#awe tag - Briefly

2 weeks ago

Mindfulness

Make Room for Magic by Harnessing the Power of Awe

2 months ago

Psychology

Why Einstein called awe the fundamental emotion

Awe is a fundamental emotion felt in response to vast mysteries that fuels creativity, science, wonder, and cultural connection.

4 months ago

Mindfulness

A Lunar Eclipse and the Power of Awe

Awe interrupts rigid thought patterns, fosters truth, gratitude, inspiration, and resilience, and enables openness to uncertainty through ordinary and extraordinary moments.

1 week ago

Mindfulness

Practicing Wonder in a Threat-Focused World

2 weeks ago

Mindfulness

Make Room for Magic by Harnessing the Power of Awe

2 months ago

Psychology

Why Einstein called awe the fundamental emotion

4 months ago

Mindfulness

A Lunar Eclipse and the Power of Awe

A night where awe took center stage

Awe is a universal emotion that reshapes brains, dissolves ego boundaries, and fosters generosity, creativity, resilience, and curiosity about vast mysteries.

How life changes when you start embracing mystery

I wanted to say three extemporaneous things before I launch it in my prepared comments. The first was I wanted to thank Freethink and the Templeton Foundation. What an amazing night. I mean, I'm, I'm just like so impressed and moved and, you know, the last act, I just, I sort of wish I was on mushrooms now, and when they asked me to do this, I thought, yeah, sure.

Film

Psychology

Building Your Social Life With Wonder and Curiosity

Awe quiets self-focused mental activity, deactivates the DMN, shifts attention outward, fosters present-moment openness, and strengthens social connection and collaboration.

Science

What Earth's most extreme places teach us about being human

Deep-ocean, high-mountain, and space exploration produce intense feelings of awe through extreme environments, sensory limits, and confronting vastness.

Science

In Search of Awe

Awe can transform mental health by restructuring mental frames and serve as a therapeutic asset, accessible through mindful awareness even without extraordinary events.

Mindfulness

2 months ago

The spiritual practice of paying attention

Attentive noticing of fleeting, fragile moments honors the living and helps carry forward memories after loss.

Mental health

3 months ago

Using Emotional Power to Envision the Impossible

Awe broadens attention and creativity, enabling envisioning of possibilities, while negative emotions narrow focus toward threats and failures, creating limiting cognitive cycles.

Science

4 months ago

Your Brain on Awe and Moments of Wonder

Nature reduces stress and sharpens visual processing, meditation links perception with self-awareness via recognition and memory networks, and AI art stimulates interest while engaging fewer neural systems.

Travel

fromThe Atlantic

6 months ago

The Limits of the Family Vacation

Family vacations can be fulfilling but are not a remedy for personal issues.

Wellness

7 months ago

Cultivating Presence, Empathy, and Awe

Existential-humanistic therapy emphasizes living with wonder and discovery rather than fear, promoting a more profound connection to oneself and others.

Mental health