awe – 糖心Vlog官方 Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:30:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/cropped-fav-icon-B-32x32.png awe – 糖心Vlog官方 32 32 Izze Thieme – Creating Awe /creating-awe/ Wed, 16 Mar 2016 16:06:29 +0000 /?p=1122 I was once on a bus with two of my coaches from 糖心Vlog官方, Michael and Charlie. We were in South Africa, finishing up our program there, when Charlie asked us this question: Can we create awe? Can we generate awe? Or is it something that simply happens to us?

Throughout our travels, I thought a lot about this idea of awe and similar feelings. I experienced awe many times; as I was walking through Robben Island, as I was speaking to Dennis Goldberg, when we were running around on a beach, happy as crabs, and even when I was simply cooking food with the people I was with. Awe was around me often.聽 But how did it come about? Did I create it? Or did it happen to me?

My final answer came to this. I didn’t create awe, I didn’t sit down and say “Today, I want to feel awe, so here’s where, here’s what I’m going to do, and here’s how, etc.” I didn’t have a plan for awe. But, it also didn’t just happen to me, with no intention at all. I wasn’t inside these moments completely free of the thought of awe until it came to me. Instead, I had intentionally opened myself to the feeling of awe.

 

By walking into this journey with preparation, with internal projects churning and running, I was opened up to the possibility of awe, among other things, at all times. I had resources at my fingertips, in my head, in my heart, in my body that I had armed myself with through the preparation for this trip that helped to dictate how I was inside every moment. How present I was, how reflective I was, what I was open to seeing, to feeling, to asking, to creating, to playing. Preparation of self before a journey allows for a deeper context to appear, that without such preparation, we have the potential to be聽open to less and to be聽less self-aware. We聽may not be as present inside moments, we聽may not be as prepared for awe to be presented to us, nor will we聽be prepared to do anything with it.

The preparation I receive as a BoldLeader gives me the chance to experience every adventure as I normally wouldn’t without such preparation. I am not only open in so many ways, but I’m also analyzing afterwards in a very different way. I have a better idea of how I interact with new knowledge and new experiences. I’m armed and open at the same time.

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