Cultivating Awe & Emotional Connection in Daily Life | Dr. Dacher Keltner

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“gical science is just, oh, I'm feeling angry or ashamed or embarrassed or love or compassion. And we know, and your question points to this, like, very often they're disconnected, right? The motor pattern and the language we use and how I would interpret it in another person. On balance, they correlate point two, so they're just weekly. They're kind of these streams of behavior that are just part of. who we are, right, are motor patterns in language. And there are a lot of ways to think about it. You could think about cultures that value being calm, like a lot of East Asian cultures. Be calm. Don't disrupt things. Don't blurt out. Don't protest, right? And you'll see this”

“awe is good for reduced inflammation, elevated vagal tone, reduced long COVID symptoms. We have people with long COVID, just a minute of awe a day, reduced long COVID symptoms. It's good news, right? And there's so much science on it that I just, now I think medical doctors are starting to think, like, I'm going to prescribe nature, I'll prescribe music through awe, right, as a mechanism. Welcome to the Huberman Lab podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life. I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. My guest today is Dr. Dacker Keltner.”

“There's a really good book, one that I like anyway, called A Fighter's Heart by a guy named Sam Sheridan. He explores different martial arts forms and describes the bonding experience of fighting.”

“ee, you know. No, it's not coffee. I drink coffee, and I know a thing or two about psychedelics by experience, and it's definitely not. And the data speak to this. And we've suddenly unleashed. the use of it. Tens of millions of people are using it. Not in the way that Michael Pollan describes of, like, putting it into a cultural container of inquiry, knowledge, and guidance, and someone who knows what they're doing around you. And so... Safety even. Safety, yeah. So we're seeing that. And I, you know, they changed my life. I got to them early. You know, in my late teens, 17, 18, 19, 19, I was a very”