Finding Awe in Every Moment with Lani Shiota

Live Happy Now

Live Happy LLC

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:mental Health

4.7 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Lani Shiota completed her Ph.D. in Social/Personality Psychology at University of California, Berkeley, in 2003, and then received post-doctoral training in the Berkeley Psychophysiology Lab. She established the Shiota Psychophysiology Laboratory for Affective Testing (a.k.a. SPLAT Lab), which studies human emotions, relationships, and awe. Awe has been defined as the positive emotion one may experience when confronting a vast stimulus that is not accounted for by one's current understanding, and/or challenges one’s day-to-day scope of experience. What you'll learn in this podcast: How to tap into awe Why experiencing awe is so important The research being conducted on the benefits of awe

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0:00.0	Long ignored by science, this powerful emotion proves to have benefits for the mind, body,
0:04.8	and spirit.
0:06.0	Prepare to find all in this episode of Live Happy Now.
0:10.0	The ancient Greeks defined happiness as the joy you feel moving towards your potential.
0:16.5	To think about positive psychology, it's a science, and it's actually younger than the internet, believe
0:22.9	it or not. The reality is that social connection is in the research, the greatest predictor
0:28.9	we have of long-term happiness. You have some factors in your control. They can promote the health
0:36.1	and resilience and growth of your absolutely
0:38.0	most important asset, which is your brain.
0:40.8	And so it all comes down to understanding ourselves.
0:43.8	There's a way for all of us to succeed, but it might take different things.
0:47.8	We're all looking for the same thing, and that's a way to bring a little bit more joy to our day.
0:52.0	Join us as we look at the many different paths that lead us to that happy place.
0:55.7	This is Live Happy Now.
0:57.8	Hello and greetings and welcome to another edition of the Live Happy Now podcast.
1:02.1	I'm your host, J.R. Houston, and I'm thrilled to have you here wherever you are in the world.
1:06.2	However you may be tuning in, we thank you for making us a part of your day.
1:10.3	We're also very thrilled to make a
1:13.1	huge announcement regarding Live Happy. Over the past two years, you've been tuning into this podcast
1:18.1	each and every week to hear the latest in positive psychology news and hear from the leading
1:22.8	experts in the field as well as folks who have made happiness journeys of their own. And thanks to you doing
1:28.8	so, some people in high places took notice, namely CBS Radio, right here in Dallas, Texas, where
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