Self Improvement
How Awe Walks Can Inspire Joy
Awe walks may allow you to better connect to the world and lower your stress levels.
Have you stood before the Great Pyramids of Egypt, witnessed a virtuosic piano performance, or hiked in The Basho Wayfarer in Japan? You may have experienced the self-transcendent sensation known as “awe.” When I experience it, I feel like I am a part of something greater than myself.
The experience of awe can not only change how you feel but influence how you behave, too. Experience wonder, and you may have the sense of more connectedness to something bigger than yourself. Aristotle knew it, offering that “in all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
Einstein gets more granular, observing that “the important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when contemplating the mysteries of eternity, or life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.”
The science of awe
Today we look at a simple intervention that may meaningfully change your day. But first, I want to share a movement that picked up steam in the early 2000s…
