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The Mindvalley Podcast

Reduce Anxiety Instantly with These Easy Techniques from #1 NYT bestselling Author Gretchen Rubin

The Mindvalley Podcast

Mindvalley

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Today on The MIndvalley Show, we dive into the world of your five senses with author Gretchen Rubin. Her ninth book, Life In Five Senses, gives you the tools to ease anxiety and unlock happiness by tapping into the experience of the senses.  Noise, smell, touch, sight, and taste all have the power to alleviate stress and bring you back to the center. Gretchen teaches you how to enhance your environment with items that awaken your soul. By understanding your unique associations with each sense, you can clear your environment of overwhelming sensations and create a space that keeps you at ease. Getting in tune with your senses will help you with productivity, and relaxation, and can even bring you luck. Gretchen shares how she discovered how to ground herself by honing in on a single sense to cope with overwhelming situations.  Join us for an inspiring conversation about the power of the senses and how you can create a more joyful life.    Key Takeaways: [1:30] What inspired Life in 5 Senses  [3:00] Appreciating your senses  [5:15] Easing anxiety with your 5 senses [8:00] Clearing the sound around you  [12:18] Feeling out of touch  [14:28] Positive associations with taste [16:10] Evoking memories with smell   Where to Find Our Guest: Life in Five Senses  GretchenRubin.com   Memorable Quote: “This is precious, let’s not take it for granted, but really go out of our way to amplify, because when we dial into our senses, there’s so much delight, there’s so much connection, there are so many memories that come from it.” [4:50] -Gretchen Rubin To stay connected and to learn more about Vishen and Mindvalley, click on the links below:  Website: Mindvalley.com YouTube: @vishenlakhiani Instagram: @mindvalley Instagram: @vishen Facebook: @mindvalley   Subscribe to 'Mindvalley Membership' to discover 65+ transformational Mindvalley programs – at a surprisingly low annual fee here 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/NOW     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back everyone, I'm here with the incredible Crutch and Root, author of nine books

0:11.6

on a wide diversity of different topics ranging from the human experience to happiness.

0:17.1

Crutch and Root is one of the most celebrated writers of our generation, and her newest

0:21.2

book is called Life in Five Census.

0:24.4

How exploring the census got me out of my head and into the world.

0:29.2

In today's conversation, it's going to be about how to apply this concept of fully embracing

0:34.8

your five census for the purpose of overcoming anxiety, anxiety hits us all.

0:42.2

And I was just telling this to Grutch and in the past five hours, just before making

0:46.7

my way to the studio here in New York to record this episode, I had two friends message

0:51.8

me.

0:52.8

One was going for surgery to remove a tumor on an eyeball and you can imagine the anxiety

0:57.4

that she must be going through.

0:59.2

Another was facing anxiety and was asking me to recommend a good brain doctor.

1:04.2

So he could understand why he was facing this paralyzing fear.

1:07.7

So frequently, anxiety is quite normal.

1:10.4

If you face it, you want to be paying attention to this conversation.

1:14.1

Grutch and welcome to Mind Valley.

1:15.6

I'm so happy to be talking to you.

1:17.9

So let's talk about Life in Five Census.

1:20.2

Firstly, tell us what made you write this book?

1:22.6

You know, I just had this feeling.

1:23.9

I think a lot of people share it where I was just like up in my head.

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