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Daily Question, July 5

What are the senses through which I experience the greatest aliveness? When are they most alive?

  • Christina

    My eyes. I have been staggered by the sheer beauty of the world around me: the sun flooding my front room in the morning, the billowing curtains in the breeze; the Hamptons; strikingly attractive men, women and children. So often the beauty I see includes wind and sun.

  • grateful sea

    Superlatives confound me these days. I wish I could remember when I have felt the greatest aliveness. But I cannot. I can only think of now. The aliveness of this morning -- all senses engaged -- sitting on the back porch watching the sun rise, or more accurately, the rain fall. Damp chill all around. Warmth of candle flame wafting towards me, feeling it on my cheek. Sweet fragrance of melting beeswax. Tang of hibiscus tea persisting on the tongue. Nearness of a hummingbird: pearly bl...

    Superlatives confound me these days. I wish I could remember when I have felt the greatest aliveness. But I cannot. I can only think of now. The aliveness of this morning — all senses engaged — sitting on the back porch watching the sun rise, or more accurately, the rain fall. Damp chill all around. Warmth of candle flame wafting towards me, feeling it on my cheek. Sweet fragrance of melting beeswax. Tang of hibiscus tea persisting on the tongue. Nearness of a hummingbird: pearly blur of wings and tickle of their vibration deep inside my ear, their flutter through my heart. Watching bubbles rise up clear column of liquid as hummingbird sips from feeder. In the now, and now, and now of these I feel alive. Thank you for this question.

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  • Deb

    Which ever sense I am experiencing with awareness at any given moment. This is true with the bodily, physical senses but also the inner senses that Trevor wrote of.
    It comes down to moment to moment awareness for me.

  • Anonymous

    The inner senses. When the mind is still and begins to pierce through the physical world of the five senses into another world, a place beyond having a sense of me, mine, and I.

    “Our bodies have five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. But not to be overlooked are the senses of our souls: intuition, peace, foresight, trust, empathy. The differences between people lie in their use of these senses; most people don't know anything about the inner senses while a few people rely on the...

    The inner senses. When the mind is still and begins to pierce through the physical world of the five senses into another world, a place beyond having a sense of me, mine, and I.

    “Our bodies have five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. But not to be overlooked are the senses of our souls: intuition, peace, foresight, trust, empathy. The differences between people lie in their use of these senses; most people don’t know anything about the inner senses while a few people rely on them just as they rely on their physical senses, and in fact probably even more.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.

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    • Gina

      Thanks , Trevor…very interesting when considering the senses….

    • Diane

      Trevor....I can't thank you enough for your words. They resonate strongly with me. While I am grateful beyond measure for the gift of my "five senses" I also have the desire to "fine tune" what the author has referred to as the "senses of our souls". These are the senses that, it seems to me, bring an extra dimension of richness and quality to our lives. but we need both an awareness that they are inherent within us and also a conscious effort to embrace and nurture them....they don't necessar...

      Trevor….I can’t thank you enough for your words. They resonate strongly with me. While I am grateful beyond measure for the gift of my “five senses” I also have the desire to “fine tune” what the author has referred to as the “senses of our souls”. These are the senses that, it seems to me, bring an extra dimension of richness and quality to our lives. but we need both an awareness that they are inherent within us and also a conscious effort to embrace and nurture them….they don’t necessarily come naturally like our other senses.. I don’t know if I’m articulating exactly what I mean but just writing this has inspired me to be more mindful of my soul senses.
      Thank you for that Trevor.
      ~Blessings

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    • Gargi

      Thank you beautiful

  • Gargi

    In the kind embrace of a child, or a mother engulfing the child do I sense great aliveness in my life, but more than that when I feel the safe heaven of refuge or getting an answer to something so painful and irrational as a presence or a open space do I come alive, hence the depth of my mind as a sense. Sensing beyond all things great and small good and bad beautiful and ugly, knowledge and ignorance is the ever present seed of that which gives it existence makes me come alive.

  • Michael

    the sense of hearing…when I hear Eric Thomas speak, or Kamal my friend preach, or a Malcolm speech, or a song that brings positive chemicals into my brain, or the sound of real laughter. sight as I read things that bring focus, clarity, inspiration, thought, learning. I don’t know hahhhh the taste of a really good chili relleno is up there hahhhhh!!!!

  • Michael

    Oddly perhaps, the first thing that comes to mind is touch. A cooling breeze on a hot and humid day, our beagle on my lap on a cold winter evening., a hug with my wife. Even when someone does us a favor, we call it touching.

  • Always Learning

    Maybe an offbeat response, but here goes… “common sense.”
    ????
    When I use it, things are much richer in life. I apprehend better, react better, and appreciate what is going on.
    ????
    When I am “common sense free,” I overreact, assume, over analyze, and worry myself into a frenzy.

    • Deb

      I appreciate offbeat! Common sense makes alotta sense!!

  • Kevin

    Whenever I am holding my camera, my eyes begin seeing anew and my heart begins feeling what I hope to capture as an image. Walking about at dawn, or sitting somewhere, anywhere, just looking around, with or without my camera, is the time when my senses are the most alive for sure.

    Just yesterday, at exactly five weeks post-op from lower back surgery, I slowly and carefully dipped into the ocean for the first time this summer. It was a symphony of the senses all firing at once — for touch a...

    Whenever I am holding my camera, my eyes begin seeing anew and my heart begins feeling what I hope to capture as an image. Walking about at dawn, or sitting somewhere, anywhere, just looking around, with or without my camera, is the time when my senses are the most alive for sure.

    Just yesterday, at exactly five weeks post-op from lower back surgery, I slowly and carefully dipped into the ocean for the first time this summer. It was a symphony of the senses all firing at once — for touch and skin, the sea-sounds, sight lines and briny ocean aromas. Feeling the need to be cautious I lasted one minute and it was grand.

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    • Ose

      Congratulations for this grand sparkling experience of “newborn” physical and emotional joy! And so good to hear you are still careful, but on your way to good health and vitality again. Wish you many of such beautiful refreshing and strenth- giving, joint sensual joyful moments and full recovery.

      • Kevin

        Thanks very much, Ose. I hope that things are well with you these days also. My best to you!

    • Gargi

      How I see myself as if present there while you narrate your experience. In other words seeing what coming alive is, as I struggle to bring my sense to see no difference between spiritual and non spiritual as there is no distinction only in our mind. Thank you

  • Debbie D

    It is hard to pick. The top two would be seeing and hearing. Hearing Latin music while dancing Bolero has been the most alive I have ever felt in my ENTIRE life! Next looking at children’s art or abstract expressionism.

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