Keys to 'waking up' your joy

Experts reveal that engaging your 5 senses is the fastest, easiest form of mindfulness, which can boost joy and peace in seconds!

With everything you have going on this summer, you feel as though time is flying and your anxiety is soaring. The good news? The key to taming tension is at your fingertips.

“Harnessing our five senses makes us more engaged with life,” says happiness researcher Gretchen Rubin, author of Life in Five Senses. Psychologist Renee A. Exelbert, PhD, Director of The Metamorphosis Center for Psychological and Physical Change, adds, “To relish our experiences, we have to be intentional with our five senses—they’re the best way to bring us into the ‘now.’”

Read on for easy ways to use the tools you were born with to feel the wonder all around you.

EMBRACE YOUR SENSE OF SMELL

with the 'raisin experiment