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Hearing is one of the first senses to develop in a fetus. With some studies showing that exposure to classical music may improve academic performance, this has prompted many parents to add a touch of Mozart to the womb. |
Sensuality can be defined as an acute awareness of what the senses perceive. This preoccupation or devotion to that which is smelled, touched, heard, tasted, and seen has significant bearing on how one experiences the many pleasures of life, including food, music and sex.
Studies have shown that people who are exceptionally sensual are very process-oriented. In life, this means enjoying the present moment and rarely getting hung up on the future or the past. What is going on at the present moment is enough to capture a sensual individual's full attention. This is an excellent recipe for happiness. Although life can be so much sweeter when we take the time to indulge our five senses, the old adage that too much of a good thing can be harmful still holds true. We've all experienced the repercussions of too much good food, alcohol, and other unhealthy (though pleasurable) addictions. As always, life is best enjoyed in healthy moderation!
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Sense of the Aesthetic |
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Tactile Sensuality |
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Interpersonal and Sexual Sensuality |
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Overall results (score 64)
Your results indicate that you are a fairly sensual person. You enjoy the sensual stimuli of everyday life; yours is a rather hedonistic attitude, and you deeply enjoy the physical pleasures that life has to offer. A good smell or beautiful color is often enough to keep a smile on your face and a song in your heart. Since you get so much pleasure from your senses, you are probably eager to experiment in life. This can prove to be quite advantageous, as you can make great discoveries as well as experience a lot of pleasure. Keep in mind, however, that being too pleasure-driven can inhibit you from persevering if an experience isn't entirely pleasant. If this rings true for you, a lack of persistence, even if only occasional, might keep you from attaining worthy goals. Sometimes, we have to wade through dull and insipid periods of life in order to reap the rewards it has to offer. | |||
Sense of the Aesthetic (score 57)
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Tactile Sensuality (score 84)
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Interpersonal and Sexual Sensuality (score 46)
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Sensual Perception (score 69)
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Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams. " Amos Bronson Alcott " Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock. " Gandhi Looking for some ideas to add a little spice to your life? Although living an existence of utter hedonism probably wouldn't be very healthy, learning to be in harmony with your five senses can open up a whole new world to you. There's so much to discover...so many little things that can tantalize and romanticize our senses. Please keep in mind that sensuality need not be confused with sex ? it is an excitement of the senses; it's a matter of becoming more in tune with what it feels like to really be alive! Here are some tips to bring a little more sensuality into your life: • Practice meditation and deep breathing. With the hustle and bustle of the everyday world, meditation provides a way to shut out the hubbub around, slow down your racing thoughts and focus on nothing but inner silent peace. As you're meditating, focus on your breathing, imagining the air filling your lungs as you inhale, and slowly slipping out as you exhale. • Stop and smell the roses ? literally. Nature constantly provides us with a rich variety of sensual stimuli to excite our senses ? the smell of a rose, the smell of freshly cut grass, the smell of the air after a rain shower ? there is no man-made, expensive perfume that can compete with the aroma of nature. • Lose yourself in the music. Find a music genre that really gets you going ? dance, classical, latin, or even heavy metal. Whether you're doing the cleaning or just sitting home alone, put in a CD, blast the music and go nuts ? really let yourself go! Dance, sway, or just sit back and let the melody flow through and around you. Music is a powerful source of energy! • Get in touch with your imagination. Visualization or mental imagery occurs without the aid of external stimuli ? that is, you use your imagination to create an experience or the perception of an experience. Although imagining the smell of coffee, bacon frying, or any other pleasant aroma can be difficult for some people right off the bat, it can be achieved with time and practice:
• Don't just eat your food ? savor it! Too many of us get so caught up in our fast-paced, microwaveable-oven, disposable world that we don't take the time to actual enjoy what we eat. The next time you're eating a really good meal, take the time to chew slowly and savor every flavor that touches your palate. Food provides more than sustenance ? it's a sensuous feast for our mouth, nose, and eyes! • Bring art to life. Don't just stare at a painting or the words on a page ? fire up your imagination and bring them to life. How does the artwork or a particular piece of prose make you feel? Can you identify with the characters on the mural or the page? How do you think the artist or author was feeling before, during and after they created their masterpiece? What do like and hate about it? • Tantalize your tactility. Buy yourself some silk sheets and sleep in the nude. Enhance the bedroom romance by running the tips of your fingers along your lover's skin, lips, or through his/her hair. The sense of touch can evoke so many feelings, from comfort and content to excitement and arousal. |
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