Happiness Break: Feeling the Awe of Nature from Anywhere, with Dacher Keltner
Host Dacher Keltner leads us through an exercise in feeling the serenity and wonder that nature brings us, no matter where we are.
\n\nLink to episode transcript: https://tinyurl.com/yc6dwdnp
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How to Do This Practice:
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Find a spot where you can sit and rest comfortably. Once you\u2019re ready, close your eyes.
\nBegin breathing slowly and deeply. Focus on your breath and unclench your muscles from head to toe.
\nThink of a place in nature that is sacred or significant to you. What do you hear? What do you see? Try to create as clear of an image as you can in your mind.
\nNotice what feelings arise as you think of this place; what feelings do you associate with it?
\nContemplate how this place has become a part of who you are; how it lives in your mind and how you can conjure up the feeling of it within yourself.
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\n Today\u2019s Happiness Break host:
Dacher Keltner is the host of the Greater Good Science Center\u2019s award-winning podcast, The Science of Happiness and is a co-instructor of the GGSC\u2019s popular online course of the same name. He\u2019s also the founding director of the Greater Good Science Center and a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.
\n\nHis new book is Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life.
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More resources from The Greater Good Science Center:
\n\nSecrets of the Vagus Nerve: https://tinyurl.com/yzuxtuzp
\n\nWhy We Should Look Up at the Sky (Podcast): https://tinyurl.com/fn3bttw6
\n\nWhat\u2019s the Most Common Sense of Awe? https://tinyurl.com/2p842t8r
\n\nHappiness Break: How to Ground Yourself: https://tinyurl.com/289ph9cz
\n\nHappiness Break: Experience Nature Wherever You Are: https://tinyurl.com/yv46xrr4
\n\nWhy You Should Snap Pictures of Nature: https://tinyurl.com/5fp7bhk6
\n\nCould Your Life Be More Awesome? Take our Awe Quiz https://tinyurl.com/2p8mz57f
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\n\nWe're living through a mental health crisis. Between the stress, anxiety, depression, loneliness, burnout \u2014 we all could use a break to feel better. That's where Happiness Break comes in. In each biweekly podcast episode, instructors guide you through research-backed practices and meditations that you can do in real-time. These relaxing and uplifting practices have been shown in a lab to help you cultivate calm, compassion, connection, mindfulness, and more \u2014 what the latest science says will directly support your well-being. All in less than ten minutes. A little break in your day.