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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gratitude Diaries, What Your Body Knows About Happiness is your ultimate insight into the body-mind connection, guiding you to a happier, more pleasurable life.
Based on groundbreaking research and expert opinions, What Your Body Knows About Happiness will teach you
How to use your body to spark your creativity
How to find joy through your senses
How changing your environment can improve your mood
The unexpected powers of diet, exercise, and sex
The ways your brain can resolve bodily pain
How to create optimism through your body
In What Your Body Knows About Happiness, Janice Kaplan, the New York Times bestselling author of The Gratitude Diaries, explores the startling new evidence showing that our feeling bodies are often smarter than our thinking minds.
Introduction
The Science of Happy BodiesWhat Your Apple Watch Can’t Tell You
How Your Body Makes You Happy
Your Mixed-Up Mind
How Your Senses Give You Joy
The Best Places on Earth to Be HappyWhy Blue and Green Are the Happiest Colors
Places That Make Your Spirits Soar
Why Wine Tastes Better in Paris
The Unexpected Power of Sex, Exercise, and DietWhat Body Positivity Really Means
The Happy Body Food Plan
How Exercise Makes You Happy
How Your Brain Resolves PainЕverybody Hurts (Sometimes)
Pain, Pain, Go Away
Sugar Pills Are Sweeter Than You Think
Why Pleasure and Creativity Come from WithinThe Neuroscience of Invention
How Your Body Makes You Smart
Your Optimistic BodyWhat Language Does Your Body Talk?
The Body-Mind Happiness Plan
Suggested Reading
Acknowledgments
Notes