I was fascinated to learn this week that it's possible to get a PHD in Awe.**   I synchronistically stumbled across a website dedicated to the Project Awe team at the University of California Berkely.   Well, technically I guess the degree would be in psychology and the focus of one's research would be awe.  But still, my very cells were excited and quivered with the divine possibilities.  

I spent the last couple of days immersed in my desire to write a blog post that would elicit the awe that I feel about life in you, dear reader.  Its AwemaZing to go flow each day in the awe-streams as I experience every sense attuned to divine wonder and  “radiant ecstasy, being absolutely ravished emotionally by the here and now.” 
“We all know those moments are there. Those are the moments that would make final cut. Only in these moments we experience afresh the hardly bearable ecstasy of direct energy exploding on our nerve endings.” Jason Silva

 Even now, the hairs are raising on my neck just [writing] about it.” (Piloerection is a telltale accompaniment to awe.) 1  

I researched physical, mental emotional, and sacred aspects of awe and found many quotes that inspired and helped clarify the concepts of awe. It could be a starting point for my dissertation, but I'm taking pity on you and will attempt to stick to the good stuff like a bit of what Awe is and some ideas for how to activate it for a blog or two. 

 
Can Awe Be Defined? 

The traditional definition of awe is "a strong feeling of respect or amazement brought on by something that is beautiful or sacred."  Doesn't quite inspire Awe does it? 

I prefer the following upgraded definitions   
Awe is 'the glories of the universe bursting inside your senses causing your energy to uplift, your vibration to accelerate, your being to soar and your genius to burst forth through every cell of you!'   Soleira Green 

It's the capacity of the human mind to be stimulated, inspired and to experience wonder....an experience of such perceptual vastness you literally have to reconfigure your mental models of the world to assimilate it.”   Jason Silva

I really resonated with the divine aspect of this quote by Nikos Kazantzakas
 I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge or Virtue or Goodness or Victory but something even greater, more heroic ......: Sacred Awe!   
 


How to Experience Awe

1. Ensure you interact with the world from its highest conscious perspective 
Jason Silva says we need to mess with our perceptual apparatus in order to have the kind of emotional and aesthetic experience from life that we render most meaningful?”
One of the ways that we elicit wonder is by scrambling the self temporarily so that the world can seep in,” Silva says. “That’s what rapture is. That’s what illumination is. That’s what that sort of infinite comprehending awe that human beings love so much [is].”
"Inspiration", he points out, "comes from the Greek word to breathe in. “This is the rhapsodic, ecstatic, bursting forth of awe that expands our perceptual parameters beyond all previous limits and we literally have to reconfigure our mental models of the world in order to assimilate the beauty of that download,”   

 2. Be Aware of Life Itself
The author Henry Miller advised: “The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself;”  
 
 3.  Live every moment as sacred,
 If you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, ​and live divinely.
 
4.  Establish an Awe Set Point
I think we can live in Awe easily and effortlessly if we frequently remind ourselves so it becomes a habitual operating frequency or set point. 
If you need a physical reminder, get a wide rubber band from a stationary store, write Awe on it and wear it around your wrist.   (you might want to sweet talk your postal worker,...mine has a supply she wraps around the mail to keep it sorted.)  Or set a happy chime on your phone. When it sounds breathe and get into the good  AWE vibrations.

 5. Become as a little child
Wayne Dyer taught about awe in so many ways.  He noted that "to be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe."    

6. Create your Own Definition of Divine AWE and Make a Mantra
Take a few minutes and write down a short definition of AWE that inspires you. Feel it resonate with the Divine You. Set an intention to be ecstatically transported by the wonder of your words.  There is an interesting contemplative practice where you breath in half the words and breathe out the other half.   Then pick one word from the in breath and one word from the out breath and use that as a mantra or reminder to feel transformed or transcendent in any moment.   

