Senses

Smell

What is your smell? Have you ever wondered what you really smell like? Want to find out? Wash the inside area of your arm with warm water, no soaps etc. Wash it a few times and dry with a paper towel (non scented). Now leave your arm bare for a few hours so that your natural smells/oils can arise to the surface of the skin. After the few hours take a good sniff of your skin – move along the arm taking in the smells. Do you like your smell? Is it familiar to you? How would you describe your scent?
Do you smell of the food you eat like onions, garlic or meats? Is it a metallic or musky smell?

We can smell fear, illness, attraction or wellness. If your smell does not smell "good" take into consideration what you have put into your body recently - anything from food to secondary smoke to medications. A simple way to ensure a healthy body scent is to make sure your digestion and elimination processes work well. Eating a vegetable and fruit rich diet and exercising go a long way in creating a healthy scent that expresses your own personal chemical signature to the world.

Listening

Sound streams through our ears and we discern what we want to listen to and what is just background noise. Take a moment and turn your awareness to just listening. Listen for the quietest sounds and then listen to the most distracting sounds. How do you feel? Are some sounds calming while others irritating?

Now let’s support the ears by washing out the whole mechanism that hears, listens and discerns the inner and outer realities for you. Take a deep breath and close your eyes. Now on your next deep breath ask your ears what colour or colours they want to wash out residual sounds/noise. Take the first colour or colours that you perceive and imagine them coming from the universe directly into the ears and begin to wash them out. Allow yourself to take as much colour as your ears want. Do not hold on to the sounds or interpret what the sounds/noise are about. Just allow them to flow out. Wonderful. When you feel you have completely washed out your ears take another deep breath and open your eyes.

Has the quality of your listening changed? Do you feel more peaceful?

Touch

We all want to be touched. Take a moment today and bring your palms together, gently touching each other. Feel the heat, the texture - the left hand seeking the right hand and the right hand seeking the left. Now slide your palms up and down, allowing your self to feel the sensual quality that comes from touching. Continue doing this for a few moments, you may want to close your eyes. What do you feel? Let the energy extend out from your palms, you may feel it as heat or a tingling sensation.

Breathe, stay connected to your feelings. You can play with this heightened sensitivity in your hands by touching your face, feeling the contours, the smoothness of your skin. Imagine that as your hands touch your face it is the divine touching you, getting to know you, feeling who you are in a body.

Let your hands be the hands of a lover, a parent, the divine touching you - let them be your hands loving you!!! Have fun.