Hello! This is Cynthia sue Larson,
and today I'd like to talk with you about connecting--
making that connection between your heart, your body,
and your mind. A lot of people talk about mind body spirit,
and they don't realize that there's a really simple way
to bring it all together. And that way
is listening to your senses; really paying attention
to what you can perceive, to what you sense. And the reason that there's
so much special information that comes through this way, I describe in my book,
"Reality Shifts: When
Consciousness Changes the Physical World." I am going
to read a short quote. This is from Tarthang Tulku,
and it's really an important quote, because it brings it together:
"The bridge between the body and the mind is provided by the senses,
some of which are related more closely to the body,
some to the mind. Because of this overlap, the senses
have the potential to help the body and mind work together naturally.
First however, we must acknowledge our senses
and experience them more deeply."
And the reason I find this quote so amazing is because it
drives home that idea that we are really
of the world. Our consciousness even
is much farther extending than just inside of our little head.
Otherwise we'd be that "brain in a jar"
that philosophers sometimes talk about. It's much more than
the limits of our body, because we can actually sense things that
are farther away, and some examples of that I provide in my book, "Reality
Shifts." I'd like to read some of this to you, because if you've never heard about this
research,
it may just blow your mind. Certain tribes in Africa
and South America can identify the position of Venus in daytime.
A few hundred years ago, many sailors used Venus to navigate by
whenever it was above the horizon--even during the day.
Most people today would need some kind of shading or viewing tool, to block the
sunshine in order to find
Venus in daylight, if they're even willing to attempt such a task.
And then the next thing I get into in the book, "Reality Shifts" has to do with
what's called "hyperacuity,"
which means really powerful abilities in sensing.
Hyperacuity is our innate ability to feel heightened sensitivity to
environmental stimuli.
Researcher Eugene Marais showed that people under hypnosis can recognize
differences
between apparently identical pieces of blank paper,
using minute differences, such as small marks,
small creases, tiny irregularities,
and the position of the watermark, which would otherwise go unnoticed.
In this 1922 study, Marais showed
how a hypnotized subject could easily distinguish between twenty
apparently identical snail shells,
or determine who had handled certain objects
by a sense of smell alone.
He devised similar experiments to show that humans have an amazing sense of
direction,
and this finding suggests that the homing instinct and sense of direction of animals
is a natural facility that humans often suppress.
In this chapter, I continue and
can read a little bit more, but I don't want to just be reading to you! I want to tell you
that what I find so relevant about this from my life
is that when I recognize that I probably can sense things more clearly
and more fully that I've thought that I could, then I am able to.
So that's what I want you to be thinking about as I read through this.
"While humans may have developed intellect at the expense of sensory
ability, we can recover sensory acuity.
Some researchers document extraordinary cases of
transposition of the senses, such as the cases
Cesare Lombroso cited in his research 1836 to 1909,
of seeing through the skin of the ear and
nose, and smelling through the chin and heel.
I know you probably don't want to do anything like that.
It sounds a little far out. However, it's nice to know
that consciousness is not just
relegated to what's inside of our cranium.
It can actually extend beyond many of the
artificially imposed limits that we seem to have set for it. This enables us
to be much more in relationship with our surroundings,
including our relationships with other people, with the Earth, with Nature.
And so
there's a little bit more in this section, which goes into high sense perception. I'm just
going to read you that part. I have talked about this before.
"Many doctors are aware that high sense perception
exists, because they use it.
Some healers who feel comfortable using high sense perception (HSP) in their diagnoses
include: Barbara Brennan, W. Brugh Joy,
Dr. Dolores Krieger, Dr. Shafica Karagulla,
and Caroline Myss. Karagulla interviewed many medical professionals
with HSP,
including famous surgeons, professors of medicine,
and heads of departments in large hospitals. Perhaps part of the reason
that we don't realize how sensory awareness
can be heightened is that our senses are so often bombarded
that we rarely notice we've lost some sensual
acuity. We seldom take time
to savor any particular sensory experience,
to relish the way grass feels tickling under our bare feet,
to feel the way the surface of water feels in our bathtub
when we stroke it from above with our palm, or the way our food and drink
tastes
as we swallow it slowly and savor
its subtle consistency, texture, temperature,
and flavor. It rarely occurs to us to delight in the way cold air pours out
of the refrigerator
onto her ankles and toes when we open the door,
or the way we sigh quietly when we sit or lie down.
We don't need to lose our senses of smell, taste, touch, sight, and hearing as
we grow older.
We can refine and develop our senses. Recovering sensitivity is a great way
to feel fully alive. We can improve our sensitivity
at anytime in life, by appreciating how keen our senses are,
and intending that they improve."
Then I include an amazing example in here of Meir Schneider,
who cured his blindness. He was born
with a number of problems including: cataracts, glaucoma,
small cornea, strabismus, astigmatism
and nystagmus. After five unsuccessful
surgeries, he was declared legally blind. At the age of 16,
Meir began the Bates Method vision exercises,
and gradually gained functional vision. He now has a current
unrestricted California driver's license, sees quite well,
and teaches people how to heal their bodies and improve their vision
to the point that wearing glasses is unnecessary. The British writer, Aldous
Huxley, also used Dr. Bates' exercises to recover from a conditional of near blindness.
I'd like you to think about some of your assumptions about
aging. I've talked about that before, too! And recognize that you can do some
very simple things
such as the very straightforward 6 Bates exercises,
which include things like sunning, closing your eyes
as you look toward the Sun, just letting it soak; palming where you put both hands over
your eyes like this, gently,
envisioning dark and so forth. There are four others.
They are very straightforward, and they can powerfully improve your vision as you get
older.
I'd like you to think about how you can develop your senses
to improve the level of synchronicity in your life,
the level of coincidence, reality shifts, and much more.