I picked up this book after hearing one of the authors—I can’t remember which one—on the ‘Hidden Brain’ podcast, and the book did not disappoint. Farb and Segal call upon new understandings of the significance of the senses in brain function and behavior to outline new ways of getting yourself unstuck when old ways of thinking and behaving are no longer working. Habitual thought and behavior—what they call the DMN, default mode network—are necessary to survival and day-to-day functioning, because humans could not use conscious thought to perform every daily task: brushing your teeth, driving to work, fixing dinner. But overreliance on the DMN can result in a life void of meaning, feeling, and ultimately, satisfaction. The book outlines ways that engaging the senses can enriched and deepen people’s experience of life, reigniting passion and shaking up patterns that have become too rote and predictable. For me, recent experiments with forest bathing demonstrated the usefulness of some of these techniques of shaking up life and thought. Well worth a try for anyone who feels as if they are languishing or just wants to deepen engagement with the world.