Sharpen your senses, please!
In schools, we are taught that we have only 5 senses... I believe it's a highway robbery! When we counted them as a group in my last course, we found a lot more. The trick is that all of those senses, listed below, need activation, they won't be automatically available to us if something doesn't trigger them... I believe it's our duty to help our young ones to experience the full range of their sensory apparatus!
Here is what we have accounted for:
1. Hearing
2. Sight
3. Smell
4. Touch (pressure on the skin)
5. Taste
6. Sense of time (knowing what time it is & how much time passed since the beginning of some activity)
7. Sense of safety
8. Sense of danger
9. Sense of rhythm
10. Sense of water (to find underground source)
11. Electroception
12. Nociception (ability to discern pain or pleasure)
13. sense of belonging (or sense of 'home', 'community', 'the beloved')
14. Equilibrioception, - the sense of balance
15. sense of body awareness (dexterity)
16. sense of humor
17. enjoying or hating smell (one of the basic 5 senses is only about the ability to smell; this one is about discerning the quality of it)
18. sense of style (of fashion and esthetics)
19. sense of direction (topographic intelligence)
20. sense of comfort
21. sense of appropriateness
22. sense of acceleration (and/or speed)
23. Intuition
24. Sense of Trust
25. Clairvoyance
26. Prorogation (sense of needing to stop doing something)
27. sense of sentience
28. sense of audience (+ sense of camera for actors)
29. sense of Self, self-identity ('I know who I am')
30. sense of wellbeing (independent, internal, regardless of what's going on around)
31. sense of being able ('I can do it!')
32. sense of in-capacity ('I can NOT do it!')
33. Telepathy
34. sense of temperature (if we are hot or cold)
35. sense of doubt
36. sense of self-discipline (life-style choices)
37. sense of one's boundaries
38. sense of justice, fairness
39. sense of suspiciousness
40. sense of dignity
41. sense of loss
42. sense of longing
43. Sense of grief
44. sense of entitlement
45. sense of autonomy
46. sense of congruency/harmony
47. sense of meaning (comprehension)
48. sense of authenticity (own and/or other's)
49. Common Sense (my favorite! - but not very common)
50. sense of acceptance (self or others)
51. sense of hierarchy
52. sense of culture (+ historical sense)
54. sense of bonding (with family, places, friends, etc)
55. sense of attachment (to a person, place, object, situation, etc)
56. sense of one's Personal Power
57. sense of overwhelm
58. sense of shame
59. sense of guilt
60. sense of responsibility
61. sense of freedom
62. sense of reality
63. financial/ business sense
64. sense of purpose, meaning of Life
65. sense of relief
66. sense of satisfaction
67. sense of elimination (a sensation that a trip to the toilet is due)
68. sense of survival
69. sense of volume
70. sense of beauty
71. sense of inappropriateness
72 sense of being cheated on, being lied to
73 sense of coherency (unified field)
74 sense of being watched
75 sense of compatibility
76 sense of composition (to place objects, in a drawing, etc)
77. sense of connection (with other people, places, etc)
78. sense of body language (own and /or other's)
79. sense of enlightenment
80. sense of coordination (in dancing, sports, etc)
81. sense of seasonal rhythms & moon cycles
82. sense of numbers and their relationships
83. sense of self-control (emotional aspect)
84. sense of spaciousness
85. sense of urgency
86. sense of the Elemental Forces (Water, Fire, Earth, Air, Metal)
87. sense of voice (in vocal tones)
88. Veracity - a sense of Truth, rightness, goodness
89. sense of satiation
90. sense of gravity
91. sense of compliance
92. sense of boredom
93. sense of distance (how far or close is the object)
94. sense of tension (in the air, in the body, in relationship)
95. sense of thirst
96. sense of tiredness
97. sense of ease
98. sense of having enough/abundance
99. sense of nonsense, wrongness
100. sense of recognition, familiarity
101. sense of satisfaction
102. sense of self-image (physical)
103. sense of hunger
104. sense of independence, sovereignty, autonomy
105. sense of Deity (connection with God(s) and its influence)
106. sense of completion
107. sense of Gaia (connection with Earth)
108. sense of gender
109. sense of lack ('it's not enough for me', 'I'm missing out on it')
110. sense of regret
111. Perfect pitch
112. Reading energy
113. Claustrophobia
114. Imagination
115. Empathy
116. Integrity
117. Sense of Fear (all types)
118. Love (all types)
119. Arousal (sexual)
120. sense of language
121. sense of loneliness
122. Proprioception
123. Magnetoception (sensing Earth's magnetic fields, like birds)
124. Conscientiousness
125. Confidence
126. Perception (psychic)
127. Soul-Awareness
128. Self-awareness
129. Audio perception
130. Inspiration (sense of inspired certainty; feeling creatively inspired)
131. Sense of hopelessness
132. Abstraction (sense of something vague, unidentifiable, absent-minded)
133. sense of symmetry
134. sense of agency (sense to make a particular choice of action)
