Sensorily Freed

While we might be more familiar with articles on navigating sensory fraughtness, I am always peacefully delighted by the beauty and bliss available when we allow our senses to be filled with the other end of the spectrum.

From hyacinths drifting into our noses, to getting your fingers deep into the furriest of rugs, to keeping the sun on our skin for a moment longer while we can.

Letting our bodies experience that full sense of goodness and pure bliss, when our minds don’t need quieting because we have been carried over the edge into a moment of simply letting go.

With the beauty, the emotions and sensations that come from feeling deeply into our senses, we can be delighted and filled with goodness, as our brain circuits light up our pleasure centres and signal to the body that, just for now, everything is safe.

Just now, you are okay.

And just now, you can enjoy this experience in all its fullness and simplicity.

Gradually, here, the heart and mind can begin to fall back into sync, and homeostasis can begin to take over the body with a deeper, more knowing rhythm of calm—belonging to a stillness that our bodies know how to create when given half a chance.

Finding the ways that work for us, allowing us to let go into even a small moment of happiness, can open new ways of being, thinking, and feeling—ways in which we experience ourselves in the world, that might otherwise have been hurried past or left unopened.

What directions might your pleasure-seeking curiosities take you?

A little list to spark the imagination:

• Breathing in the sea air and noticing the brightness of the mist

• Feeling the smooth, stony rounds beneath your fingers and toes on a pebble beach

• Running your hands through long tassels or soft grasses

• Soaking your toes in warm water set aside just for you

• Pampering the skin of your face with a few simple touch points—easing tension in your headspace, feeling your stomach unclench, and your shoulders begin to soften

Surely you are worth setting aside a few moments for. As life continues busying itself outside, perhaps one of these moments could be just for you.

Image created by Yulia Gapeenko