Close your eyes. Imagine you are in a lush green garden. And get present to the sensations you are experiencing with all different senses – vision, touch, smell, hearing, taste. Describe what you are seeing. How does the breeze feel on your hands? On your face? In your hair? How does it smell? What are the different voices and noises can you hear? Do you hear the birds chirp? The trickle of some water? And how would it taste if you put your tongue out? How does a berry taste that you picked up from an adjacent tree?
Put your palm on the table. And get present to the touch. The temperature, surface, edges, patterns.
Most of us use our senses in an automated way. We are aware of sights and sounds. But not the touch and smell of things around us. Getting in touch with your senses, is an access to opening up your mind. It’s a way to expand your thinking and mental reception.
Everytime I do an exercise to get present to my senses, I feel fulfilled and relaxed. I also get present to the world around me and can understand things better.
What’s your experience?
There’s a restaurant in London, called ‘Dans Le Noir’, if I recall right, that serves food in absolute darkness. The waiters are blind, too.
Apparently, the other senses are heightened, owing to the loss of the most obvious visual; and this change in your other senses makes for quite an experience.
Later,
Sujeet
I was really aghast at the title of this post, more so because it appeared immediately after the post on Budget making it difficult for Software companies. For a moment I thought that this title referred to the FM and i wondered if this would be a fair question to ask?
But then as I read the post, my fears were allayed.
I got the lesson that ‘while the title of the post can really be impactful, the context and the sequence of the post could be equally critical”