Awe activates our vagus nerve. That’s “the big bundle of nerves starting in the top of your spinal cord that helps you look ...

Turns out a walk feels better when you slow down and notice the world around you. This ‘awe walk’ can calm the mind, reduce ...

Dacher Keltner is on a mission to fill our lives with more awe. He has spent the last two decades studying awe, which he says is distinct from joy or fear, and how experiencing it can positively ...

It’s officially summer, an ideal time to look at walking tips and inspiration. I’m exploring “awe walks,” outdoor rambles intended to cultivate a sense of amazement. To help, I enlisted Dacher Keltner ...

I recently came across an inspiring study from Dr. Dacher Keltner's lab at UC Berkeley. Keltner, the author of the book Awe, has been researching this powerful emotion for decades. The study's ...

When you're spending so much time indoors, you don't get to experience "awe"—aka "a positive emotion elicited when in the presence of vast things not immediately understood"—as often. But researchers ...

In this installment of our series dedicated to walking tips and inspiration, we’re exploring “awe walks” – outdoor rambles intended to cultivate a sense of amazement. To help, I enlisted Dacher ...

An “awe walk” can have a profound effect on your emotions, mental health, and perhaps even your cognitive function, according to new research from the University of California, San Francisco. You can ...

Awe-walking is proving to become a scientifically supported wellness activity that translates traditional movement routines ...

Since the early 2000s, a movement has been afoot among psychologists to study and better understand the science of Awe—an overwhelming, self-transcendent sense of wonder and reverence in which you ...