In a world full of distractions, it’s advantageous to sharpen up our senses. The lesser spoken of: felt sense is like re-connecting to your personal charging station.
When we have a hunch about something, we experience a gut instinct; we choose to follow it or not.
But I’m not talking about whether it be a positive, or negative sensation; I’m talking about the sensation itself: how it feels in your body. How you can learn to recognise such sensations, and utilise them for a happier more functional life.
Personally, I’ve experienced jolts in the stomach, and tingles at the nape of my neck. Yet, wishing to be further aware of this helpful built-in signal box: I started noticing that the tingle sensation spreads across my shoulders. Additionally, I felt a pleasant, electric-like current race through my veins, my cheeks flushed, and my breathing changed.
It is not just in the gut that we experience bodily sensations.
The more aware I grew, and the more I practiced noticing how my body reacts: I became aware of the fuller physiological affect in my body, and other senses. It is like having a clear conscious window into our subconscious, often sleepy minds.
As I tuned further into these feelings, I realised that sometimes I’d experience partial sensations: tingles in my hands, which help guide my decisions-making; I learned to “sit with” the instructions that my body was guiding me on, and more than I’d previously noticed; occurring more frequently, as I became conscious of how my body reacts to differing scenarios.
It is a short-cut to becoming more alert. It is an easy, and pleasant form of mindfulness; It helps instill a higher sense of self-awareness, vastly improved clarity of the mind, and boosts energy levels.
By noticing how the involuntary dots of you work; I believe it is like being back in the driving seat of your intellect. You are fusing your current state of mind, to dormant versions of you, when you trusted your instinct over the plethora of daily distractions.
I hope this is helpful.
SUNNY wishes,
Emma