My posting hiatus was due to my well-deserved vacation. How delicious! My wife and I enjoyed a full week in São Paulo, Brazil, where I delighted in incredible surroundings. After all, São Paulo is one of the largest metropolis in the world and offers to its residents and visitors a great many options for entertainment.
I really took advantage of my stay there to stimulate my senses as much as possible. On the second day, I treated myself to a full bodied Asian massage — São Paulo has the world’s second largest Japanese community. It was so amazing that I returned for repeats before the end of my sojourn.
The massage made me realize how ample our kinesthetics are and how little I explore mine. Having someone else touch and tease out all the tension lodged in different body points while I relaxed allowed me to discover how many kinesthetic sub-modalities go unnoticed in my day-to-day.
For starters, try feeling temperature through your foot. Unbelievable! It was the first time in my life I turned my attention to this. I’m so focused on the upper part of my body that I forget that every single kinesthetic distinction can be experienced at every body part.
What about feeling pressure with your forearm?
What about feeling moisture with your knee?
What about feeling vibration with your ears?
Stop for a second allow yourself to feel the blood flow in your legs. Had you ever done that before?
Pull up the almost complete list of kinesthetic submodalities and test out each of them using different body parts. You’ll be blown away!
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