As 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 emotion of awe in ordinary, everyday life. The changes in our lives have been profound, and after seeing the results repeated again and again in our thousands of patients, clients, and study participants, we’ve proven that our shortcut, coined the A.W.E. Method, works.
–from the Preface
Think about the last time you were truly in awe – perhaps on a walk or whilst watching a musician perform live – maybe you felt goosebumps or you lost your sense of time? Unbeknownst to you, some pretty incredible things were happening inside your body. Your fight-flight-freeze response became less active and activity decreased in your brain’s default mode network, which is associated with both chronic pain and anxiety. Your interleukin-6 levels decreased, which can reduce chronic inflammation and lower your risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and depression.
Being in awe can be beneficial to both your mind and body and now the AWE method provides a shortcut to all these benefits and is accessible to anyone, anywhere. ATTENTION (give your full focus to something), WAIT (take a deep breath and appreciate that thing), EXHALE and EXPAND (as you exhale slowly, allow your feelings to expand and grow). 5-15 seconds, two or three times a day – that’s all!
In this book you’ll learn:
– about the surprising and little known science of awe
– how we unwittingly cut ourselves off from feeling awe
– how AWE can enhance traditional mental health therapies
– strategies for using AWE to improve relationships, alleviate existential anxiety and manage chronic pain
– the different types of awe we can experience (sensorial, conceptual, and interconnected)
– how to recognize and get good at experiencing each type of awe
Learn how to microdose mindfulness through the power of AWE now.
–from the Preface
Think about the last time you were truly in awe – perhaps on a walk or whilst watching a musician perform live – maybe you felt goosebumps or you lost your sense of time? Unbeknownst to you, some pretty incredible things were happening inside your body. Your fight-flight-freeze response became less active and activity decreased in your brain’s default mode network, which is associated with both chronic pain and anxiety. Your interleukin-6 levels decreased, which can reduce chronic inflammation and lower your risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and depression.
Being in awe can be beneficial to both your mind and body and now the AWE method provides a shortcut to all these benefits and is accessible to anyone, anywhere. ATTENTION (give your full focus to something), WAIT (take a deep breath and appreciate that thing), EXHALE and EXPAND (as you exhale slowly, allow your feelings to expand and grow). 5-15 seconds, two or three times a day – that’s all!
In this book you’ll learn:
– about the surprising and little known science of awe
– how we unwittingly cut ourselves off from feeling awe
– how AWE can enhance traditional mental health therapies
– strategies for using AWE to improve relationships, alleviate existential anxiety and manage chronic pain
– the different types of awe we can experience (sensorial, conceptual, and interconnected)
– how to recognize and get good at experiencing each type of awe
Learn how to microdose mindfulness through the power of AWE now.
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A powerful, practical, science-backed book that shows us how finding awe everywhere, every day is essential to our health and well-being. In The Power of Awe, the authors generously share their A.W.E. Method, a novel and refreshing approach to reduce stress, anxiety and pain by finding awe in the ordinary.
I love this book! It's direct, powerful, heartfelt and grounded in science. Frankly, I am in awe of the deep practices offered by the authors. A gem.
In this deeply insightful book, Jake Eagle and Michael Amster introduce their A.W.E. contemplative approach, tested during the stress and trauma of the COVID pandemic, to increase your everyday sense of awe and wonder. This original book offers a new path to enjoying a more meaningful and awe-filled life, inspiring us to open our eyes to the wonders around us.
The Power of Awe encapsulates the essence of the healing journey out of chronic mental and physical pain. I have witnessed hundreds of patients break from pain with these concepts. I am in awe of Eagle and Amster's work and how well it is presented.
The Power of Awe is an extraordinary book ... that helps us cultivate the fuller treasures and lifetime benefits of this gem of an emotion. Through practical methods of accessing awe at any moment, along with keen existential insights, this book takes us a major step toward a revitalised consciousness that is needed now.
Eagle and Amster's A.W.E. Method, is an extraordinary technique for synthesizing our panoramic understanding of mindfulness, biochemistry, neuroscience, and psychology, and turning it into a pure and conscious laser focus that resets the way we feel, while it opens up our minds to connectivity with others and clarity of thought within. Supported by a boatload of science, the fundamentals of this approach are easily understood and quickly implemented by anyone wanting to enhance their lives. I recommend it highly.
This unprecedented work introduces readers to the ingenious practice of microdosing on mindfulness. Jake Eagle and Michael Amster are wise and trustworthy guides who explain the science and impact of their research with clarity and confidence. Using relatable examples from clients and their own lives, the authors lead readers through this incredibly simple yet remarkably profound technique. The Power of Awe is a brilliant book that will revolutionize the way we think about mindfulness.
A brilliant and original take on the emotional state of awe that eloquently illustrates what science is showing: Awe is indeed powerful, able to dampen fight-flight responses and activate a parasympathetic state to support calm feelings and relaxation-the only state, we're learning, in which healing of both mental and physical challenges and disruptions can efficiently occur.
The Power of Awe is my idea of an antianxiety playbook for parents-and their kids. This simple A.W.E. Method can help turn the tide of our anxiety-ridden society in the most natural of ways-by showing us how to access awe, an emotion that is our birthright and that puts us in a state from which we can better access our resources. The A.W.E. Method is must-have addition to our antianxiety toolbox.
The Power of Awe is a breakthrough that integrates the wisdom of all great religious traditions with the insights of modern psychology to bring healing to anyone who seeks it
Safer and possibly more effective than psychotropic drugs, AWE also is more approachable for most of us than meditation. I would argue that the A.W.E. Method offers a simple, free and effective way to microdose on the biology of love.
Enlightening... This convincing appraisal of awe's many possibilities helps frame mindfulness in a fascinating and eminently actionable way. Wellness gurus and those merely seeking a break from frenetic daily life will want to take a look