Hello and welcome to Happier, a show about how to be Happier!

This week is episode 190, which means that it's a very special episode, and this episode

we will focus on the body.

As part of that discussion, we'll talk to author Jake Napp about his new book Make Time.

I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits, and human nature.

I'm a New York City, and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft, and Elizabeth, you are not

with me in body, Alas, but I do get to talk to your disembodied voice.

That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA, and Gretchen, glad we are

making time to meet together.

Yes, that's right.

And this very special episode is dedicated to the body because happiness can feel like a very

transcendent abstract concern.

But in the end, we experience the world through our bodies, our bodies, color everything

that we do.

Happiness is mental and emotional, but it's also tied to our physical experiences, and today

we're going to focus on the body part.

Yes.

So we'll start with the try this at home related to the body, and it is quite simply.

Just think about your body.

Your physical experience always colors your emotional experience, but I don't know about

you, but it's easy to kind of shunt your body aside and to not think about what it needs

or how you could treat your body better, because people are animals, that's true.

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