Let’s explore, discover, and have fun with the five senses today.   

Sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.  Mmm, wait, let’s have fun with the six senses!   Include your intuition, too.  That “gut” instinct.    The joy of acting on that inner whisper and experiencing a synchronous magical moment.  

Ok, sight.    As you read this, I would like you to pause, stand up from where you are sitting, and look straight ahead and around as far as you can without turning your body at the waist.   Think of it as if you are facing east.   What do you see that you haven’t looked at lately?   Truly looked at even if you’ve noticed it or your eyes have glanced at it every day?  

 Now, wait.   Don’t sit yet.   Now turn 45 degrees left or right, as if a compass now facing north or south depending on which direction you turned.   Repeat the same observing, the same sense of sight.   What do you see that you haven’t lately?    Let your mind drift with the memory of why you set what you now see where you did.   Why it matters to you.   Touch the meaning of what you are looking at.    Let the feeling of what you are seeing gently put its hand against your heart. 

Now turn another 45 degrees to the “west”. (Maybe you aren’t literally facing west, but I know you get the idea.){smile}    Repeat.  What do you see?   Maybe your view now includes looking outside.   What is looking back at you from outside or inside?  Listen.   To what you are thinking as you look at the sights in front of you.  Listen to your body as you feel in response to what you are looking at.    What are you hearing that is in partnership with what you are seeing?  

I know you know what’s next (smile, wink).    Ok, now you are facing your last direction.   Directly north or south depending on which way you turned from east in the beginning.    What are you seeing you haven’t noticed lately?   What do you smell at this moment? 

Are you seeing something that stirs a memory?   Associated with what you are looking at?  Or a seemingly random memory, though since I don’t believe anything is a coincidence, I might be inclined to say that “random” memory is offering you a message to hear.   To touch.     What about taste?   Just by reading that question asking you about taste as you face north or south, what are you now craving or hungry for? (Smile, grin).    What memory can you now see related to something you were tasting?  

Ok, now turn and find yourself full circle back to the East.     Back to the direction in which the sun rises.   A new day.   New beginnings.   Seeing in new ways.  

Have you explored and re-discovered something you had forgotten.   Did you discover gratitude or joy seeing something you hadn’t noticed lately?   What about the thoughts that came?  Did any of them offer a planted seed of something to do?   I haven’t talked with so-and-so in a few weeks.   I should text (or call or write.   Now you’ve tapped into your sixth sense!  That intuition.  Gut!  That inner whisper.     And what makes this so magical is you may just find when you send that message you receive it’s so funny you called.   I was just thinking about you.  

Happy senses day!