Bring “awe” and healing into your life

Bring “awe” and healing into your life

The following tips will lead us to slow down, enjoy the moment and find out why the journey is the reward.

by Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D. —

Simplicity and balance in life can help guide us to a richer experience and find a way to feel more attached to our environment and the people around us.

The following tips will lead us to slow down, enjoy the moment and find out why the journey is the reward.

• Set aside handheld devices to make “raw” contact with yourself and others.
• Focus on what you love.
• Visualize an awe-inspiring moment and immerse yourself in it.
• Take time to be open to wonder and surprise.
• Appreciate life and the fuller ranges of your thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations.
• Let go of what is beyond your capabilities and rest in the vast unknown.
• View pain as a sometime teacher and an impetus to a fuller, richer life.
• Take time to contemplate nature.
• Engage in rich conversations about big questions, such as life, death and love.
• Be present with life’s rocky moments, realizing that these too shall pass, change and sometimes open to deeper awareness.

Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D., is a leading spokesperson for contemporary existential-humanistic psychology and an author of 10 books, including Awakening to Awe: Personal Stories of Profound Transformation. kirkjschneider.com.

Reprinted from AzNetNews, Volume 34, Number 4, August/September 2015.