with Tracey

When a realignment is in order, the most basic tools of awareness are your best and closest allies. It's a good time to take a breath and have gratitude for your senses. Nothing like the present moment to make you startlingly aware of the beauty that surrounds you. There's an immersive environment waiting for your senses to awaken into that you may have been unaware of only a moment before. 

Your eyes bathed in the nuances of light and shadow, or taking in the colors around you, can restore wonder. The feeling of your breath moving in and out of your body is a blessing you may have forgotten existed. The rhythmic rise and fall of your chest, heavy or light with emotion, is a sensorial touchstone. The sound of wind preceding rain and the audible silence between atmospheric breaths can be a new take on a sound meditation. The tastes of bitter, sweet, spicy, sour, salty, umami are all tonal qualities that play on the tongue like a symphony with a hallelujah chorus. Your sense of smell, a link to some of the deepest parts of your past and the primordial, is a profound connection that can stop you in your tracks and send you sailing, simultaneously.

And finally, the sense that cannot be smelled, felt, seen, tasted, or touched that might exist in none or all of these senses. The sixth sense of intuition. Everywhere and nowhere. Does it exist in the past or the future, or in the ever-present now? Intuition is the sense we are so often trying to discern. It doesn't really matter where, or in what timeframe, it resides. Even without a specific tangible quality, intuition can be a place of deep knowing and belongs to the pantheon of our senses.

Gratitude for the senses is a grounding meditation on the now. It is a realignment and appreciation for what we can truly be in touch with.