How Awe Can Change Your Life | Dacher Keltner
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The Importance of Tracking Emotions in the Body
There are really neat studies where people draw emotions in their body And there's a lot of consensus and like yeah, awe is in the arms and the goosebumps in the back of the neck. So that seems to be pretty reliable probably harder for people to accurately perceive activation of the vagus nerve. I think you know we think about the small self the default mode network deactivating That frees up our representation of the world to be free of the self. There are these really elevated states the big wow that you talked about in some literatures they call it bliss where you're just like You dissolve into the universe, you know, and I've felt that once or twice.
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