{"id":324,"date":"2021-05-13T14:36:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T13:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rostennyson.info\/w\/?page_id=324"},"modified":"2025-07-16T17:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:44:10","slug":"using-our-senses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rostennyson.info\/w\/facilitator\/using-our-senses\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Our Senses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cOur senses are capacities of our being, capacities that are constantly active within us<\/em>
\n and capable of considerable development to make them more active.<\/em>
\n It would be of great significance for mankind if we really took our senses as our teachers\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

from THE TWELVE SENSES, Albert Soesman<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"13We often speak of there being five senses \u2013 and it was one of the bonuses of training at drama school that I spent a whole term of acting classes exploring each of these (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting) in considerable depth \u2013 perhaps that is where my interest in the senses as organs of cognition comes from.<\/p>\n

We also commonly use the term \u2018sixth sense\u2019 to mean something known by intuition or instinct (ie by means beyond the realm of our five senses).<\/p>\n

<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Sense<\/strong><\/th>\nMy Description \/ Interpretation<\/strong><\/th>\nType<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Touch<\/strong><\/td>\nUnderstanding boundaries between \u2018self\u2019 and \u2018other\u2019<\/td>\nPHYSICAL SENSES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Life<\/strong><\/td>\nVitality, growth, well-being, decay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Movement<\/strong><\/td>\nImpulse to change position, direction, shape<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Balance<\/strong><\/td>\nStanding, navigating in relation to surroundings<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Smell<\/strong><\/td>\nDiscernment eg between \u2018good\u2019 and \u2018bad\u2019<\/td>\nSOUL SENSES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Taste<\/strong><\/td>\nA gateway to what enters the body<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sight<\/strong><\/td>\nSeeing and interpreting images<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Temperature<\/strong><\/td>\n\u2018Hot\u2019 and \u2018cold\u2019 in emotional as well as physical terms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hearing<\/strong><\/td>\nInternalising sounds from outside<\/td>\nSPIRIT SENSES<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Language<\/strong><\/td>\nGiving expression to what is within<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thought<\/strong><\/td>\nInterpreting and articulating what is \u2018true\u2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Self \/ Ego<\/strong><\/td>\nWho one is \u2013 individual uniqueness<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

An understanding of the 12 senses can add new depths to training and facilitation approaches \u2013 even if only in the trainer\u2019s awareness of their own and their trainees\u2019 latent capacity. Some of the exercises and techniques I use have undoubtedly evolved out of my interest in cultivating more \u2019roundedness\u2019 in those I am working with \u2013 in which the senses play a very significant part.<\/p>\n

Beyond these 12 senses, however, I believe there is a 13th sense. I would describe this as a sense of \u2018knowing\u2019 \u2013 rather more that the \u2018sixth sense\u2019 referred to above and closer to a form of clairvoyance. Anyone who has experienced this sense of knowing will understand what I mean even though it is hard to explain.<\/p>\n

The actual word \u2018sense\u2019 has a range of meanings. Chambers Dictionary defines the word \u2018sense\u2019 as:\u00a0faculty of receiving sensation; consciousness; inward feeling; mental attitude; understanding; feeling for what is appropriate; soundness of judgement; that which is reasonable\u00a0\u2026 and more.<\/p>\n

The use of the word to mean both something that is \u2018sensory\u2019 and something that is \u2018sensible\u2019 is an interesting one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cOur senses are capacities of our being, capacities that are constantly active within us and capable of considerable development to make them more active. It would be of great significance for mankind if we really took our senses as our teachers\u201d from THE TWELVE SENSES, Albert Soesman We often speak of there being five senses \u2013 and it was one of the bonuses of training at drama school that I spent a whole term of acting classes exploring each of … Read the Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":29,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-324","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rostennyson.info\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rostennyson.info\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rostennyson.info\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rostennyson.info\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rostennyson.info\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.rostennyson.info\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/www.rostennyson.info\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/324\/revisions\/653"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rostennyson.info\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rostennyson.info\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}