{"id":224183,"date":"2024-04-16T03:20:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T03:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/how-science-can-inspire-peak-experiences-that-improve-well-being\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:18:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:18:35","slug":"how-science-can-inspire-peak-experiences-that-improve-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/how-science-can-inspire-peak-experiences-that-improve-well-being\/","title":{"rendered":"How science can inspire ‘peak experiences’ that improve well-being"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ad_1]
\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\"JSWT<\/div>
\n
\n

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the middle of the last century, the psychologist Abraham Maslow set about investigating<\/a> the foundations of happiness. Interviewing people about their lives, he was intrigued to find that many reported having experienced rare moments of epiphany, associated with \u201cawe\u2026 rapture, ecstasy or bliss\u201d in which \u201call separateness or distance from the world disappeared\u201d.<\/p>\n

Those feelings were often accompanied by a sense of great understanding, Maslow said \u2013 \u201cthe feeling that they had seen the ultimate truth, the essence of things\u201d. He described these as \u201cpeak experiences\u201d<\/a>, and subsequent research confirms these moments can contribute to long-term well-being. Whether we\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

[ad_2]
\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ad_1] NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI In the middle of the last century, the psychologist Abraham Maslow set about investigating the foundations of happiness. Interviewing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}