135. sense of maturity
136. sense of non-verbal communication
137. sense of someone's presence
138. sense of reading between the lines
139. sense to automatically hold one's breath if the face goes under the water
140. All phobias...
141. Sense of separation
142. Sense of different colors (to know blue from yellow, etc)
143. Sense of different flavors (to discern vanilla ice-cream from raspberry)
144. Sense of different shapes and lines and their compositions
145. Sense of being an outsider ('I don't belong here')
146. Sense of having to/needing to procreate, to have a child
147. Sense of absence (of a beloved, a community, etc)
148. Sense of morality, ethics, appropriateness
149. Sense of being conscious
150. Sense of being lied to
151. Sense of expansion (perceiving the big picture; cosmic state of heightened awareness)
152. Sense of Bliss and ecstasy
153. Sense of timing ('it has to be done now', or 'it's not a good time for it')
154. Sense of religious commitment
155. Sense of National pride
156. Sense of group identity (professional/geographical/by hobby/love of animals, etc)
157. Sense of inflated/fragile Ego
158. Sense of being offended
159. Sense of being violated/abused/taken advantage of
160. Sense of angelic presence
161. Sense of Hope
162. Sense of jealousy
163. Sense of anger
164. Sense of greed
165. Sense of certainty for the future, that everything will be OK
166. Sense of connection with the Source Of ALL, Oneness
167. Sense of expectation
168. Sense of being lost (physically and/or emotionally)
169. Sense of Attachment
170. Sense of sleep deprivation/need for sleep
171. Sense of Pride
172. Sense of Attraction (sexual and non-sexual)
173. sense of emotional pleasure
174. sense of sexual revoltion ('I'd rather die than have sex with that person')
175. suicidal sense
176. sense of a 'dead end' (in situations, relationships, projects, etc)
177. 'YES' sense
178. 'NO' sense
179. Sense of multi-dimensional connection with the unseen worlds, other realities, parallel universes, past lives, etc
180. Sense of one's Healing Powers
181. Sense of worry
182. Sense of numbness, the absence of sense, atrophy
183. Sense of auspiciousness
184. Ikigai - sense that this Life is worth living
185. De Ja Vu
186. need to vomit
187. Sense of self-worth (adequate estimations of one's value)
188. Sense of un-worthiness, low self-esteem, misalignment
189. Inflated Ego, Narcissism (over-estimation of one's importance)
190. Sense of magic, awe
191. Sense of bewilderment
192. Sense of powerlessness
193. Sense of Excitement
194. Sense of Grace
195. Sense of clean ('I can stop grooming myself now', sense of clean sheets on a bed, etc)
196. Sense of dirty (I feel dirty, I need to groom myself, I need to clean my space)
197. Sense of laziness
198. Sense of sleepiness (have to go to bed now)
199. Sense of emotional burn-out, feeling off, vulnerable
200. Sense of Chaos, disarray
201. Sense of Visual Perception (not just the ability to look, but the ability to see
202. Sense of lucidity
203. Sense of velocity
204. Spacious awareness
205. Sense of speed
206. Sense of size
207. Sense of age
208. Paranoia
209. Pranoia
I am sure there are more. Please, fill in the blanks for yourself and share with me your ideas).
All of these senses are a given, come with the package, so to speak, but they need consistent activation during the formative period. Otherwise, they atrophy pretty early in Life. Let's make sure that our children benefit from our new awareness and can be guided lovingly to enjoy this full range of their sensory wealth!
(I wish I was taught the sense of time when I was young... I used to be late everywhere. Got punished a lot, of course, and guilt-tripped, but was never actually taught... - wouldn't that be nice?)
Elena
April, 2012