How other sense experience daily provides us with food: food of the ears, eyes, etc. Are you creating the best nourishment for yourself through your other senses?

Food as we all know is what we eat: we put substance into our mouths and somehow, miraculously the substance turns into what our bodies use to continue our lives.

Have you ever given thought to the other forms of nourishment, no less important, no less life forming, coming through the different senses? Let's take one small example: hearing. If you work in an office it is likely you have a radio on most of the day. Your brain is being mildly stimulated through hearing the various bits of music. We even call them "sound-bites".

Have you ever considered the effect of the music and words on your mind, repeated over and over? Ask yourself, if this song is feeding me, what am I eating?

Do the same with commercials. You may find you have been mindlessly “chewing” on words and sounds that don’t really feed you, or feed you ideas which are less than what you need or want.

Take the same moments to examine what you are looking at. The nightly news cast is a prime example. Most of the news (north, east, west, south) is actually repetition of the most dramatic, and most horrible of the events that have taken place during a recent period of time. Is this what you really want to watch?

Does watching this make you feel more empowered and happier in your life? It may be important in your life to watch the news daily but for most people, the continual drip of "information" which is often visually appalling and emotionally upsetting contributes to an inner sense of helplessness and overwhelm. Take time to notice this and cut down viewing of the news to a more appropriate level for you.

Allow yourself to chose a more uplifting "eye" food. Go through your life with an understanding you are taking a sense inventory of everything which surrounds you daily. Take stock of these experiences consciously.

Ask yourself whether these experiences, on a daily basis, contribute to a wonderful, happy foundation for your life, a foundation which helps you cope with and feel better in the life you now live (as the right diet does).

On the other hand do these daily experiences slowly leak away whatever storehouse of joy and happiness, optimism and delight you have in the life you are living.

If your daily sense experiences do not add to your storehouse of joy and fun, take time to create more of these. Take a walk, speak with a neighbor, watch a sunset. The modern phenomena of gardening is, in my opinion, one very important way in which we feed all our senses in a positive, uplifting way.

Find ways to feed every sense, with as much care as you take with your diet.

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