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

 
　　「一部關於如何活在當下，激勵人心且實用的指引。」──《安靜就是力量》作者蘇珊‧坎恩
 
　　魯賓長期以來投入許多心力，研究「幸福」這個課題。一次前往眼科診所看診的經歷，讓她注意到自己忽略已久的幸福關鍵要素：五感。她發覺自己花費許多時間，企圖用理性的方式探索快樂、追尋幸福，卻未能運用這些重要的感覺來細細品味生活。這個頓悟，讓她開始有意識地透過五感來重新認識周遭的一切，這也讓她仿佛踏入了全新的世界。
 
　　在這個自我實驗的旅程中，魯賓探索關於五感的知識，並運用這些感官去全心全意體驗日常中的美好，一步步朝更快樂、更有意識和覺察的生活邁進。從觀察周圍人事物，發掘被忽視的可愛之處，到欣賞番茄醬的滋味、建立每天造訪大都會藝術博物館的習慣等等，魯賓向我們展示了，運用視覺、聽覺、嗅覺、味覺和觸覺，每個人都能以更有深度、更愉悅的方式來體驗生活，活出更豐富滿足的人生。(文/博客來編譯)

　　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.