When you think of sensory therapy, you may immediately think it has to do with your 5 senses. Which is true, BUT there’s so much more.

 

We first mentioned sensory therapy on IG. When we start working with sensory therapy and integrate it into a client’s individualized holistic healing plan, we make sure they understand what it entails:

 

 

🔷 Visual impressions - chromotherapy

🔷 Sounds you absorb - sound therapy

🔷 Smells you inhale - aromatherapy

🔷 Tastes you perceive - mindful eating

🔷 Touch you receive - self massage

 

Sounds complicated? It doesn’t have to be! Here are some sensory therapy techniques you can try at home to restore balance and practice mindfulness:

 

🪔Aromatherapy

Essential oils, candles, and bouquet sniffing are all scent-enjoying activities that can help you become more centered. 

 

🥗Food tasting

More than just eating, tasting is a more immersive and mindful experience. Prepare, taste, and enjoy your favorite healthy foods. Try new recipes and ingredients too.

 

🌳Nature walks

This activity can engage multiple senses - sight, sound, touch, and smell. Walk and explore and intentionally appreciate as many elements as you possibly can.

 

🌊Water watching

Whether you live by the beach or a river, simply watching and soaking in the movement of the water has a soothing effect.

 

🧹Skin brushing

Gently brush the skin of your arms, legs, and face with textured items like feathers, pencils, grass, and fabrics.

 

🎧Listen to your surroundings

Choose a playlist that aligns with the energy you need most (soothing or uplifting) and tune in. Listen to wind chimes or traffic noise. Listen to the sounds of nature.

 

Want to learn more about sensory healing? Check out our blog this week.

 

Of course, it takes trial and error to figure out which sensory technique works best for your path. If you don’t want to take the time to figure it out on your own, that’s where we can help! Click here to set up a 15-minute free consultation with our team, and we’ll help you find the right path to feel better (for the long term).

 

Until next week,

World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the very situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. For him a ringing telephone can be a signal to call us back to our true selves. Dirty dishes, red lights, and traffic jams are spiritual friends on the path to “mindfulness”—the process of keeping our consciousness alive to our present experience and reality.