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The Mind-Altering Power of Awe to Improve How You Perceive Your Life with Michael Amster • 292

Mind Love • Modern Mindfulness to Think, Feel, and Live Well

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The Three Types of Awe

There are three types of awe: sensorial, interconnected and conceptual. The first category is often the easiest for people to experience; that's awe of the senses. You can appreciate warm water from a shower head coming out or have an all moment by the heat in the warmth that touches your body. For example, here I am right now, we're both, you know, I think there's probably some natural light from the sun coming in through your window. And I'm having this all moment where I'm appreciating and realizing that the light I'm seeing traveled from the sun, which is 100 million miles away.

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