The “Awe” Moment

Radio Headspace

Headspace Studios

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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How often do we experience life-affirming, and even life-changing moments? Staying mindful in these moments allows us to appreciate the “awe” and wonder that can often be as fleeting as the speed of light. Recognizing and appreciating these moments can have a cascading effect throughout our whole life. Want more Sam? Try Headspace today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's K-Sunga here. I just want to let you know that we've launched a brand
0:07.0	new call and advice podcast called Dear Headspace. Each week the headspace teachers, along
0:14.6	with some amazing new friends, are answering your questions about relationships, work,
0:20.7	life, mindfulness, and just about everything else. It's so different from anything we've
0:27.5	ever created and we're so excited for you to hear it. Dear Headspace comes out every
0:33.2	Tuesday on the Headspace app and anywhere that you listen to podcasts. Thanks for listening.
0:57.9	Hi, I'm Samantha and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Friday.
1:01.5	So I've been thinking a lot about the experience of awe lately. You know those moments in life
1:07.5	when we're struck by the wonder of life, the natural beauty and the reverence for a place,
1:12.3	an object, an action, or another human being. That moment when we're left speechless and just
1:17.8	glad to be alive. I've been lucky enough to have had many moments of awe in my life. The very
1:23.3	latest one being the moment I first met my best friend's newborn baby. I look into this new baby's
1:28.8	eyes and I'm amazed. I'm just imagining her neurosurcatory developing so fast with every interaction.
1:36.0	I'm also an awe of my friend becoming a mother. I asked her recently if anything about becoming
1:41.5	a mother surprised her and she said that she was never really into babies but after she had her
1:46.3	daughter all of that changed. When this caught me thinking about how often we experience these life
1:51.9	affirming and even life changing moments and how staying mindful and in the moment can really open
1:57.3	us up to more moments of awe and wonder. Recognizing and appreciating these moments can have a
2:02.9	cascading effect throughout our whole life. I recently took a workshop about all the benefits and
2:10.5	practices of awe and gratitude. The class was wide-ranging and included the science of awe and how it
2:16.5	affects us physiologically. A 2012 research paper explained that awe involves the sense that one
2:23.2	has encountered something immense in size, number, scope, complexity, ability, or social bearing.
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