Open Your Senses with Gretchen Rubin

Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins

Dr. Amy Robbins

Healing, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Death, Consciousness, Wellness, Life, Deathanxiety, Mentalhealth, Spirituality

4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

How much of the world are you truly sensing?

Gretchen Rubin, an influential observer of happiness and human nature, joins me to talk about her latest book, “Life in Five Senses”, which explores how opening up to your senses can bring more magic and meaning to your life.

She shares how a simple moment at the eye doctor sparked her curiosity about the senses and led to the writing of this book. This conversation will leave you with valuable insights and practical tools to appreciate and enhance your sensory experiences.

Topics We Discuss:

[01:56] Tapping into our five senses.
[04:08] Facing death to appreciate life.
[07:34] Our sense of smell.
[14:25] Drawing closer through taste memories.
[15:09] The power of taste and memories.
[19:30] Enhancing life through senses.
[22:07] Five senses portrait.
[25:07] Summer memories and senses.
[29:49] Consistent practice and transformation.
[33:04] Using smartphones to improve focus.
[36:12] Animals' extraordinary senses.
[39:59] Life, death, and the space.

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Take her Five Senses Quiz: “What’s Your Neglected Sense?”

Gretchen’s book, “Life in Five Senses” is available on Amazon. (affiliate)

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0:00.0	We experience the world through this sensorium, which is all of the, all of the senses working together.
0:04.3	They really, they really coordinate in the brain to try to like help us have the richest picture.
0:10.0	And I think just as people meditate on death as a way to make themselves value life,
0:14.8	I think confronting the possibility of losing my senses made me realize how much I wanted to appreciate my senses so much more than I did.
0:31.0	I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to life, death, and the space between.
0:36.6	Today's conversation I know will bring so much insight, knowledge, and practical tools
0:42.6	that you can bring to your life now.
0:45.5	And my guest is one who I'm sure many of you have already heard of.
0:50.4	Gretchen Rubin.
0:52.0	Gretchen is one of today's most influential and thought-provoking observers of happiness
0:57.0	and human nature.
0:58.5	She's known for her ability to convey complex ideas from science to literature to stories
1:04.0	from her own life with levity and clarity.
1:07.3	She's the author of many bestselling books, such as The Happiness Project, Better Than Before,
1:12.5	The Four Tendencies, which have sold millions of copies in more than 30 languages, and her most
1:19.2	recent book, Life in Five Senses.
1:23.1	Welcome, Gretchen.
1:24.1	I'm so happy to be talking to you today.
1:26.4	Thanks for the conversation. I'm so happy to be talking to you today. Thanks for the conversation.
1:28.7	I'm so honored to have you here and so excited to talk about this book because one of the
1:35.2	things I talk about in this podcast is how we can really live a more full, meaningful life.
1:42.1	And you use the five senses to do that. Can you tell all of us what got you thinking
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