Something happens when you dive into a world where clocks don’t tick and inboxes don’t ping. As your arms circle, swing and pull along the edge of a vast ocean, your mind wanders, and you open yourself to awe, to the experience of seeing something astonishing, unfathomable or greater than yourself. Studies have shown that awe can make us more patie

awe increases happiness and lowers stress.

“Time feels thicker. It’s made out of stuff. It’s made out of people and things that are in it. It doesn’t have as much of that ‘empty grid of minutes’ kind of feeling,” she said. “When you start to think of time in more collective ways, trying to leave behind the individual time banks, it opens up the horizon of what’s possible in your and others’