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Forme voulue :

    senses?(\b)

Définition :

    [Dans le domaine intellectuel] Conscience intellectuelle générale, faculté de comprendre les choses et d'apprécier les situations avec discernement.

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53 Senses : International edition : Wednesday, 2 December 2009 15:11
GMT : a service of The Public Press
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53 Senses

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"We have fifty three senses? But I can barely handle five!" This
comment from one of my workshop participants got me thinking. How did
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The root of the misconception lies in how overwhelming our lives are
when we operate with just a few dominant ungrounded senses. That
workshop participant assumed the more senses used, the greater her
exposure to stress via over stimulation.
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Think of each of your five senses \!/ Attention ! Mon dictionnaire me dit que cette forme ne correspond sûrement pas au sens recherché ! Mais je peux me tromper... \!/ (taste, touch, smell, hearing,
sight) as a rock in the foundation that supports your home. Five
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support the weight of a second story. A storm might push your home off
such a minimal foundation. The more senses you awaken and use the more
support you will have in all your endeavors. More is better. The more
sensory support you have, the less stress you'll experience. When
stress does sneak up, your sense-ability's wisdom naturally helps you
understand the source of your stress and guides you to what is needed
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quality of human life is directly linked to the quality of one's
relationship with nature via the senses. Michael Cohen, Ed. D., has
devoted 40 years to the teaching and researching sensory
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you took a hike and forgot your water bottle, or maybe you were stuck
on line somewhere after eating a bag of salty chips. That sense of
thirst is real, just as real as the water that will satisfy it. This
is a sense, the sense of thirst. You can't see, taste, touch, hear, or
smell it, but it is real. Without this sense we would not know when
our body becomes dehydrated. Healing our senses is not only essential
to life, but to our happiness as well. Our exquisite sensory nature
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Dr. Michael Cohen, a leader in the field of ecopsycholgy, breaks down
these fifty-three senses and sensitivities into four categories. Just
to give you a quick idea as to your vast sensory potential I've listed
a few senses under each category below. You can find the full list in
Cohen's book Reconnecting With Nature.

FOUR CATEGORIES OF OUR SENSES

1. The radiation senses: sense of color, sense of moods and
identities associated with color, sense of temperature.
2. The feeling senses: sensitivity to gravity, air and wind pressure,
and motion.
3. The chemical senses: hormonal sense, such as pheromones, hunger
for food, water or air.
4. The mental senses: pain, external and internal, mental or
spiritual distress, sense of self, including friendship,
companionship and power, psychic capacity.

These many senses are the real stuff that feeds our body, mind and
soul. Senses and sensations usually feel alien to a modern person
brought up closeted from life's sensory connections. Reason is a sense
unique to our species; however it is no more valuable than the other
52 senses. In fact this sense alone can be our own worst enemy and the
guard at the door of our closet. It might be scary to venture out,
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That winter night I was able to honor my senses by acting on them. I
sensed the freezing temperature on my skin as I got into my car, the
quality of the street lamp's light reflecting on the road, and my
car's motion felt a bit different than expected, affecting my sense of
balance as I steered. I might have sensed stress hormones (adrenaline,
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adrenaline before stopping the car. The adrenaline alerted me to my
sense of fear and dread of injury. Acknowledging the fear, even though
I had no logical reason to be experiencing it, heightened my
sensitivity to the subtle cues and I made a good decision. Once
stopped, my sense of reason put some of the sensory input together and
I confirmed my suspicions by placing my foot on the black ice covering
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Take time to honor your senses. Experience the senses nature designed
for our survival. See how you can ally your dominant cognitive senses
of thinking and reason with the true sustenance only your multisensory
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Thinking Process here, a simple and powerful method used to awaken the
senses).

International Community for Ecopsychology www.ecopsychology.org
www.anaturalsense.com

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Litchfield, CT. She conducts workshops, and publishes a quarterly
e-zine NaturalSense. Her specialty is the healing connection between
humans and the natural world. marlowshami@sbcglobal.net. You may
subscribe to the free NaturalSense e-zine at www.anaturalsense.com.