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Awe & happiness

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Why Do We Feel Awe?

According to Dacher Keltner, there are important evolutionary reasons: It’s good for our minds, bodies, and social connections.

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Dacher Keltner
2016
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Awe Makes Us Happier, Healthier and Humbler

We think of awe as an emotion reserved for the most extraordinary moments—summiting a mountain, the birth of a child, an exquisite live performance. But researchers who study awe say the emotion shouldn’t be associated only with rare events.

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Alia E. Dastagir
2021
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Nurtured by Nature

Psychological research is advancing our understanding of how time in nature can improve our mental health and sharpen our cognition.

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Kirsten Weir
2020
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FindCenterThere is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

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C. S. Lewis
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Do You Want To Slow Down?

Anna Sale, host of Death, Sex, and Money, practices awe as an antidote to her anxiety.

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The Science of Happiness
2021
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Encanto

A Colombian teenage girl has to face the frustration of being the only member of her family without magical powers.

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2021
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Scheduling Time To Feel Awe(some)

Feeling awe can boost your mood and make you feel more connected with others. Comedian Chris Duffy learns how to tap into that sense.

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The Science of Happiness
2021
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FindCenterFor me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it’s enough that there are trees in the world.

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Russell Brand
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Can You Find Wonder in the Ordinary?

When was the last time you felt connected to something bigger than yourself? Award-winning cellist Yumi Kendall looks, and listens, for moments of awe.

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The Science of Happiness
2019
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Finding Beauty in the Everyday

A tree next to a bus stop, a flower poking through the sidewalk. Our guest, a veteran of the Iraq War, discovers how awe and wonder can be found anywhere — if you just pay attention.

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The Science of Happiness
2019
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