If we have lost the childish desire young children possess, to understand or know something; asking why and how, curious to explore possibilities.
Wonder usually declines with age but it doesn’t necessarily have to. Wondering helps us to be aware and appreciate everything around us more fully and it might encourage thinking about different possibilities in your world.
There’s reason to believe that we can regain and maintain wonder at any age. It’s also beneficial to help young people hold on to their wondering. Encourage it rather than shut down the inquisitive mind of ‘how and why.’ Instead, we should be embracing wonder to continually grow and expand for an entire lifetime.
Without wondering, we would not have scientists, inventors, and explorers to advance our worlds.
Every minute we have, seems to be consumed. Sometimes we assume doing nothing would be boring and instead, prefer to distract ourselves with anything, rather than allowing ourselves to just sit and wonder.This aligns with research showing people will do almost anything to avoid boredom but wondering is far from boring. However, are we losing the art of letting our minds wonder. We are conditioned to grabbing our mobile devices to pass every spare second. It has become a habit, leaving no time to be present in the moment to just sit and wonder about what we see, feel, expect, desire and have yet to discover.
It’s a great time to encourage children to wonder because there’s so much to wonder about with your children no matter where you are. Filling your time full of wonderment is engaging, pleasurable and interesting.
Observing others, your surroundings, being aware of our senses of touch, smell, sounds, sight and taste are a great way to engage wondering. How, when, why, who and what are words to start wondering in your mind or to encourage others.
Thanks to research by Frank Keil Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at Yale University there have been studies about wondering and the benefits it offers our wellbeing. I read about this research a while ago and have enjoyed wondering since. Here are some simple ways you can help revive and maintain your sense of wondering and if you are reading this while on holiday in Noosa, it’s the perfect time and place to start wondering.
Ask yourself: what have you learned, noticed, thought about in the past few weeks that has changed your opinion, view or understanding of something or someone? Take time to think about what changed your mind, thought process or reactions.
It takes your mind to a new sphere of thinking, imagining and just wondering with a deeper appreciation for what you experience in the moment.
To me, wondering is noticing things that you may have missed, had you not purposely decided to wonder.
Ask yourself how that can be or what makes that happen? It’s a great way to start a conversation with someone and majority of people enjoy sharing information about what they know. No matter what age you are, wondering with a question will expand your mind.
While travelling, waiting, resting, in company or on your own. Go outside, surround yourself with new environments while you wonder about life in the space.
An airport is a great way to wonder about the people, the way they are dressed to travel to their destinations. Where are they going, who are they meeting, it’s often emotional yet we don’t know these people, but we can wonder about their connections and life.
Escape your world to explore the same world differently. Where one question leads to another, and you find the opportunity to un-puzzle life.
Through documentaries, books, google searches or attending shows and events. Broaden your wondering horizons, introducing opportunities to explore a variety of stimulus to wonder about.
Letting your mind slip away does not have to be about deep breathing or guided meditation. It can just be de-railing your mind to wonder about something beyond your world.
Becoming inventive, excited, and challenged to seek information, answers or pursue creative ideas.Try wondering. Put away your mobile, be in the moment, open your mind to wondering.
Wonder becomes addictively fascinating.
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