And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols and this episode is all about experiencing all.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

Hello, folks. How are things with you? It's starting to get a bit cold around here now.

I don't know what it's like for you, but I think I'm going to be putting the central heating on now.

But then it is October, so I'd expect to.

But up until last week, it still felt like summer, didn't it?

Bright blue skies and everything, which is my favourite.

I'm happy for the changing of the seasons,

but I do like a clear sky, even if it's cold, do you? I live quite close to a country park

in the Midlands, and it's lovely. You can stand on this hill. You can see for miles around you,

20 or 30 miles, all these farms in the near and far distance,

spot all these little villages and towns surrounded by trees. You just see these little tiny tops of

church spires poking up. It's awesome. Well worth braving the cold for, because you can come home

and feel renewed. But, why? Why can't I feel that renewed?

Staring at a wall? Well, because my walls aren't awesome. That's why. And being in awe of something

is really good for us. But what do I mean by awe? What does something being awesome actually mean?

What actually is awe-inspiring and what goes on in our brain? Well, this has been studied,

because this is what happens when psychologists begin to run out of ideas and they don't want to

replicate any studies, even though they really should actually, but never mind that now. So, or tends to be defined as the emotion we experience

when we're encountering something with such perceived vastness that our brain might find it hard

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