In this 2023 interview with Justine Willis Toms, psychotherapist Jake Eagle and physician Michael Amster explore the emotion of awe and how we can receive its powerful benefits in our everyday life. They tell us awe gives us a break from processing and judging unwanted events, and gives us the capacity to see through them. We can access the larger picture without traveling to the Grand Canyon or overlooking Niagara Falls; it’s available to us in our everyday life and we can tap into it wit...

Discover a clinically proven way to reduce inflammation, stress, loneliness, and burnout while improving overall well-beingAs lifelong meditators and mindfulness teachers, we confess we were almost embarrassed when we stumbled onto a 5–15 second shortcut to transcendence. This idea ran counter to everything we knew about meditation before we began our research. But, yes, it is possible. It only requires accessing the powerful e...