Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Let’s focus on our wondrous senses this week. Do you think you exploit your body’s unlimited potential? That you pay100 percent attention to it? That you are aware how many possibilities it has for providing enjoyment even at our age? 

The first step to awaken your body and mind is a 2-minute body scan, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head, first thing every morning while still lying in the bed. Be grateful to each body part and each sense for what it does. At this stage of life all our senses need help to continue functioning: eyewear, hearing aid, dentures, replaced knee or hip. 

Perhaps most of everything else that mother nature provided you at your birth is in working condition. Whatever is not used to its fullest, begins to atrophy. However, if you remind yourself what the body can still do, impose a regimen of disciplines on body and senses, then pay attention to the sensory orchestra it can be enjoyable and encouraging. You may even grow a bit stronger, a little more mindful of inner landscape and outer surroundings. And in time may surprise yourself.

If you don’t meditate or walk, begin by meditating and walking for 10 minutes a day. Then add weekly increments of 5-minutes to meditation and 10-minutes to walking. No problem if you skip a meditation or walking session. If you already meditate for 15-20 min. daily and walk 1-3 miles a day, kudos! Follow this regimen and feel good about yourself.

With its five senses and the mind, the body tries to obtain as much information as our sensitivity allows. Find sufficient sensory skills to delight in what your body can do. It is through the body that you connect with your outer as well as inner worlds. Refining your senses neither requires money nor talent. It simply needs your attention and time to improve the quality of your life. 

When the senses are constantly cultivated to the best of your ability, you are better able to enjoy finer things in life – art, nature, music, food, literature, friendships and the divinity within. Once developed well, they replace the trivial and spiteful. It is up to you to improve the quality of your life, and to grow emotionally, creatively and spiritually.