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Smell things on purpose

Coffee, cut grass, the sea, your kid's hair. Stop for two seconds and notice it.

no timeEvidence: worth trying

Smell is the one sense wired almost directly into the brain's emotion and memory circuits, which is why a smell can put you back in a place thirty years ago before you know what happened.

Paying attention to it as a mood tool is a neuroscientist's personal practice, not a studied one. It costs two seconds. Evidence: worth trying

Source: Sandeep Robert Datta, Harvard Medical School, via Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, "21 brain hacks"

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