WEBVTT - Indulge your neglected sense

0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:09.400
<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.

0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:16.800
<v Speaker 1>This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:22.320
<v Speaker 1>tip is to indulge your neglected sense. If you are

0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:25.400
<v Speaker 1>less likely to notice and rely on one of your

0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:29.840
<v Speaker 1>five senses, you can become more mindful of the world

0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:37.280
<v Speaker 1>by consciously creating experiences for that sense. Today's tip comes

0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:42.800
<v Speaker 1>from Gretchen Ruben's new book Life in Five Senses. Gretchen,

0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:45.400
<v Speaker 1>who is best known for the book The Happiness Project,

0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:51.720
<v Speaker 1>spent some time exploring seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, and smelling

0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.320
<v Speaker 1>to see if she could become more aware of the

0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:59.760
<v Speaker 1>world around her. Among other things, she learned about creating

0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:04.520
<v Speaker 1>pers she tried to blindfold a dinner, and she visited

0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:09.720
<v Speaker 1>New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art hundreds of times. As

0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:13.679
<v Speaker 1>part of all of this, she developed a quiz that

0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:18.880
<v Speaker 1>helps people figure out their neglected sense. This is the

0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:22.000
<v Speaker 1>sense that you are less likely to turn to or

0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:25.880
<v Speaker 1>find ways to enjoy. I took this quiz a few

0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:30.520
<v Speaker 1>weeks ago and learned that my neglected sense is touch.

0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:33.760
<v Speaker 1>I'm not sure I would have guessed that, but I

0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:37.120
<v Speaker 1>guess it could be true. I often wear very drapy

0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.360
<v Speaker 1>clothes so I don't have to feel much of anything

0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:44.479
<v Speaker 1>a lot of the time. In any case, you can

0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:49.040
<v Speaker 1>take the neglected Sense quiz at Gretchen Reuben dot com

0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:54.040
<v Speaker 1>backslash quiz when you find out what your neglected sense is.

0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:59.120
<v Speaker 1>Gretchen suggests finding ways to explore this sense and to

0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:04.280
<v Speaker 1>create new experiences. For instance, with touching, it might mean

0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:08.400
<v Speaker 1>taking time to pet a pet, or shopping in a

0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.040
<v Speaker 1>brick and mortar store so you can actually feel the

0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:14.520
<v Speaker 1>objects rather than just look at pictures of them online.

0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:18.560
<v Speaker 1>She suggests even doing some out of the box things

0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:22.120
<v Speaker 1>like buying kinetic sand to play with. I'm not sure

0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.360
<v Speaker 1>I'm going to do that. I don't want to vacuum

0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:28.560
<v Speaker 1>it out of my rug, but I do appreciate the idea.

0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:32.520
<v Speaker 1>In general, thinking more about our senses can help us

0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.840
<v Speaker 1>experience the world in new ways. For instance, I know

0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:41.480
<v Speaker 1>that scent has an incredible power to conjure up memories,

0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.880
<v Speaker 1>so when I'm doing something that I would like to remember,

0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:50.120
<v Speaker 1>I sometimes see if I can associate a scent with it.

0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.280
<v Speaker 1>I went to a hotel on a lovely vacation once

0:02:54.919 --> 0:03:00.959
<v Speaker 1>that had distinctive orange smelling soaps and shampoos. I took

0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.520
<v Speaker 1>a small bottle home so that when I sniffed it,

0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:09.800
<v Speaker 1>I could remember. Sound can do that too, particularly in

0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:13.840
<v Speaker 1>the case of music. If you would like to remember

0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:18.640
<v Speaker 1>an experience, play a certain song over and over in

0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.720
<v Speaker 1>the course of it, and you will likely be able

0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:25.480
<v Speaker 1>to conjure up the memories anytime you hear that song

0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:31.240
<v Speaker 1>in the future. What senses do you use most often

0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:37.280
<v Speaker 1>and which senses do you neglect? Take Gretchen's quiz to

0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:40.840
<v Speaker 1>find out, and then check out Life in Five Senses

0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:47.400
<v Speaker 1>to learn more about such exploration. In the meantime, this

0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:51.800
<v Speaker 1>is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making the

0:03:51.880 --> 0:04:02.080
<v Speaker 1>most of our time. Hey, I'd love to hear from you.

0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:05.000
<v Speaker 1>You can send me your tips, your questions, or anything else.

0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:09.320
<v Speaker 1>Just connect with me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at

0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:14.200
<v Speaker 1>Before Breakfast Pod. That's b E the number four then

0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:18.240
<v Speaker 1>Breakfast Pod. You can also shoot me an email at

0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:22.960
<v Speaker 1>Before Breakfast Podcasts at iHeartMedia dot com. That before Breakfast

0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.640
<v Speaker 1>is spelled out with all the letters. Thanks so much,

0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:33.839
<v Speaker 1>should I look forward to staying in touch. Before Breakfast

0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:38.200
<v Speaker 1>is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio,

0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:42.400
<v Speaker 1>visit the iHeartRadio, app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen

0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:48.840
<v Speaker 1>to your favorite shows.