Dacher Keltner, PhD is the founding director of the Greater Good Science Center nd a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkley. He is the host of the Greater Good Science Center’s award-winning podcast, The Science of Happiness and is a co-instructor of the GGSC’s popular online course of the same name. He is also a best-selling author. His latest book is Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life.
What you'll learn from this episode:
How happiness benefits our lives in multiple ways, including our relationships, life expectancy, and work—and how awe is one of the easiest ways we can boost our happiness.
How Dacher Keltner defines awe as our experience with vast mysteries, and how to find awe in music, nature, art, or any experience that transcends our reality.
That awe is one of the easiest pathways to better health. It is associated with decreased inflammation, lower stress, reduced activation of the amygdala, reduced pain in older adults, and lower levels of PTSD in veterans.
The analgesic effect of listening to your favorite music and how the goosebumps is a physiological response that all social mammals have when we merge with others in response to peril.
What Groundhog’s Day Syndrome is, and how we can break free from the monotony of our everyday lives by seeking novelty and injecting our lives with awe.
And much more!
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Resources from this episode:
The UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics
8 Ways to Deal With Groundhog Day Syndrome | Psychology Today
Can Awe Boost Health? | Greater Good
Music: A Better Alternative Than Pain? | PMC
Opioid Facts and Statistics | HHS.gov
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About
Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan | Amazon
I Sing the Body Electric by Walt Whitman | Poetry Foundation
Science May Have Finally Explained The Reason Why We Still Get Goosebumps
Schindler's List (1993) | IMDb
The Disasters of War | Wikipedia
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