Life in Five Senses by Gretchen Rubin

Life in Five Senses by Gretchen Rubin

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, luck, and love: by tuning in to the five senses.

Life in Five Senses invites us into the seismic shift toward a life grounded in sensation, vitality, and innate intelligence.--GLENNON DOYLE, author of Untamed

An inspiring and practical guide to living in the moment.--SUSAN CAIN, author of Bittersweet and Quiet

For more than a decade, Gretchen Rubin had been studying happiness and human nature. Then, one day, a visit to her eye doctor made her realize that she'd been overlooking a key element of happiness: her five senses. She'd spent so much time stuck in her head that she'd allowed the vital sensations of life to slip away, unnoticed. This epiphany lifted her from a state of foggy preoccupation into a world rediscovered by seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching.

In this journey of self-experimentation, Rubin explores the mysteries and joys of the five senses as a path to a happier, more mindful life. Drawing on cutting-edge science, philosophy, literature, and her own efforts to practice what she learns, she investigates the profound power of tuning in to the physical world.

From the simple pleasures of appreciating the magic of ketchup and adding favorite songs to a playlist, to more adventurous efforts like creating a daily ritual of visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art and attending Flavor University, Rubin show us how to experience each day with depth, delight, and connection. In the rush of daily life, she finds, our five senses offer us an immediate, sustainable way to cheer up, calm down, and engage the world around us--as well as a way to glimpse the soul and touch the transcendent.

Life in Five Senses is an absorbing, layered story of discovery filled with profound insights and practical suggestions about how to heighten our senses and use our powers of perception to live fuller, richer lives--and, ultimately, how to move through the world with more vitality and love.

Gretchen Rubin is a well-known and thought-provoking observer of happiness and human behavior today. Outer Order, Inner Calm, The Four Tendencies, Better Than Before, and The Happiness Project are among her many works, which have all been New York Times bestsellers. Her works have sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide in more than thirty languages, and she has a large print and online following. Gretchen Rubin tackles happiness and healthy habits in her top-rated, award-winning podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin. She's also a CBS News commentator who offers weekly advice on how to live a happier life.

Gretchen Rubin began her legal career as a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor before deciding to pursue a career as a writer. She was born in Kansas City and now lives with her husband and two daughters in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780593442746
ISBN 10	0593442741
Title	Life in Five Senses
Author	Gretchen Rubin
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2023-04-18
Number of pages	272
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