Awareness Exercises - A List of Choices

Physical

• Do blindfolded taste and smell tests.
• Be aware of your breath and the act of breathing.
• Listen closely to the ringing in your ears.
• Visit a sense deprivation chamber.
• With your eyes closed, feel different textures.
• See light with your eyes 100% covered.
• Focus on an air molecule 1 and then 2 meters in front of you.
• Monitor your body temperature over one month.
• Get more in touch with your body's needs for food, water, rest and exercise.
• Become aware of how your body responds to different foods.
• Sense where tension sits in your body and consciously release it.
• Stop at any moment and really feel your environment.
• Experience the weather without labeling it.
• Allow your body (and soul) to express itself through dance.
• Experience different kinds of music.
• Sense the differences between one hand and the other.

Physical - Energetic

• Breathe deeply and slowly and experience how you feel.
• Sense the etheric (hidden) level of dis-ease or injury.
• Ask a sore body part to identify the true source of the pain, then listen for the answer.
• Use kinesiology or a pendulum to get information.
• Hug a tree and sense its energy.
• Close your eyes and sense your hands above you.
• Sense the energy of different metals and types of wood.
• Sense the properties of colours with your eyes closed.
• Sense the different energies in nature versus an urban setting.
• Sense your feelings at a bar, graveyard, church and park.
• Sense water and food quality by its energy.
• Sense plant health.
• Sense your need for exercise, cleansing, balancing and grounding.
• Sense the level of activity in each of your 7 chakras.
• Use a biofeedback unit and generate more alpha waves.

Emotional

• Sense whether another person is telling the truth.
• Deeply experience feelings of compassion, empathy and sympathy.
• Sense fear and write about it.
• Sense where fear sits in your body.
• Ask yourself: are these feelings my own or someone else's?
• Make yourself smile and experience your feelings.
• Make yourself laugh and experience your feelings.

Mental

• Ask yourself: What can I say to another person to meet their immediate need?
• Which elevator will arrive first?
• Which areas of my life do I work on next?
• Who needs a call or letter from me?
• Who wants to get in touch with me now?
• Guess tomorrow's headlines.
• Sense male and female qualities and energies.
• Sense left or right brain energy.
• Sense what block to work on next for personal growth.
• Guess what time it is, then check the clock.
• Use your mental alarm clock to wake yourself up.

Spiritual

• Sense the essence of music, books.
• Sense the meaning or message behind a chance meeting or event.
• Sense devas and angels.
• Sense guides, masters and entities.
• Sense self, Soul and God or Spirit.
• Sense community, province or state, country, planet, solar system and infinity.
• Sense yourself as pure light.

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