Sharpen your senses

Each of your senses offers clues to who you are, where your key skills ly, and which kinds of activities would allow you to experience deeper fulfillment.  The key is to attune to how your body, mind and spirit communicate and to remember how to listen.  Guidance can be helpful.

You may notice that certain among your senses seem more pronounced than others. In other words, each of us tends to use certain senses more often through conscious or unconscious preferences.  This comes naturally for good reason.  You can learn from everything but some ways feel easier than others.  Do you notice your own nuances? How do they clarify life purpose?

Here's a clue: pay closer attention to your chosen words and phrases. What do they tell you about the senses you favor and the kind of person you are inside? Whatever your apparent preferences, it suggests new kinds of visualization or other multi-sensual activities will assist you to progress along a path to further clarify your dreams.  You can build on whatever insight you gain.  Begin with a general review of all your senses.  Identify and explore the extent of your comfort zones.

1) Are you a visual person? These kinds of people focus mostly on the power of observation.  When asked about descriptions, they choose words that favor visual images. Their memories reveal they retain adjectives and think in technicolor.  Artists and Scientists can both be visual.  Many life roles and perspectives benefit from strengths in this area. Consider whether you say things like:

-I’ll have a "blue" holiday without you.

-Business prospects appear to be “looking up.”

-It’s great to meet you “in-person” (put your name “to-a-face”)

-The photograph captured the diversity of vegetation, you "get the picture.”

- Are you “watching” me?

-Colors of suffering (i.e., her face was "green" or "jaundice" suggested hepititis.)

2) Are you more of an auditory type? These kinds of people reinforce sound in rhythm or rhythm.  They also choose words which draw attention to, value and magnify the ears. Composers imagine in musical notes.  Musicians, DJs, singers, and secret code writers and decoders are examples of roles where people apply auditory strengths.  Consider whether any of these echo familiarity:

- I “hear” you loud and clear.

- The last option “sounds” appealing.

-Details just “clicked” into place.

-That name “rings a bell.”

“Listen” to what I’m saying.

-We’re “in sync” or "on the same frequency." 

-It must be some-thing "psycho-log-ical” or may be some-thing very “phys-ical..”

3) Do you consider yourself a tactile (touchy-feely) person? Kinesthetics may be your thing.  You may intuit energy and vibes. You may learn and retain best after carrying out a physical activity.   You may also favor more than one of the senses.  Do you grasp space and motion especially well? Consider how you might apply such skills if the following make sense:

-We’ll keep “in -touch”

- "Feel the heat."

-My heart is "pounding."

- He “felt” that she disagreed.

-Hold the "vibration."

-"Crumple" the paper. 

4) Are you someone who lives through the nose? These kinds of people have extended memories based on olfactory intelligence.  Perfume makers fall into this category.  Spice merchants, cheese makers, wine and other beverage connaisseurs, all have strong nasal memories.  Imagine having thousands of scents inside the tip of your nose! You'd be an encyclopedia of scents.  Maybe you utter things like this:

-Something “stinks!”

-His mind triggered the smell of "grandma's homemade apple pie." 

-I “smell a rat!”

-He detected a “musty odor.”

-Her eyes squinted amidst the "smoke and fumes." 

-The liquid hit his tongue with "the distinct texture of black currents, the tartness of cranberry and a light dusting of cinnamon." 

5) Are you a taste-oriented person? Maybe the most intense memories you retain ooze with flavor and savory intensity.  These kinds of people think with their tastebuds.  Chefs and other people with specialty palettes and have no trouble concocting delicious recipes based on a memory of combined. Ask yourself whether you think with more than your overactive saliva and create descriptions like:

-That was a "bittersweet" moment.

-She looks like a “tasty morsel!”

-That person's temperament is “sour/ sweet/ tangy/ bitter.”

-Do you have a “taste for music”?

-The thought made me “lick my lips.”

-The menu led “my mouth to water.”

6) How does it feel to sharpen your listening skills? As you respond to the questions above, you may begin to realize that when you think you are listening, you are missing a large part of the picture that matters to you.  In essence you are taking in lots of information and filtering it through the mind or feeling things through the heart.  As you learn to quiet the mind, you start to recognize distractions arising and they no longer control you.  Life coaching can empower you.

"There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation." - James Nathan Miller

Deny the power of fear to conceal joy

Within you isn't what you consciously believe is there.  Your invisible core is comprised of what you choose to have faith in.  That's right.  Provided you decide to give no energy to guilt or fear, then they can't survive.  In your mind, you can refuse to believe in them.  What you really want is to deny the power of fear.  It assumes it can conceal joy.  Prove fear wrong.   Choose to spread positive feelings instead. 

In other words, by interpreting fear as the positive affirmation of the hidden love, you undermine the ego's perceived usefulness.  You project fear to hide your limitless source of joy.  How quickly we forget.  What if the only purpose fear has is to cause us to forget the power of love?  Would you permit negative feelings pull a fast one over you? If so, you can always change your mind.  See through the veil.

