Coaching practices for The Few Times I've Been Swept Up in Something Huge in a Crowd a Roaring Stadium a Packed Concert Where Everyone Goes Still at Once I Felt This Rush of Belonging I Almost Never Get Otherwise and I Realize I Experience Nearly All My Wonder Alone and I'm Hungry to Feel it Together with People
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For The Few Times I've Been Swept Up in Something Huge in a Crowd a Roaring Stadium a Packed Concert Where Everyone Goes Still at Once I Felt This Rush of Belonging I Almost Never Get Otherwise and I Realize I Experience Nearly All My Wonder Alone and I'm Hungry to Feel it Together with People, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- The few times I’ve been swept up in something huge in a crowd
- In the moments something vast cracks me open, I feel this soft pull toward everyone and everything
- When something strikes me as beautiful I almost always keep it to myself, even with someone right beside me
- I think I’d need a grand vacation or some once-a-year spectacle to feel genuinely moved, so I just don’t
- I’m caught up in my own head almost all the time, and the rare times I really stop and take in a forest or a shoreline, I feel like a small part of something huge and alive
Practices that may help
- 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 - 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 - 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 - Seek out awe
Regularly expose yourself to vast, complexity-expanding experiences — nature, art, music, ideas — that trigger awe.
Building Positive Emotions, Made Practical - Connection to nature and the larger living world
Spend reflective time in nature to feel part of something larger than yourself.
Self-Transcendence: Beyond the Self - Find belonging in nature and the cosmos
When human community feels inaccessible, find the sense of belonging in the natural world you are part of.
Sympatheia — the Stoic Practice of Universal Interconnection - 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 - Engage a self-transcendent purpose
Connect your daily effort to something genuinely beyond yourself — a cause, a person, or a craft.
Peak Experiences and Self-Actualization - Participate in collective rituals and shared activities
Synchronized group activities produce affiliative neural states that individual connection cannot fully replicate.
Tend-and-Befriend, 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
Related concerns
- When Peak Experiences Self Transcendent Activity
Connect your daily effort to something genuinely beyond yourself — a cause, a person, or a craft.
Engage a self-transcendent purpose
- Awe And Social Bonding
Experience something vast alongside others to amplify both the awe and the connection.
Seek awe in collective rituals and shared experience
- Awe And The Small Self With Friends
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 With My Team
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.
- Benefits Of 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.
- 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.
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