57. The Compassionate Instinct & Bringing Wonder Back to Work with Dacher Keltner
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The Neurophysiology of Awe
When we feel awe, it's fascinating when we feel tears. We have activation in the vagus nerve that slows down your heart and deepens your breathing. In the brain, a lot of people talk about during awe, they feel selfless or ego death. And indeed, these self-focused regions of the brain, the default mode network, when we feel awe are deactivated. So literally in the brain, you become egoless. It opens you up to the beauties of awe.
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