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The "Happy Life" Scientist: How To FINALLY Beat Stress, Worry & Uncertainty!-- Dacher Keltner
The feeling of awe reduces the activation in the inflammation system in your immune system. The immune system is all these cells distributed throughout your body that helps you protect against dangerous elements from the outside, like viruses and bacteria.
Awe is an emotion you have when you encounter something big or vast that is outside your frame of reference of reality.
Awe is a sense of mystery you have when you said,” Oh. I can't figure this out. Why do rainbows exist? "
The emotion of awe stimulates wonder and creativity.
There are a lot of ways in which we feel awe all the time.
When we encounter somebody who is really kind in the streets, we think, “Wow! That was really generous.”
Sometimes a story of people's random acts of kindness gives us the chills. That chills you feel is awe.
2 minutes of awe every other day is about as good for you as anything you can do.
It calms stress, it reduces inflammation, activate the vagus (迷走神經 ) nerves which calms the heart rate, and it's good for digestion.
Go for a walk. When you go out, pause, take some deep breathing, and get sync/ed up with your footsteps. This is a classic kind of walking meditation approach and then look for awe. Take a moment to look at small things. Then pan out and look at the vastness of where you are, the city or nature, up at the sky. And that gets you into this awe mindset.