7.  Take an AWE Break
The following is similar to an energy Zing I recorded for people who participated in my offering at the Visionary Networks AWE FEST a couple of years ago.  Try it when you want to take a few minutes for an AWE break

• Breathe and take in your new definition of awe....  Ask it to imbue into your cells and subatomic particles.  Relish the awemaZing journey deep inside you. 
• Embody the highest frequency of personal and infinite consciousness with respect to your unlimited and unrestricted abilities and heighten your capacity for experiencing each moment fully.
• Feel your personal AWE ripple powerfully thru you and into your life. Let it merge with Universal AWE and enjoy engaging with the Power of AWE
• Let the energy of AWE expand with you and ripple AWE out to everyone and everything. 
• Celebrate this new upgraded version of Awe, as together we uplift its energy  and create it AWE-new.  Revel and enhance the awe even further, so you are moved beyond anything you have ever imagined.  
• Envision how this new Awe is affecting the planet, the solar system and the universe,   

Thoughts to Leave You With

•  Remember YOU create your AWEsome Reality

When you use the tools I offer on this website and live each moment in highest conscious frequency remembering to choose what feels best in each moment, you create an AWEmaZing reality. This skill is such a major component of awe and it’s a key in what I teach when we live beyond the mundane and experience the mystery and magic of life as we create it anew in each moment.

•   Keep it lighthearted when contemplating the awesomeness of the world and the cosmos.  

After reading quotes for a couple of hours I especially appreciated this particular one..  Perhaps its a good one to end this blog with to keep it all in perspective. 
​      " In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the     heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space   wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned   in their orbital majesty.
 And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet."  
                                                                                          Les Dawson

• BE the AWE in AWESOME

 
Next Blog I will share more ideas for imbuing your Divine Life with AWE and share some research on why experiencing AWE enhances your mind-body soul and society.  In the meantime, I invite you to share your AweHa's and thoughts on my Divine You Facebook Page. 


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​**  Project Awe. Dacher Keltner is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley and director of the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab (http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~keltner/). Dacher also serves as the Faculty Director of the Berkeley Greater Good Science Center (http://greatergood.berkeley.edu).  
Dacher's research focuses the biological and evolutionary origins of compassion, awe, love, and beauty, and power, social class, and inequality. Dacher is one of the leading scholars studying the psychology of awe and he recently secured funding from the Templeton Foundation (http://www.templeton.org/) to conduct research examining how awe is experienced across the globe. Utne Reader selected Dacher for one of its 50 2008 visionaries
He has a group of researchers and grad student who are part of the Project Awe Team. Project Awe is part of a University of California, Berkeley research project designed to explore the psychology of awe across the globe.They hope this website will be a way not only for people to help them better understand how awe is experienced around the world but also for you to learn more about yourself and connect with and inspire others through awe.

1.http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2014-6-november-december/feature/science-awe

Traditional definition  http://www.yourdictionary.com/awe#8qkWjvk6bu8uUgGe.99

Nikos Kazantzakas quote: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/awe_5.html

 Les Dawson quote http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/awe.html

​The Divine You…. The Power of Higher Frequency Words
One important aspect of divine living is being aware of the power of the words you choose. The universe listens or resonates to positive, specific Words.  What you speak with feeling will make the experience even stronger.  This ancient knowledge has been recorded in the Jewish and Christian Scriptures.  You may remember reading or hearing that, “In the Beginning was the Word” ...and so began creation.
The more you live as the Divine You, in the flow of joy and the thrill of higher conscious life, the more easily your words will actualize in your reality.  So its vital to remain aware of what words you choose to express yourself.  The other day I was commenting to a friend about how I had missed out on having mushrooms because I hadn’t gone to my traditional restaurant for my birthday. Lo and behold, a couple of days later I was having dinner at another friend’s house and there in the salad were mushrooms.   That’s one of many examples of the synchronicities I create with my words.
You can shift your energy quickly to create what you desire using language.  Choose a quote, affirmation or mantra that inspires or acts as a symbol of higher vibration. Connect with your body.  I feel my heart open up and expand to fill my chest, I breathe easier and I actually feel as if the sack of cares and woes I may carry if I slip momentarily into  unconscious lift right off  my shoulders so I feel light and free again. .  
 
