Happier with Gretchen Rubin Happier with Gretchen Rubin: Stop and Smell the Happy
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Mar 25, 2015 AI Snips
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Use Smell For Instant Pleasure
- Embrace pleasant smells deliberately to get a quick, cost-free mood boost any time of day.
- Smells provide immediate pleasure without time, money, or calorie costs so notice them more often.
Skunk Smell Became A Love Trigger
- Elizabeth describes how her partner Adam's fondness for skunk smell now triggers affection for him whenever she smells skunk.
- That odd personal association shows how scent can create lasting emotional links to people.
Smell Connects Present And Memory
- Smell ties you to the present because scents are fleeting and experienced in the body right now.
- Smell also ties strongly to memory, producing Proustian recollections that deepen emotional experience.