Rubin joins The Post’s Well+Being editor Tara Parker-Pope to discuss her new book, “Life in Five Senses,” about the power of tuning in to the physical world and living in the present.

For one thing, our bodies don’t just sense the world around us, we also experience the world inside ourselves. This includes ...

For this book, Rubin was inspired to learn to appreciate the five senses more after a visit to the eye doctor, whose offhand remark about detached retinas made her suddenly realize how much she ...

She'd written bestselling books on the topic ... and that walk showed me, it was my five senses. That was what was missing. That was the way that I could get that direct contact with the world ...

Happiness expert Gretchen Rubin's latest book explores the benefits of embracing the five senses for experiencing more joy and presence. Rubin’s doctor told her that day that her extreme ...

Rubin is the author of many books, including The Happiness Project and The Four Tendencies. In her latest, Life in Five Senses, she takes a kaleidoscopic lens to the sensory inputs of her own ...

“Never before had I experienced the world in such intensity,” Rubin writes in the introduction to her latest book, Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses got Me Out of My Head and Into ...

Our five traditional senses might seem straightforward ... Ed told me, “I start the book with this thought experiment, to imagine that you’re sharing a room with an elephant and a bee and ...

There are five basic human senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste. The sensing organs associated with each sense send information to the brain to help us understand and perceive the world ...