Exploring Your Senses with Gretchen Rubin

Live Happy Now

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Health & Fitness:mental Health, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Every day we’re surrounded by sights, sounds, and smells — but we often take them for granted. This week, host Paula Felps is joined by New York Times bestselling author Gretchen Rubin, to talk about how tuning into our five senses can make us happier and healthier. Her new book, Life in Five Senses: How exploring the senses got me out of my head and into the world, takes a deep dive into what each of our senses has to teach us and explains how we can explore them to improve our well-being. In this episode, you’ll learn: How dialing into our senses can reduce anxiety, boost productivity, and spark creativity. The connection between our senses and memories. Using our senses to stay grounded and live in the present moment.

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0:00.0	Thank you for joining us for episode 412 of Live Happy Now.
0:07.7	When's the last time that you really experience the sights, sounds, and smells of the world
0:12.6	around you?
0:13.7	Well, this week's guest is here to help you do that in a whole new way.
0:18.9	I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I am so excited to welcome back
0:22.7	New York Times bestselling author Gretchen Rubin. Her latest book, Life and Five Senses,
0:29.1	looks at how we can tune into our five senses to become happier and healthier. In fact,
0:34.8	Gretchen shows us how, by dialing into our senses, we can reduce anxiety, boost productivity, spark creativity, and learn to live in the present moment.
0:44.5	And that's just the beginning.
0:46.4	Let's find out more.
0:48.9	Gretchen, welcome back to Live Happy Now.
0:51.3	I'm so happy to be back.
0:53.2	Thanks for having me. It has been a minute since we last
0:56.4	talked with you and you've been busy. I have. I've had a lot going on. That's true. One of the
1:02.8	things is the reason we're talking today and that is your new book. You know, this book has just been
1:08.4	such a great surprise for me because it's one you start reading
1:11.7	and it's like, oh my God, why has nobody written this book before? Because it's such a
1:16.9	wonderful experience of diving into our census and your story of why you wrote it is really compelling.
1:22.9	That's a great place to start. Tell us the journey that brought us into this book.
1:27.3	Well, it started on a very
1:28.7	ordinary moment. I woke up with pink eye, which I'm one of these people who's prone to pink eye
1:34.0	and usually goes away in a few days, but this didn't. So I just got myself to the eye doctor.
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