I paused on my way to the Mount Whitney summit in California’s Sierra Nevada, Guitar Lake posing behind me.

I was on an “awe walk,” what Dacher Kiltner, UC Berkeley psychology professor, calls experiences that positively affect our bodies, our relationships with others and how we perceive our world.

You don’t need to climb the highest peak in the continental USA to experience awe, Kiltner advises. It is available all around us, if we only take the time and pay more attention.

Keltner writes about the phenomenon in “Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life.

Read about it on this Huffington Post article.