rvallee
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
Literally all this does is cheapen the meaning of awe. It's like turning it into a product, commoditized, sold in bits and pieces for mindless consumption. Take it out of the freezer, microwave, then chomp on it without ever tasting the rubbery food imitation.Awe intervention
The intervention component consisted of teaching participants a simple three-step process of how to find awe in the ordinary: by paying attention to the environment in daily life, slowing down, and expanding on those awe moments. Participants were given the following instructions:
How to access moments of AWE in the ordinary
Attention: full and undivided attention on things you appreciate, value, or find amazing.
Wait: slow down, pause.
Exhale + Expand: amplify whatever sensations you are experiencing.
Participants were asked to practice finding awe at least three times a day. They were also reminded that finding awe does not require extraordinary events and can be practiced in brief moments throughout the day—less than 30 seconds, three times a day.
The exact opposite of what awe is about. It's like the problem with superpowers: if everyone is super, no one is. If someone tries to force "awe" 3 times per day, then nothing is.
Obviously this is just regular mindfulness with a different hat, which clearly is somewhere the field will have to turn to now that all the false promises of mindfulness have turned out to be just as much bunk as "power posing", The Secret and other superstitious nonsense.