This article delves into the importance of wonder and awe in human experience, particularly in the modern world. It explores the scientific research on wonder, its connection to positive emotions like joy and awe, and its potential benefits for well-being.
Have you watched or read something that inspired you to pursue your passions only to be left feeling lost regarding what your purpose actually is? When it comes to finding purpose, there is often a lot of pressure and put on achievements and accomplishments. We start out the new year with resolve and, as you’ve heard, a couple of weeks into January, default mode resumes. Too often, purpose isn't valued as much if it isn't seen, tracked, rewarded, or admired by others.
Why We Need Wonder and Where It Is Missing. Curiosity and wonder research in education has focused primarily on young children in natural sciences classes where curiosity helps engage learners in the material. Research supporting wonder and as complex emotional experiences in adults, in the modern scientific sense, has been on the radar only in the past decade and a half. The general focus of emotional research up to that point had been on understanding and managing difficult emotions such as sadness, surprise, and disgust and only one obviously positive one: joy. More recently, other distinct positive emotions, such as compassion, desire, amusement, pride, and love have been studied as distinct emotions. Recent strides have attempted to describe formerly ineffable experiences — using language to describe what is transcendent and often indescribable — and to measure them.Wonder can often lead to awe, often defined as reverential respect. At the University of California, Berkeley, Maria Monroy and Dacher Keltner (2022) published an integrated description of the complexity of what occurs when humans experience awe when it is not threat or fear-based (which elicits different responses). Neurophysiologically, many things shift. Facial muscles change, the jaw drops, eyes widen and inner eyebrows rise. Our nervous systems experience a response, along with the release of positive neurochemicals. There may be accompanying sensations such as tingling along with a systemic anti-inflammatory respons
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