awe walk

You can do this or an awe run which is easier to say but harder to accomplish.  The idea is to take time out of your busy life to engage with nature in a way that takes you out of yourself.  It is at the heart of awe that you should feel yourself to be as nothing in the vastness of the world around you.  The walking allows you to to get a physical pick-me-up alongside a refresher for your soul.  Dacher Keltner, an American psychologist, and the man who coined the term, advises us to go out and look for awe-inspiring things, both great and small. He did this, went for walks in the neighbourhood, visited places that filled him with awe, tried to find texts and music to fill his head as he did his awe walk, and found that it changed his life.  He refers to this process as the ‘science of everyday wonder’ and published a book on it earlier this year.

Perhaps we can alternate the fart walk (about which I blogged earlier) and the awe walk. Really skilled people could do both at the same time.