 
The Power of I AM
You must realize If you say I AM, the words that follow have such power, they will manifest whatever you are indicating.  So consciously cue yourself to BE in your divine frequency and revel in the rapture there for a moment before you even think, write or speak . 
When I was studying in seminary I did an exercise which led me to realize the importance of claiming I AM THAT I AM.   It’s partly in the way you say and understand it.  Think of it in terms of I am creating or being THAT particular I AM.  A divine higher conscious being.  A unique aspect or the Oneness of All That IS
You must realize If you say I AM, the words that follow have such power, they will manifest whatever you are indicating.  So consciously cue yourself to BE in your divine frequency and revel in the rapture there for a moment before you even think, write or speak I AM. 
 
Don’t own your challenges, Focus on their possibilities.    
Before you chose to live fully in all your divinity you may have been accustomed to using words that have a lower vibration   They often would just slip out if you weren’t really paying attention to your choice of words. 
Remember, If you take ownership of some condition that reality will continue to occur.  A dense frequency example of this would be by saying “I have poor eyesight”; you are claiming that and making it so. If you must speak of a challenge try to say it in a way that doesn’t own it, and detach from any feelings associated with it. See the humor in it.  Perhaps something along the lines of My body has ears that sometimes don’t hear what’s being said accurately.  I thought you said something absurd……    I chose that wording instead of “I have trouble hearing” which, by virtue of Universal Laws, is a self fulfilling prophesy). 
Its better to put your focus on enjoying what you can hear in situations as that will put you in the flow of easy effortless hearing. 
 
Be Aware of Subtle Nuances
There are common words that we don’t even associate with lower vibration.  For example if we are speaking about following our path we will often label ourselves as seekers.  We seek enlightenment, peace, joy, love and more.  Seeking implies never finding.   It tells the universe that we lack knowledge, wisdom and whatever else we desire. The universal laws give us what we focus on, so we are presented with more and more opportunities to seek.  If we reframe our perception and operate from the perspective that we are finding something, the universe aligns with that energy and our desires show up.  As I first wrote this sentence I used the future tense - the universe will align and our desires will show up. The problem with using the future tense is we never, ever get to tomorrow, because when tomorrow arrives it is today.   Speaking in future tense makes manifesting much more difficult.    Another common word to think carefully about using is ‘want’.  Want implies lack.  If I want a new car it means I don’t have one right now.  I lack a new car.   Many words that begin with ‘un’, ‘dis’, and ‘de’ also imply lack. 
 
 Be Selective with the Words You Choose.
Choosing higher vibration words when you speak helps you reach and stay in higher consciousness. I am becoming more and more selective in the words I use and if a word no longer resonates at a high frequency I ask my Divine Self or the sentient beings I play with to provide another word. 
You may remember my blog that presented a new model of wholeness to replace the old concept of balance because for me the word balance has some density attached to it.  I’m delighted that I was offered another alternative word by the sentient beings the other day….. stillness.  When you are in balance you are still and able to experience peace and well being.  Not even slightly swaying off course.  That resonated more than trying to have equal expressions in every area of my life. 
Another word I no longer resonate with is healing.  Healing is like lack it implies something is wrong.  To me when we are in divine consciousness there are no problems and no solutions.  We are manifesting in the moment as  our body mind or spirit is recreating and reconfiguring itself for greater things.  Often we are doing big energy work with the universe but we are interpreting the sensations personally. We may need to nurture our body mind and spirit as the energy is playing out, and it is important we choose to see it from the greatest possibility and perspective. 
For years I have been told I should be more grounded, a sense of being in my body on this earth. One day I  happened to be sharing how difficult this was with my coach.  She asked me what I felt inside when I used that word.  I checked in and told her it felt like my heart was being squeezed, it was hard to breath and I had an image that my leg had a ball and chain around it.  No Wonder I had challenges being grounded.  We brainstormed and came up with the word embodied.  This shifted my perspective and my etheric body, (which I had perceived as usually being stuck half in and half out of my physicality), move right into my feet and I become fully physically present. That was a first step.  Now when someone tells me to ground thru the core of the earth, I tell them I’m connecting with the matrix that is mother earth.
 
One of the ways to go beyond words and language when you are having a conversation is to deeply listen to the true meaning the other person intends.
 
