Day 16 What's Up Challenge - Share something that is awe-inspiring!

Why is this good for my emotional health and wellbeing?

Reading about or watching awe-inspiring things can have a positive impact on your wellbeing. That feeling of awe, wonder that we get from something – nature, music, art, helps to inspire us, and to appreciate the wonders of this world and our place in it.

How to complete this challenge

What brings you awe?

To identify things that might bring you awe, try to think back to the last time you had goose bumps or the last time you felt small compared to the vastness of time or a place.

Share Something that you think is amazing with a friend or family – nature, space, an activity, performance, piece of music, sea life, a person (from past or present) who inspires you.

Here is some awe-some things you didn’t know about the wonders of our bodies and nature

1. Your brain has approx100 billion neurons (cells) which is about the same amount of stars in the milky-way galaxy.
2. If you stretched out all the blood vessels in your body, they would be 100,000 kilometres long – that’s twice the circumference of planet Earth.
3. You’ll grow nearly 600 miles of hair in your lifetime.
4. Women blink more often than men.
5. Your femur (thigh bone) is stronger than concrete.
6. On Earth, you need heat to fuse metal together, but in space, two pieces of metal will fuse together with only a little pressure.
7. Saturn could float on water, and Mars has the solar system’s biggest volcano.
8. Cows kill more people in the world than sharks.
9. There was an extinct species of penguin that was nearly 7-feet tall!
10. Sperm whales sleep under water in the strangest way – see video below.

Why not start an awe-inspiring playlist, album or journal – to capture all the things that you find awesome and inspiring.
This can help remind us that although we live in a World where we have to deal with daily stresses, it’s also a World where we get to experience wonder and AWEsomeness.