What's Your Super Sense?
Using our senses is how we first gather information about the world around us.
Our five senses - sight, taste, touch, hearing and smell – as well as our sense of logic, collect information about our environment that are interpreted by the brain.
They are also the way our body sends important messages to us, and the way our intuition converses with us.
Is this situation right for you? Is this person healthy for you? Why do we think and act in a certain way? What to do next?Why do we just click with some people and others we just don’t?
It all comes down to our own internal representational system: which means how we represent the world using our senses.We all use a combination of these modalities perceiving and making sense of our external and internal world, as well as when communicating with ourselves & others.However, we all have a sense that is dominant.
That is our Super Sense.
We have the following senses to rely on when processing information:
What we see Visual modality
What we hear Auditory modality
What we smell Olfactory modality
What we sense/feel Kinesthetic modality
What we taste Gustatory modality
What we tell ourselves Auditory Digital modality
And just like with any superpower, it is a double-edged sword. As HSPs, we have heightened awareness to one (or more) of our senses, and that can be overstimulating and overwhelming. And yet, by leaning into a more in-depth connection to our senses, we can harness their wisdom and turn them into strengths.
So, what’s yours?
