On Awe, Wonder, Biofeedback, CBSM, Virtual Reality, Privacy, Being Wrong, and more

Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter, this time featuring eleven timely resources and research findings for lifelong brain health and mental well-being. #1. “Awe is the feeling we experience when encountering vast things that we don’t understand. Around the world and in culturally varying ways, studies show, we experience awe in response to others’ kindness and courage, nature, music, religious or spiritual practice, the visual and dramatic arts, and epiphany … It leads us to share, collaborate, and wonder. In experiences of awe, people often speak as if they have found their soul.” Sometimes it IS awesome to learn how the sausage was made: How Pixar’s “Soul” met the Science of Awe #2. Here are six suggestions to incorporate awe into daily routines and improve mental well-being, based on the new book Awestruck: Linger, Slow down, Appreciate your senses, Unplug, Awe walks, Awe journaling. #3. Speaking of Awe and Wonder, why not take a few minutes to appreciate our most precious natural resource via these five brain teasers? A few wonderful news for many with unmet mental/ brain health needs: #4. Prediction: In just a few years we’ll look back at today and wonder, why didn’t we all, of all ages, access biofeedback tools and games designed to measure and retrain heart rate variability? Growing research supports Heart Rate Variability (HRV) biofeedback training to lower stress and anxiety, increase sports performance #5. Blue Note Therapeu...
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