Now administering third eye drops.

Welcome back my friends. Hope you're well and I hope you're finding time to dip into the portal.

I hope you're receiving and radiating a bit of wonder. I have definitely had a massive

download of it as I just returned from another trip to Sedona and good gracious, the scenery,

the hikes. They're just I don't care if you're a hiker. I guess I wouldn't have even really

considered myself one before my first visit a few months ago. I still don't know if I do.

But let me tell you there are some places on this planet that will turn anyone into one and

Sedona is just one of those places. The towering red rock formations are just magnetic.

The massive scale of the views is mind altering on that note. Isn't that an interesting thing?

Why is it that majestic enormity that totally dwarfs us is so attractive?

Why is it that looking at the stars has the effect on our minds that it does? Gazing at the ocean

has the effect on us that it does. Whatever it is, it's a powerful thing, that sense of awe,

that sense of natural bewilderment. I have read a little bit about the research surrounding

what happens when your awestruck actually. It suggests that awe does have a number of measurable

positive effects. Not that I need science to tell me this because it is palpable when you

experience it for yourself. But I'm just going to pull the paper up. This is what it says, awe

experiences may bring with them a host of physiological, psychological, and social effects. For example,

studies have shown that feelings of awe can be accompanied by heart rate changes, goosebumps,

and a sensation of chills. And there's some evidence that awe may even decrease markers of

chronic inflammation. That's crazy. When it comes to psychological effects, studies have found

that awe can create a diminished sense of self and effect known as the small self, give people a

sense that they have more available time, increased feelings of connectedness, increased critical

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