Dacher Keltner

That's all part of this default mode network, big chunks of your cortex, and awe reduces activation there.

And what's really cool, and this is why we do neurosciences,

That's what happens with psychedelics.

That's what happens with intense musical experiences, the deactivation.

That's what happens in nature and awe.

It tells us how wonderful it is to lose the self in all of these wonders of life.

When I follow the isolation loneliness data and, you know, COVID was a tough hit, especially for young people, 18 to 30 really took a hit during COVID in terms of

connections and community, what we've been talking about.

And Vivek Murthy, our former Surgeon General, is saying this is an epidemic and it's spreading to different parts of the world, largely because of scrolling and looking at Instagram, you start to feel lonely.

And one of the findings I'm most proud of is that

a little moment of awe, suddenly you don't feel lonely.

You can go listen to an awe-inspiring piece of music.

You can go out in nature.

You can sort of think of a person of moral beauty to you who inspires you.

You'll feel like, God, I'm part of humanity.

And that's an antidote to the loneliness.

Even one minute a day gets you out of loneliness.

Yeah, yeah.

And, you know, we work with healthcare providers.

For 21 days, one minute a day, we just said, stop everything you're doing.