July 2025: Life in Five Senses
📖 Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World by Gretchen Rubin
❓ What's this book about❓
A journey of self-discovery exploring how engaging the five senses can lead to a happier, more mindful life.
“Our senses can help us cheer up, calm down, live in the moment, experience more pleasure and energy, deepen connections, and even touch the transcendent. The five senses are like our Swiss army knife for cultivating happiness and well-being!”
📘 Why this book❓
Summary:
”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.
For more than a decade,
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 shows 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.”
🤔 QUIZ‼️ What’s Your Most Neglected Sense❓
Of your five senses, this is the sense that you least often turn to for pleasure or comfort.
Even if you’re highly sensitive, you may not spend time exploring or cultivating it.
Take the Five-Senses Quiz from the author to discover your neglected sense and use this self-knowledge as a shortcut to a richer life.
📚 Book Club Meeting Details
Join us for an engaging discussion on:
📖 Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World by
🗓 Date: July 10, 2025 (*Note date change due to the 4th of July holiday in the US*)
🕛 Time: 12:00-12:45 PM EDT
📍 Live, Virtual Event
I look forward to an engaging discussion with our Book Club members on ways to make “sense” of our brain health in everyday life.
“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.”
