What are the 12 senses of Embodied Awareness?
According to ancient Egyptian traditions, we use our five senses along with seven more subtle senses to helps us awaken Self awareness, in order to wisely respond to both inner and outer experiences. Those senses are:
- Sight.
- Sound.
- Touch.
- Taste.
- Smell.
- Feeling the transmission of energy perceived as a clairsentient ‘gut feeling’ or ‘felt-sense’
- Transmission of emotions, perceived as a telepathic, empathic feeling in our heart, implies our ability to both send and receive emotional impressions.
- Transmissions of ideas perceived as awareness of another’s intentions, a silent inner voice, word or thought; clairaudience.
- Inner seeing and vision, which includes clairvoyant pictures or images, memories, dreams and symbolic impressions.
- Spiritual discernment and direct knowing – allows us to perceive a sense of karmic causes and effects leading us to liberation from karma.It is guided by a deeper sense of what is ‘right’, based on an inner sense of direction, in contrast to making a decision based on a ‘moral judgment’ of right-vs-wrong.
- Intuitive perception of patterns that extend beyond time and space awards us with everything from creativity and innovative-creative problem solving, to premonitions, de-ja-vu and precognition, to predictions or prophecy.
- Realization, (also known as satori, nirvana, enlightenment, Self-realization, or self-actualization), is a refined spiritual sense that awakens you to the realization of what you are here for; and, who you truly are as a spiritual being occupying a human body. This is Embodied Awareness.
Our nervous system and brain convert molecular vibrations, light, sound and thermal waves into electrochemical neurological signals that form our perception of smell, taste, sight, sound and touch. This symphony of sensory input along with other, often unconscious, energetic signals, evoke the kind of awareness we in the Western cultures most commonly refer to as “our intuition”.
Our bodies are receiving stations mediating between outer physical reality, and input from subtle inner signals, including: emotions, thoughts, felt-senses, and other intuitive perceptions. The synergy of the two – outer physical and inner subtle spiritual signals – help us to become more insightful.
As a more aware person we are able to support creative, new thinking, and mental health, emotional and spiritual maturity to help ourselves, each other, and our environment repair and renew.
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