That space is there.

Hi everyone, I'm Florence Williams, your guest host for the week.

Welcome to Radio Headspace and to Tuesday.

If you listened yesterday, you know that much of my writing has been dedicated to the

benefits of nature.

And this week, we're diving into the science of how nature can improve our mental health.

So today, we're going to talk about how being in nature can make us feel a profound sense

of awe.

I'll dive into what it actually means to feel that awe and how it can increase our resilience

and even give us a deeper sense of connection to the world around us.

The definition of awe is the feeling we get in the presence of something vast.

The challenges are current frames of reference.

In other words, how we view human nature or the world.

For example, during the pandemic, I would walk in my neighborhood in Washington, D.C. to

a street where I could see the sunset.

Doing this practice got me out of the house, it got me out of my head, and it just kind

of blew me away, you know, with this nightly display of beauty.

Often my neighbors would walk down and stand around also.

And experiencing this with my neighbors around me were all going crazy over the colors

in the sky.

It was a reminder that we're in this together.

This is a hard and confusing time, but we're going to get through it.

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