Brief doses of awe, getting outdoors, dancing, listening to music, having a great conversation, it boosts well-being.

We know it increases your feeling good about life.

Brief moments of all help you handle daily stresses better.

Brief moments of awe, even when you're by yourself in nature, music,

make you feel connected and decrease loneliness.

Brief moments of all make you more creative,

and they make you feel like the people around you even ideological adversaries you kind of

share stuff right you're you're part of a community so when you put that

together it just tells us like if we're really thinking about the utility of all,

it's good news for human beings.

So have you ever felt like you're just kind of moving through life in a trance like your body is there

But your mind is just off somewhere else disconnected to the moment to the person or people around you, to your environment.

And even when you are there, you feel pulled in a million different directions, your attention

being almost violently torn between tasks, projects, and demands struggling to focus.

We get caught in trances of distraction and busyness, pulled away from the beauty and magic that surrounds us every day, often all day.

And that's just what's happening on the outside.

On the inside, a near maniacal slipstream of chatter, self-talk, overthinking,

over-planning fear and lament keeps us spinning in the caverns of her mind, closed off

from the world and people around us, from actually being present in what's happening

right before us, let alone seeing the blessing of it and deriving genuine joy from it.

I have come to believe in a simple idea.

Attention is life.

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