From: The Atlantic
Awe Is Essential
September 17, 2025
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“When I play, I feel the vibration in my heart,” the cellist Yumi Kendall told Dacher Keltner, a psychologist who studies awe. “It is beyond language. Beyond thought. Beyond religion. It is like a cashmere blanket of sound.”
The science of awe is, relative to other fields, still in its infancy, so there’s much we have to learn. But the research we do have indicates that a sense of awe can have positive effects on individuals, including calming down our nervous system, reducing feelings of anxiety and stress, and lowering inflammation markers in the body.
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