TLC Book Tours Feature: What Every Body Knows About Happiness by Janice Kaplan

 

 

What Your Body Knows About Happiness: How to Use Your Body to Change Your Mind

• Publisher: SourceBooks (January 7, 2025)
• Hardcover: 400 pages

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.

Happiness isn’t just a state of mind. It’s also a state of body.

Standing straight can give you a shot of confidence and forcing a smile might improve your mood. But do you know why? We generally believe that the brain is the big computer telling our bodies how to respond, but new research shows that the system often works in reverse. Your body reacts first, and your brain then interprets the physical signals. As you walk by a dark alley, your heart starts pounding and only then does your brain get the message: I’m scared! The body can also send messages about positive emotions, allowing you to experience more happiness, love, and joy.

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. Talking to experts in a wide range of fields, she brings her distinctive brand of conversation, humor, and storytelling to scientific research, drawing unexpected links that reveal the power of body-mind connections. You’ll also get tips and strategies for knowing your body in a whole new way–leading to greater happiness and pleasure every day.

About the author

Janice Kaplan spent a year living gratefully to write “The Gratitude Diaries” and is delighted that the book has encouraged so many readers to gain a more positive outlook. Her new book “What Your Body Knows About Happiness” brings a new twist to the story, looking at how the powerful body-brain loop influences us in ways we never imagine. It’s full of surprising insights on how you can be happier and more creative every day.

As the editor-in-chief of Parade magazine and the executive producer of many primetime network TV specials, she met and interviewed big stars and political figures. In the novels she has written, she had fun bringing my experiences in these (supposedly) glamorous worlds to my readers. In all her books, her goal is always to make readers happier.

 

I received a copy of this book from the publisher and @TLCBookTours. All opinions about this book are my own. 

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