BITESIZE | Do This Every Day to Feel Less Stress, More Joy and Boost Your Physical & Mental Wellbeing | Dr Dacher Keltner #591
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Welcome to Feel Better, Live More Bite-size, your weekly dose of positivity and optimism to get you ready for the weekend. Today's clip is from episode 340 of the podcast with Dr. Daka Keltner, professor of psychology and author of the book. Or the transformative power of everyday wonder. Now Dacca has spent decades studying the science of happiness, and in this clip he shares how experiencing awe can transform our physical and mental well-being, and why one of the ways we can access this best is through something called collective effervescence.
If I think about the common problems that exist medically, A lot of them are related to inflammation, the immune system, stress, the amygdala, the threat response part of the brain being overactive, right? And you have just beautifully explained that ore can buffer us against those, can be an antidote to many of the problems and things that we're suffering from in the modern world. So I agree with you. Yeah, ore is critical.
Every time I teach a large group of people about happiness, I'll have a mom come to me, especially post-pandemic, and they're like, you know, my 17-year-old son is in real deep distress. And what do I do? And I turn to the science of happiness and I say, man, find some social connections, get them outdoors, you know. give it give them a way to find meaning or reflect on life. And now awe, you know, awe helps your immune system reducing inflammation, helps your cardiovascular system, activates vagal tone, reduces activation in the amygdala, a threat-related region in the brain, helps you think more clearly and more creatively, makes you feel like you have less stress in life.
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