A Meditation to Inspire Awe in the New Year | Happiness Break
Jan 9, 2025
Experience a guided meditation focused on cultivating awe and welcoming new beginnings. Reflect on the beauty of budding plants, intriguing new friendships, and memorable moments that inspire wonder. Engage your senses as you connect with the present, allowing feelings of curiosity and awe to enhance your well-being. This practice encourages you to carry that sense of wonder throughout your day, uplifting your spirit as you embrace all that’s new.
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Benefits of Awe
Awe connects us to something larger than ourselves and reveals the extraordinary in the ordinary.
It promotes generosity, kindness, curiosity, and better health.
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Awe Meditation
Find a quiet space and focus on your breath.
Reflect on new beginnings, awe-inspiring moments, and the growth of nature.
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Meditation Steps
Notice bodily sensations, breath, and surroundings without judgment.
Imagine new beginnings, music, and nature's growth to cultivate awe.
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A meditation to cultivate a sense of awe by focusing on new beginnings -- whether it’s a budding plant, a new friendship, or a recent moment of wonder.
How to Do This Practice:
Find a quiet, comfortable space. Sit or lie down, close your eyes if you wish, and take deep breaths to center yourself.
Bring your awareness to the present moment—notice your breath, body sensations, and surroundings without judgment.
Reflect on new beginnings in your life. Picture meeting someone new and feeling curiosity about their stories, recall a moment of awe, like hearing a piece of music that moved you, imagine the growth of a budding plant, reaching for the light.
Focus on a recent moment of awe that touched you. Notice how it feels in your body and let the sensations linger.
When ready, gently open your eyes and carry this renewed sense of wonder into your day.
Today’s Happiness Break Host: Dacher Keltner is the host of The Science of Happiness podcast and is a co-instructor of the Greater Good Science Center’s popular online course of the same name. He’s also a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.
We’d love to hear about your experience with this practice! Share your thoughts at happinesspod@berkeley.edu or use the hashtag #happinesspod.
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