In collaboration with ACCESSMBCT, we are delighted to bring you a Guest Speaker Event from Norman Farb and Zindel Segal, introducing their new book, "Better in Every Sense".

For many of us life has stopped making sense. Super-efficient routines that once served us well now stress us out and a ‘toughing it out’ mindset is only compounding the problem.

In their new book ‘Better in Every Sense’, neuroscientist Norman Farb and clinical psychologist Zindel Segal reveal how the new science of sensation provides the key to doing things differently. By tuning into new and everyday sensations, from the feeling of our feet on a crowded street to the sound of birdsong in the park, we can engage our sensory network and boost our resilience, well-being, health and creativity.

In this Guest Speaker event, recorded in April, 2024, Norman and Zindel share how mental routines confine us to a lack-lustre ‘House of Habit’ and how the emerging neuroscience of sensation provides a solution.

…this book quite simply explains how our brain’s Default Mode Network holds onto habits and how stress blocks out sensations, making that ‘stuck in a rut’ feeling even worse.

They reveal how, by tuning into new and everyday sensations, we can engage our sensory network and boost our resilience, well-being, health and creativity.

Grounded in decades of scientific research and filled with simple exercises and practical mental techniques, their new publication ‘Better in Every Sense’ explores how we can successfully negotiate life’s challenges.

“As someone who works in the mindfulness field, I can see this book providing a valuable addition to mindfulness teachers who would like to further understand (with the evidence base explained) how paying attention to sensations impacts on wellbeing. For those not involved with mindfulness, this book quite simply explains how our brain’s Default Mode Network holds onto habits and how stress blocks out sensations, making that ‘stuck in a rut’ feeling even worse.”

– Sharon Hadley, OMF CEO and Guest Talk Host.

Publication Reviews

A brilliant, user-friendly, and easy-to-implement framework explaining why intentionally tuning in to our senses and learning how to trust them and expand their repertoire in outside-the-box ways-what the authors call ‘sense foraging’-is profoundly liberative and healing, revolutionary, and yet totally commonsensical.

– Jon Kabat-Zinn

When you are feeling stressed or stuck, how do you relate to your life? In ‘Better in Every Sense’ the authors take us through the science of tools to get out of the ‘house of habit’ and offer ways to re-engage with your life. A wonderful new book by Norman Farb and Zindel Segal. Fascinating, thought-provoking, and so useful in these trying times.

– Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real Life

These two highly trained and highly skilled professionals have got the chops – and the goods – to help you genuinely upgrade your life!

– Dan Harris, author of 10% Happier

View the publication:

Published in the US by Little, Brown Spark – view here

Published in the UK by Yellow Kite Books – view here

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