Be Selective with the Words You Choose to Receive.
Another aspect of using language to sustain divine living is to be aware of what words are coming in when you are consciously aware and focusing externally. Pay attention to what you choose to focus on.  Be very discerning regarding your choices of how you receive news, the words of songs you listen to and what you allow into your inbox or look at on your Facebook or other social media sites.  Observe how changing what you focus on shifts your energy.  It’s fun to notice that you attract posts that match your high frequency output.  I rarely see anything dense on my Facebook pages.  Even the chaotic stuff happening in the world that occasionally surfaces is reframed to its highest possibility. 
We all use words slightly differently.  We think we understand what we are hearing when in fact its based on our interpretation of the words used.  One of the ways to go beyond words and language when you are having a conversation or reading someone’s words is to intend to deeply understand the energy and ascertain the true meaning the other person intends.
 
Practice
I have a couple of colleagues who love playing with words, just as I do.  It keeps me on my toes and makes me more aware of what I choose to say. You may want to cultivate word play with some of your like-minded friends
Set expectations to hear words in their higher octave meanings according to your desires.  Perhaps create an intention that New words are always revealing themselves; they are non-dualistic, expressions of acceptance.
Get into your highest vibration and use Word Art , create a vision board with lots of high vibing words, colour words or write a story and see how quickly you bring the words into form in your life. 
 
The following are high vibration words to play with.  Feel how they impact your body, mind and spirit.  If your heart feels expansive and your cells Zing it may be a word for you! 
Try picking one word a day and see how many times you can experience it.   
  
What other  high vibration energy inducing words will you add to the list?   ​Add them or any comments to  my facebook page

I added this shots of awe video I synchronistically discovered which elaborates on the neurology of language.  

I had a big number birthday yesterday.  Another decade has passed.  It was exciting, fulfilling and I met what some might call challenges with an   open heart to see the highest divine perspective.  




​I had started writing a post about the new Crone/Wise Woman last week and it has disappeared into the ethers.  I think I erased it somehow.  I had some profound insights about how crones, who have always had great power were taking great leaps to supercede their possibilities and create new ways of being in the world.  

That idea excites me, and I will pursue it  but today I'm feeling moved to deep contemplation and inner stillness, basking in the magnificent happy birthday wishes I received from more people than my age in years. 

So what does this have to do with you?  
This post reflects on how we thrive by going inside and thrilling to the wonder of life, the gratitude that makes it miraculous and the connection to the divine spark in everything. Do you ever take the time to celebrate the fact that you are alive and able to use all your senses to connect with every thing that exists, including you?   
Rather than put it as a "to do" in your planner, stop for a minute now and tune in.  

I invite you to feel the tingling energy coursing thru your body,  in every cell and particle of your being.  If you have the will, sit in front of a mirror and look into your eyes to see the wisdom and immenseness of your soul.  See yourself as the biggest expression of your divinity and be awemazed  at the infinite grandeur of your essence.  

Then expand even more and know yourself as the All That IS, the creator of your life and experiences.  Smile like the Mona Lisa, with the knowing of the mysteries and secrets of contentment and well being.  

And BE in the stillness, as the stillness, poised on the brink of new adventures  but reveling in the peace and abiding unconditional love of All There IS in the now

I really resonate with the singer Kirtania and I hear her song Life from the album the Offering as I write this.  You can hear a clip by clicking here  
 Life is a pretty great place to be
if you don't mind mystery,
if you can keep an open mind,
and dance when the coals are burning hot,
and forget them when they're not,
and just move with the energy.
And revel in the sunshine when it's on your face.
And put a layer on when winter takes its place.
 ......for we are connected at the source
and life will take its course
and bring us into unity.
 ....when in love and light and grace
we begin to take our places
and each do what we came to do.
It doesn't have to be the way it's always been.
We can break the patterns now and start again...
In love, a very sweet place to be
if you don't mind harmony,
if you can keep an open heart
and dance when the coals are burning hot
and forget them when they're not
and just move with the energy - of life.
 I hope you will join me and feel for your own life what I am experiencing as I am eagerly anticipating the big reveal when I see what each next moment unfolds.  
​It's like a surprise party hosted by the omniverse.  
Right now I choose to be in time and space and enjoy the divine frequency of Happy Birthday to ME!