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Loading... Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the Worldby Gretchen Rubin
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A perfect book to start the new year. Rubin works through one of her senses at a time, trying to enjoy each one to the fullest. She visits the Met in NYC each day. She tries a meal at a restaurant where you are blindfolded. She takes a class on developing your sense of smell. She discovers the taste & visual cues that bring her joy. I love the idea of collecting things that are all one color (hers is scarlet), so you always notice them when you are in a thrift shop or on vacation. I know I’ll be putting some of these tips into practice as I try to deepen my appreciation of the world around me. ( ) Perhaps a string glowing reviews that described Rubin’s work as a life-changing book set my expectations too high. Don’t get me wrong. The book has nudged me into paying more attention to my sensory experiences, a fact that merits at least a couple stars. It even offered several helpful tips for making the most of our senses. But I couldn’t connect with some of her sensory experiments. Other assertions were not exactly "light bulb" revelations (example: our sense of sight can help us to "connect" with people as we share life experiences.) As an expanded magazine article or perhaps even a five-part magazine series, it might have worked for me. As a full-blown book — albeit a slim volume — there simply wasn’t enough “there” there. no reviews | add a review
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. 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 revelatory journey of self-experimentation, she 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 Met 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. A 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"-- No library descriptions found. |
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