
- I feel small and stuck inside my own head, looping on my own problems, and I want something vast enough
- I think I’d need a grand vacation or some once-a-year spectacle to feel genuinely moved, so I just don’t
- On the rare clear night I glance up and for a second the sheer depth of all those stars hits me
- 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
Practices that may help
- Write from a small-self perspective after awe
After an awe experience, write briefly from the perspective of someone whose personal concerns feel appropriately small.
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 - Seek out awe
Regularly expose yourself to vast, complexity-expanding experiences — nature, art, music, ideas — that trigger awe.
Building Positive Emotions, Made Practical - 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 - 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. - 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 - Deliberately invoke the small-self shift
Seek an encounter with something genuinely vast to let your personal concerns be re-proportioned.
Awe and the Small Self - 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 - Courting the small self
Seek experiences that make you feel small in a good way — and notice the relief in it.
Awe Walks, and the Science of Wonder - Use awe to reconnect with something larger than yourself
When awe makes the self feel small, follow the natural impulse toward belonging — toward community, nature, or humanity at large.
Awe and Well-Being, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Awe And Vastness
Awe expands perceived time, reduces self-focused thought, and increases prosocial behavior — and it can be deliberately accessed.
Seek out awe as a broadening and self-transcending emotion
- Awe And The Small Self
Dacher Keltner’s research shows that awe — the response to something vast that exceeds our current frame — reliably produces the "small self": a felt diminishment of individual concerns that is experienced as expansive rather than deflating. This shift reduces self-focused rumination, increases prosocial behavior, and expands the sense of available time. The core effects are well replicated; the neural and downstream health claims are more preliminary.
- Awe And The Small Self On A Budget
Dacher Keltner’s research shows that awe — the response to something vast that exceeds our current frame — reliably produces the "small self": a felt diminishment of individual concerns that is experienced as expansive rather than deflating. This shift reduces self-focused rumination, increases prosocial behavior, and expands the sense of available time. The core effects are well replicated; the neural and downstream health claims are more preliminary.
- Collective Awe
Experience something vast alongside others to amplify both the awe and the connection.
Seek awe in collective rituals and shared experience
- Documentary Awe
Watch content that conveys genuine vastness — deep space, ecosystems, historical scale — with full attention rather than as background.
Use documentary and large-scale art to trigger 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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