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The big idea: how to use your senses to help beat depression

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Scientists have found that keeping our brains busy isn’t an effective form of relief.

Instead, sensing the world the sunlight on your skin, a gurgle in your belly, the thump of your heartbeat is what enriches and restores us.

People who shut down sensation in response to sad scenes were 25 times more likely to fall back into depression than their peers who kept sensation alive.

Norman Farb is a neuroscientist and Zindel Segal is a clinical psychologist.

They are the authors of Better in Every Sense (Yellow Kite ) Farb and Segal are neuroscientists and clinical psychologists.

With practice, the science suggests, feelings of hopelessness and burnout will abate.