Life in Five Senses, Gretchen Rubin
Life in Five Senses, Gretchen Rubin
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Life in Five Senses
How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World

Author: Gretchen Rubin

Narrator: Gretchen Rubin

Unabridged: 7 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/18/2023

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

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.

“An inspiring and practical guide to living in the moment.”—Susan Cain, #1 New York Times bestselling 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.

*Includes a downloadable PDF of additional resources from the book

About The Author

Gretchen Rubin is one of today’s most influential observers of happiness and human nature. She’s the author of many books, including the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers Outer Order, Inner Calm; The Four Tendencies; Better Than Before; and The Happiness Project. Her books have sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide, in more than thirty languages. She hosts the top-ranking, award-winning podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin, where she explores practical solutions for living a happier life. Raised in Kansas City, she lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephanie on May 19, 2023

I've read--and enjoyed--nearly all of Gretchen Rubin's books, but this was a letdown. For me, this book failed to deliver on its two-fold promise: informative look at the five senses and examination of personal experience. The information presented is extremely superficial, relaying facts most peopl......more

Goodreads review by Janssen on January 23, 2024

Loved this one and included it on my summer reading guide [URL not allowed]-sum.........more

Goodreads review by Krista on February 02, 2023

I’d been trying to figure out what was missing from my life, and that unforgettable walk home from the eye doctor revealed the answer:I needed to connect with my five senses.I’d been treating my body like the car my brain was driving around town, but my body wasn’t some vehicle of my soul, to be o......more

Goodreads review by Rebekah on May 13, 2023

In which an intense type A person attempts to become observant. With bonus glimpses of disordered eating. As an observant person who is often overwhelmed by my senses, it was interesting to hear someone completely different from me attempt to notice everything in her daily life by taking classes and......more

Goodreads review by Lauren - on January 21, 2024

Using my five senses to ground and still my mind has always been my primary coping skill and way to be more present. I love how Rubin's writing is so approachable and applicable! She doesn't just say what works for her- but gives hundreds of ideas from friends and research too for how our individual......more

Quotes

“Right now, what the world needs most is people who have come to their senses—who have reunited with the power and wisdom of their bodies. Gretchen Rubin’s Life in Five Senses—woven with research, practice, and a compelling story—invites us into the seismic shift toward a life grounded in sensation, vitality, and innate intelligence.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed and founder of Together Rising
 
“Life in Five Senses is a great opportunity to spend time in Gretchen Rubin’s inimitable company. But it’s also an inspiring and practical guide to living in the moment. Many books have tried to teach us the power of the present. But Rubin creates her own tools and forges her own path—one that readers will surely want to follow.”—Susan Cain, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet and Quiet

“Gretchen Rubin always helps us notice the seemingly small but vitally important aspects of life that make us happier. In this fascinating exploration of our five senses, she shows us how paying closer attention to our daily experience of the exterior world can shift our interior worlds in remarkable ways. . . . A delightful treat, in every sense (pun intended)!”—Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

“What a wonderful wake-up call! Thanks to Gretchen Rubin, I’ve been noticing more, savoring more, tasting and smelling more—and it’s made my life far more interesting. My only regret is that I read the ebook of Life in Five Senses instead of the hardcover. I missed the chance to feel the paper, hear the sound of the pages flipping.”—A.J. Jacobs, New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically

“A charming journey through the science and experience of fully engaging your senses of smell, taste, touch, sight, and sound.”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast Re:Thinking

“We see, but how often do we really see? We taste things, but how often do we really taste things? Life in Five Senses opens us up to the hidden beauty of the world by allowing us to see and feel in high definition. By using all our senses like we have used them before, we can feel a deeper connection with our own existence and resonate more deeply with the existence of others.”—Scott Barry Kaufman, author of Transcend and host of The Psychology Podcast

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