How to Use Our Senses to Connect with Others and the World
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In This Episode, You'll Learn:
- How to utilize our five senses to more deeply connect with the world
- Why exploring the world through your senses to experience life more vividly and playfully.
- How sensory experiences are a meaningful way to connect with others.
- Keeping a “5 Senses Journal” as a useful tool as a form of appreciation
- How to elevate everyday moments with heightened sensory awareness techniques.
- Why sharing impactful sensory memories with others can foster deeper connections
- Understanding how sensory environments shape behaviors and decision-making processes.
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| 0:00.0 | In general, we are wired for sight and so it has the most real estate in the brain. |
| 0:04.8 | And often when there's a conflict among senses, sight wins. |
| 0:16.3 | Welcome to the one you feed. |
| 0:18.3 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have. |
| 0:22.8 | Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think. |
| 0:27.3 | Ring true. |
| 0:28.4 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:32.7 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:37.4 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:40.3 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:43.8 | But it's not just about thinking. |
| 0:45.8 | Our actions matter. |
| 0:47.2 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:52.0 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, |
| 0:56.4 | how they feed their good walls. |
| 1:12.3 | I'm Jay Shetty and on my podcast on purpose, I've had the honor to sit down with some of the most |
| 1:16.8 | incredible hearts and minds on the planet. |
| 1:19.2 | Oprah, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Hart, Louis Hamilton, and many, many more. |
| 1:24.8 | On this podcast, you get to hear the raw real-life stories behind their journeys and the tools they used, |
| 1:29.4 | the books they read, and the people that made a difference in their lives so that they can make |
| 1:33.4 | a difference in hours. |
| 1:34.9 | Listen to on purpose with Jay Shetty on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your |
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