5 SENSES  make up the BODY MIND.

This is where we begin. One of the first principles of the work is: "Always begin exactly where you are." Where is that? In the present moment, with your Authentic Self. How do you access that? Through your senses: 

Sight  seventy percent of the body's sense receptors are focused through the eyes

Smell affects our hormones

Touch is a biological necessity

Sound is energy that can lift objects ("acoustical levitation")

Taste is the final arbiter.  

Did you know there are 4 Tastes?  Salty, Sweet, Sour, Bitter. 

 

EXAMPLE: "SENSORY WALK"

Just pick one thing to focus on - smell, sight, sound, taste, or jump right in with all of them!  You could find a blade of grass, not just how it looks, but you could take a bite out of it, or how does it smell, how does it feel? Or even sound, and you'll decide what that is! You might rub it with your fingers, or the wind on it. You're open to letting it express itself the way you find it. And the next time you might find it differently, because it's a different blade grass. It's a different thing growing - a different shade of green, what is the season?  There's an infinite variety in all the senses that can be experienced on a sensory walk. So you just don't walk down the street not present. Because you have to be present, and authentically because you are saying how does this sound to me? How does this smell to me? It's whatever you discover.

 

All of the five senses, in various, highly individual combinations go to make up what we call THE SOUL MIND (Sixth Sense/ Intuition)...

6th SENSE (INTUITION) what I call the SOUL MIND.

EXAMPLE: "TODAY'S WIN"

 

 

I had been going to my granddaughter's art classes in LA called "Mission Renaissance" run by two young people, Monica and Nick, who I thought were phenomenal teachers with marvellous gifts, and they had their concept of "Today's Win". Each child hauled up their picture, this tree etc. And this one day a shy little boy, 4 or 5 years old, said "See that little tiny blue dot?" And I remember the teacher said, "Oh really! How come, why is that today's win?" And he said "Because I wanted to put it there."  Ha! That said everything, didn't it? He didn't say, "Oh because that will make the picture look better", all that 'head stuff'. No, he spoke from his True Self. The dot was so small if someone hadn't pointed it out to you you might not have seen it or thought it was a mistake. But to him, it was "Today's Win".  What is your "Today's Win?"

Intuition in turn is the arrow that zeros in on our instincts... 

 What is that gut feeling or instinct?  That which is primal does not necessarily mean "animal".  However it is developed in your life, much of it depends on wanting to know. There are some people who are more in contact with their instincts, their primal selves.  In some it  may be more repressed, or it may be used incorrectly.  Really understanding what is primal doesn't come from an "idea"; it is alive and well in everybody. 

 

EXAMPLE:  Making Noise - the Helen Keller Story

 

You may access the primal by humming in the car, or making non-sensical sounds (without words), like gibberish, growling, grunting, groaning, howling, hissing, or baby sounds, like blowing bubbles, cries, screams or laughter. All are very primal because they are not about 'thus and so'; they are connected to that instinctual feeling. How does a mother know what a baby wants? Often by the "sound" he or she makes. It is instinctual.

 

Helen Keller is the perfect example. Had it not been for Annie Sullivan, she may have been locked away in a cage somewhere! How did she do that? The first Breakout Moment (aha!) was the feeling of the water (touch), and that opened up, crossed over to other things that she had no access to - she had no sight, she had no sound. Later she was able to make sounds and eventuallly words. It is not possible for us to grasp it. But it shows the potential for what is possible.

 

8th SENSE (MENTAL/CEREBRAL) is the BRAIN MIND. Usually people use this one first, but in this paradigm it comes last. It uses all the information from the previous senses to decide. It becomes the "Great Chooser".

"Nothing will cure the senses but the soul, just as nothing will cure the soul but the senses."

Oscar Wilde