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Daily Question, October 7

Pick one of your five senses to focus on right here, right now. What gifts is this sense giving to you?

  • Abet

    My sense of touch that even when I am on the verge of my anxiety I can feel my humanity and knowing that I am still fine.

  • Malag

    Hearing the clock ticking centres me, hearing the outside sounds, traffic, birds orients me in space helping me maintain a sense of where I am.

  • Hot Sauce

    Since I’m chewing gum right now, I’ll focus on taste. Something about being able to chew on something with a relaxing mint flavor helps me to focus and feel more productive and less worried. I also love the cool sensation it gives to my tongue and the mildly sweet taste mixed in it.

  • Caitlyn

    Listening. Active Listening. Listening not with the intent to disprove or prove but to learn about the other person. To get curious and seek to understand where the other person is coming from and how you can help one another become better.

  • Dusty Su
    Ahh, I prefer to work from the Four Rooms of my being. Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and then the five senses within them. So, today, in this exercise I start to work from the emotional room and the sense of TOUCH within that room. I feel emotionally sensitive, touched within when I think of my inability to read well as a young child. Others had the joys of reading and I had at undiagnosed dyslexia, which left me on the outside. When I think of the amazing works I could have been a...

    Ahh, I prefer to work from the Four Rooms of my being. Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and then the five senses within them.

    So, today, in this exercise I start to work from the emotional room and the sense of TOUCH within that room.

    I feel emotionally sensitive, touched within when I think of my inability to read well as a young child. Others had the joys of reading and I had at undiagnosed dyslexia, which left me on the outside. When I think of the amazing works I could have been absorbing. I feel this in the pit of my stomach. I feel this in my physical heart. My chest tightens. I sit with the discomfort as if being crushed and I mourn my loss.

    I move into the mental room and I rationalize how this state benefited me as I had to adapt, compensate, and create new ways of being that have ultimately served me and others. I became artistic, innovative, understanding of other’s languages and ways of being. My body relaxes. My breathing deepens. My face brightens with a smile. I return to my body and feel the resistance of the keys on the keyboard. I am here and now and I well with it.

    Spiritually, this room becomes easier to inhabit, because my mind, body, and emotions have been recognized, understood, which cause me to open up to deeper truths that appreciating diversity starts with understanding my own range of unique states of being and ways of learning.

    If today was a sight, it would be the soft golden light of the gloaming
    If today was a sound, it would be a gentle river
    If today was a taste, it would that of dark, bitter, rich chocolate
    If today was a smell, it would candied orange
    If today was a TOUCH, it would be the crunch of dried eucalyptus leaves underfoot which when broken brings all the other senses into play.

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    • Caitlyn

      What is the Four Rooms concepts? Is this in a book you read?
      Seems interesting!

      • Dusty Su
        It's a concept I found and have expounded on when I teach how to live a good, well-rounded life, also not to burn out in caregiving. Also, in the end of life to make sure the patient/person is able to have all their needs met on all levels. Basically, it goes like this. We have four bodies of energy or four rooms in our one house, if we spend too much time in one and not enough in others, we'll be in a state of imbalance. THE FOUR BODIES: All bodies are equal and all need to be nourished...

        It’s a concept I found and have expounded on when I teach how to live a good, well-rounded life, also not to burn out in caregiving. Also, in the end of life to make sure the patient/person is able to have all their needs met on all levels.

        Basically, it goes like this. We have four bodies of energy or four rooms in our one house, if we spend too much time in one and not enough in others, we’ll be in a state of imbalance.

        THE FOUR BODIES: All bodies are equal and all need to be nourished, supported, and balanced!

        Physical body: Does not make up more than others. Needs to be pain-free, comfortable, and in a clean, healthy, restful state.
        Spiritual body: Needs to be provided a peaceful, supportive, tranquil space, where one can reflect upon their beliefs and states of being.
        Mental body: The analytical mind craves stimulation, acknowledgement, and to be fed maturely and intelligently.
        Emotional body: The subconscious body is responsible for negative talk or habits taken on either consciously or unconsciously throughout one’s life and these issues may need acknowledging, addressing and to be dealt with.

        It’s important to note that through these bodies we experience great self-worth, pleasure, joy, comfort, love, care, and intimacy with others.

        We’d be wise to tend to our four bodies in a balanced manner in order to be healthier, happier, and do a better job. This may help us to be at peace with our lives and relationships.

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  • Ose
    Right now I am grateful for having the joy of tasting a really delicious tea made of roasted buckwheat. I love to smell the slight spicy aroma and when the soft, beautiful taste unfolds, mmmhhh! Somehow this tea feels especially tender inside the body and in the same time nourishing in a most gentle way. For a moment, it leaves a slightly prickling sensation and a trace of its taste on the tongue, lasting for a little while and prolonging and intensifying the joy in an almost unnoticed way. It ...

    Right now I am grateful for having the joy of tasting a really delicious tea made of roasted buckwheat. I love to smell the slight spicy aroma and when the soft, beautiful taste unfolds, mmmhhh! Somehow this tea feels especially tender inside the body and in the same time nourishing in a most gentle way. For a moment, it leaves a slightly prickling sensation and a trace of its taste on the tongue, lasting for a little while and prolonging and intensifying the joy in an almost unnoticed way. It conjures a silent “thank you” inside of me.

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  • Don Jones

    Hearing… following the sound of a bell into infinity, the awareness that grows through deep, deep listening, the absolute joy of music and song, listening deeply to the pulse of the earth when seated on the ground in stillness. Sensing through vibration and sound of the whole universe in motion. It is bliss.

