How To Re-sensitize?

When we are born we are sensitive beings. We are in touch with our needs and our desires. At this stage we lack the ability to communicate in order to get what we want. As we grow our communication skills continue to blossom. We learn how to ask for what we need and we lose the sensitivity to what we desire.

As time goes on we desensitize our selves through stimuli, training, and conditioning. This is important to learn but it is even more important to unlearn?

I was having a conversation with a good friend today. She said that she used to work in hard manual labor and have bruises unnoticed up and down her body but now that she has stopped working in that way she notices the pain that a paper cut causes. Without thinking I told her that she was re-sensitizing herself.

How beautiful! A human being who is re-senstizing their body so that they can take care of themselves. Re-connecting to their must true desires and callings. My heart blossomed.

I can relate to this motion too. I have been trying to stay hydrated. Now that I am a month in I notice when my hydration levels are off. That being said when they are off I am still more hydrated than I was a month ago. I now can tell when I am dehydrated. I can sense when my body needs water. How long did I live not knowing how thirsty I was? I am re-sensitizing myself to what hydration feels like? What else have we been consciously or unconsciously denying ourselves?

When I was younger I grew up without television. I grew up with out visual violence being shown to me. I remember the first time I saw a cover of a Goosebumps book. I was haunted in my dreams. I entered a zombie apocalypse on the Magic School Bus and we were forced into slavery in a pit mine run by the Skeleton people. That was just from looking at a cover. I remember the first time I saw a grisly murder scene on the television. It stain my brain. As I introduced myself to more and more graphic stimuli I became more and more desensitized to it.

The practices and rituals I have committed to for the first quarter of the year are actions to help simplify my life and make it specific and aligned. This action has started to re-sensitize my life. I am feeling, thinking, and being in a way that I haven't been for a long time.

It works. What I have been doing works. The practices and rituals work. When you are open to the universe supporting you and your journey everything just starts clicking.

How does this relate to you? In what ways have you become desensitized? How can you desensitize yourself in order to be better aligned with your desires? How do you think this will benefit you as we enter the New World?

What are your thoughts? I want to hear them.

Keep Living { The Good Life }

Ian