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Tonight is on psychological benefits of the state of awe

encountering the sublime and why we want to cultivate this is a practice and we're going to be covering all of the numerous

rewards and how we can go about experiencing awe not just as a an infrequent

event but is actually something that can be conjured on a daily basis in fact many times a day.

There's two types of what we could call an underlying causative situations that actuate or induce states of anxiety.

The first state is exteroceptive.

It means we encounter a trigger in the world around us.

Trigger is a sensation, an image, a situation that is reminiscent of a past event that was emotionally threatening or wounding or

traumatic and encountering the stimuli activates in us a heightened hypervigilant survival state. We go up into the

sympathetic nervous system and fight-flight. Fallen behaviors become endemic.

And so for example if you're in a car accident you not

only hear the screeching of the tires and the seeing the headlights all in association with your body contracting as you expect the

collision to happen but then also as well you might be listening to a specific piece of music on the radio. Today at the gym they were playing

Kylie Minaug's can't get you out of my head. So I'll use that as an example.

Suppose you happen to have that on the radio and

suppose the car collusion happens on a specific street or you see something right before it. So then later on in life you

here can't get you out of my head and even though it's a safe stimuli it

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