Sturm and colleagues operationalise awe as a repeated practice rather than a singular exceptional event. Sixty healthy older adults were randomly assigned to weekly fifteen-minute awe walks or control walks for eight weeks, with emotional reports, daily surveys and photographs recorded throughout. The study’s striking result is that awe did not necessarily diminish through repetition: participants completing more awe walks showed larger gains in awe, joy and prosocial positive emotion. Photographs became behavioural evidence, with self-size and smile intensity used to track the “small self” and positive affect across time. Methodologically, the design connects intervention, recurrence and visual data in a compact longitudinal structure. The work bridges emotion research, environmental exposure and social connection, while revealing an important distinction between momentary and persistent effects: awe itself remained context-bound, whereas prosocial affect showed more durable accumulation. Repetition therefore transforms emotional experience without requiring simple habituation or monotonic decline.