Rethink each situation or experience where you're tempted to succomb to pain and fear.  Consider what happens when you consciously make an alternative choice.  Interpret in sickness, criticism or wrongdoing against you to be a call for attention, compassion and love.  Offer to others what they seem convinced they're unable to offer themselves.  You will feel more complete as you help others see reason to nurture positive thinking.  Rekindle new faith in yourself and in others.

Understand rubberband?

Rest assured, we can all overcome our own self-created roadblocks and learning handicaps.  We all have areas where our conditioning has impaired our perspective and learning potential.  Of course, you may benefit from additional guidance to progress along a particular, chosen path.  Yet, for the moment, it will be helpful to learn to identify and escape from your own limitations.  Consider these tips:

1) Go through a process of unlearning.  To understand how intuition works and what you're really thinking is very different from accepting how you have evolved to think.  What if your new learning goal was not to learn as you always have, but to become more selective about your sources of information? Imagine that you learned to pinpoint sources and then forget your conditioning.  A supplementary goal is learning why you have decided certain things are believable, certain people are credible, certain perceptions are legitimate. Why do you choose to believe yourself?

2) Discover the power of inner energies.  To be pragmatic and assertive may mean you don't relax enough or have become unreceptive to your inner voice.  To assume you don't have an inner voice may miss crucial opportunities.  You may benefit from reaquainting yourself with your dreams and finding inspiration to use or pursue dreams more constructively. Ask for help if you need it.

3) Remove blockages.  This implies you desire to learn something new and you can accomplish this because you choose to do so.  Consider that you choose to buy into fear, self-doubt and frustration and you can also decide you will not permit these thoughts to control you anymore.  You can discover the power of reverse-conditioning.  Teach yourself that what you thought was true is no longer important or was never the case.

4) Reconnect with the child inside. As a child, you're born with an open mind, the desire to explore, belief in things like magic and fantasy and optimism about possibilities.  As an adult, many people slowly become fearful, begin to focus on limits, and allow cynicism to cloud views.  Why allow pragmatic thinking you create to eat away at your childhood confidence and intuitive voice?  If you've forgotten how to tap into your inner self, you can always seek guidance, re-learn and create a new kind of future.

5) Decide you will no longer attack yourself.  Your learning potential, when well-understood, is limitless.  Society and people around you will tell you why you can't do things.  You project reasons to try to convince yourself that your future must be ambiguous.  Realize the impact on your thinking when you decide what you will believe.  To what kinds of beliefs to you offer your undivided attention? Your investment may deny your reality and the breadth of your potential.

Where have angels touched your life?

When positive things happen, you might wonder who or what had a hand in that? When you stumbled upon that empty parking place, when you arrived in the post office and there was no line until after you were at the counter, or when you found money on the street, you may smile yet still ask why do these things happen to you.  Tell yourself that guardian angels are thinking about your existence.  They will assist you if you ask. Imagine how your life will change, sooner than you think.

Consider a woman who had an order for the courrier.  She had finished packing merchandise late at night and sent an SMS to the courrier's mobile before going to bed.  She requested him to pick the boxes up before 8am.  She awoke early enough to meet him at the door, but he didn't arrive by 7h45 like he had in the past.  She asked her angels to remind him to come.  This order was important and had to go.

Wouldn't you know that he arrived in the driveway with a mis-addressed delivery for her at 8h15.  Turned out the courier never received her late night dispatch to come early for the pick up.  The package she received by mistake had to be re-addressed, re-directed and sent out again later that day.  The courier came back and picked up that and another parcel for the road.  Does this sound like synchonicity? Everything happens for a reason.  Ask and it shall be given. Open your senses.

Time to get a move on

Okay, the sun rises and sets in your mind, and time seems to pass.  Yet, are those things you've been meaning to do really getting done?  If not, perhaps its time to look at your world with different senses?  This doesn't suggest you must trade in what you already have.  Use this opportunity to seek ways to enrich the perception you already have.  Learn to step back.  Address issues in new ways:

1) Think more about what you need to do.  Thinking is the first step to actually doing.  When you consciously repress or put things out of your mind, that isn't going to help you accomplish them.  Overcome procrastination and stop postponing things.

2) Recognize the benefits of making lists.  Some people say they can remember everything they write inside their mind.  In most cases, this technique ins't fullproof. Write on paper and review your list as often as necessary.  It will help!

3) Ask for assistance. Nobody does anything alone.  We're all connected.  We're all inspired by others or we learn from watching, listening and approaching people for advice.  You can too! Be open to alternatives for getting things done.

4) Reward your progress.  As you make headway and get things done, that's reason to celebrate! It can give you a sense of accomplishment to cross things off lists, but why not go a bit further?  After all, you deserve to love and appreciate yourself. It will also motivate you to continue.

5) Acknowledge cycles.  Each person has more and less intense periods of activity.  We take info in and benefit from noticing cycles and phases.  Each time you finish things, its the end of one chapter and the start of a new one. You'll get where you're going one step at a time.  Accept up days and down days.  Your pace will change.  No need to get upset for being slack in the past. Create a new kind of future.