  • Poo

    I am grateful for all five senses that’s been gifted to me to experience this magnificent space .Today, I want to pick sight ,b’coz to have recieved a gift of waking up next to a loved one seeing their presence,to look around beauty in the nature, very pleasing to see the food colour,texture,to read from a book and my friends text,to be able to share my perspective on daily reflection question and to read others perspectives.

  • Present Moment

    Today my focus is on sight. Despite suffering from glaucoma for almost 30 years I have made due with $store “readers”. Now it’s become difficult to recognise folks at a long distance, or tell if new plants at the back of my fruit forest need water. This evening a masked optician will visit me at home to test my eyes and offer me a pair of professional lenses in frames.. I bow to age and sit in sincere gratitude for the many years I’ve had observing the manifestations of our timeless energy.

  • Lauryn

    I hear the trees rustling in the cool breeze, birds chattering and chirping, cars passing by in the distance, My neighbor shuffling dishes in the kitchen as she says good morning to me. My favorite time of day.

  • Ken

    I listen. I hear. The silence is peaceful. As I sip my coffee I can hear the refrigerator. It’s steady humming is a calming sound. I hear the outside as I know there is still chaos around, things are continuing as normal. The sound of distant traffic, the sound of far off jet planes. I can begin the day now that I have said hello to familiar sounds once again.

  • Aggie

    I choose touch , thru the palms of my hands I feel and discover the world around me. I touch the pregnant belly of my patient to that feel the soft and wet skin of the newborn. I am gentle and caring thru my touch. I love to hug and feel the warmth of my child and partenr. My hands are tools , I work with them , I trust them …..

    • Debra

      Mine too is the sense of touch. It is truly a gift for me as well. Thank you for your beautiful “share”.

  • Zenith

    Sight. I see the morning light and evidence of a new day bright with opportunities. More time to work at becoming a more positive loving being and making this world a sweeter place to be. My sight enables me to do that by the consumption of sites like this and Duolingo.

  • Pollyanna Gladwell
    Last night my 14year-old dog, a Bichon called Puccini, suddenly couldn’t get up from a sitting position. With some help he finally did and very slowly I took him outside. He was unusually agitated, staggering and stumbling and occasionally falling over – although he wasn’t in apparent pain. I called the vet who told me she could meet me at her office later. While waiting, I lay down with my dear little friend and used a technique called T-Touch on him. (T-Touch is for the Tellngton Touch...

    Last night my 14year-old dog, a Bichon called Puccini, suddenly couldn’t get up from a sitting position. With some help he finally did and very slowly I took him outside. He was unusually agitated, staggering and stumbling and occasionally falling over – although he wasn’t in apparent pain. I called the vet who told me she could meet me at her office later.

    While waiting, I lay down with my dear little friend and used a technique called T-Touch on him. (T-Touch is for the Tellngton Touch – you can find lots about it on the Internet.) The agitation left him immediately. I also put some Lavender Essential Oil on a cloth mask (another use!) and tied it around his neck.The vet suspects a vestibular disruption (possibly caused by an ear infection) that is causing loss of balance and I was able to bring him home. I’m now waiting for the blood test results to confirm this. I used T-Touch on him again when we got home and he went peacefully to sleep.

    He is a little better today and finally drank some water, although so far he won’t touch any food. But his tail is wagging!

    So today I am focussing on my sense of touch and the gift of being able to help a beautiful animal that can’t tell me in words what ails him. Blessings on all animals who bring us such joy and are wonderful teachers about unconditional love and acceptance. xx

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  • pkr

    Sight. I can see & enjoy the bright sunlight this beautiful morning. It is like a spotlight on the ever changing leaves on the trees before my eyes. Golden yellows, burnt reds, pinks & brown leaves are gently moving in the wind. Orange, red and purple flowers in the garden at my feet. So so much beauty to take in on this glorious morning. Thank you to the One who makes this all possible. 🙏

  • Michele

    smell- smelling the autumn aroma of my pumpkin spice coffee creamer – perfect October choice:) As I step out onto my lanai and take a deep breath in, there’s a sweetness in the humid air. I’ll be more focused on my five senses today – thanks.

  • Papilio

    Sight – I feel the bright sun rising above the trees and shining on my face even with my eyes closed. I’m filled with joy, peace, and gratitude without any particular reason.

  • Patricia
    My hearing: the tick-tick-tick of our heating system as the house begins to warm after the night's chill, the crunching sound from our dog in the kitchen as he enjoys his breakfast, and now the padding of his paws as he comes in to join his quiet humans in the living room, an early school bus passing by on our woodsy road, my husband's breathing and coffee-sipping while he reads the news online in the chair across from me. All mostly quiet sounds that go too often unnoticed as my attention is ...

    My hearing: the tick-tick-tick of our heating system as the house begins to warm after the night’s chill, the crunching sound from our dog in the kitchen as he enjoys his breakfast, and now the padding of his paws as he comes in to join his quiet humans in the living room, an early school bus passing by on our woodsy road, my husband’s breathing and coffee-sipping while he reads the news online in the chair across from me. All mostly quiet sounds that go too often unnoticed as my attention is in my head and not my senses.

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  • Ed

    Sense of my body’s weight, rising up from gravity. It centers and “grounds” me…literally, actually. From here I enjoy the dancing of all the other senses.

  • Trish

    I smell the fresh air. So blessed to have gorgeous weather in Michigan right now. There is coffee brewing & a very delightful person is making blueberry pancakes. The aroma touches me inside & invites me to smother hot cakes w/ butter & syrup. It’s a good life!

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