You can set up environments where just what you touch makes you feel good. And I think more and more people are aware of this. There's there's fidget toys, pop toys, therapy dough. All these things are great as a way to use your hands. But once you figure out what you know, then you can try to avoid the things that feel bad.
Happiness expert Gretchen Rubin was warned that her eyesight was in peril. It shocked her into realising she'd taken all of her five senses for granted - and so she resolved to wring every ounce of joy from the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and textures around her.
Concluding her conversation with Dr Laurie Santos, Gretchen explains how to be more alive to smell, taste and touch - building on the ideas in her new book Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World.
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