Benefits of Mindfulness: Human Senses as 5 Techniques

P.S. Forgive the context of this article assuming that you have all 5 senses. I understand others may be differently abled. 🫶

Disclaimer: Breath was given to us by our Lord God, and to practice conscious breathing is not a new age spirituality practice for Christians (even when the world makes it out to be) because living mindfully doesn’t belong to the world. This human experience doesn’t belong to the world and its god, the devil. So, when we practice mindfulness, we do it in the name of Jesus, the God of our breath. Be mindful of that to reject the world’s perception of mindfulness practice. 

Mindfulness requires a constant environment that we can root ourselves in to be present at any given moment. To practice mindfulness, we need to remember to be mindful, otherwise, it’s a constant desire that is never achieved. It is important to realise the importance and necessity of being mindful in our lives.

If we do not discern why mindfulness is a technique we want to practice, we will always remember it after the moment we should have practiced it. So cement the importance of mindfulness as a means of mental health, wellness, and any other significant reason we might have.

Mindfulness is a wellness technique that we enact by strategically placing our attention or awareness to achieve being present, and therefore achieve being mindful. It is not a spiritual practice, it is taking control of what is happening within us physically. It is not silencing our mind, it is stepping out of our mind as a means of living life, for we are spirits. And living as a spirit is how we can begin to live through the Holy Spirit to achieve living a spiritual life.

How to Practice Mindfulness 

Breath is one reliable way we can practice being mindful because breath is from 1 of our 5 senses, the sense of smell. We practice breath as a mindfulness technique by placing our attention and awareness on our breath.

When our attention shifts to anywhere else, which it will and will do so less with more practice, we return our attention to our breath and do so perpetually and therefore achieve being in our present moment because our breath (and all other senses) exists continuously in the present moment only, as the future and past only exist in the mind. Being anywhere else but the present moment is not being mindful of even ourselves, for we are spirits, not thoughts or emotions.

Having more than one technique to practice mindfulness is advantageous and perhaps necessary to encapsulate the varieties and complexities of life and its moments. In any given moment, maybe we’ll need our attention and awareness (spirit) placed on the words we are saying because it needs to be so always, or say we are giving a speech, or speaking to an important person that requires our intentional honesty and transparency.

We may not have the luxury or ability to place our attention on our breath as a means of being present. Now our 5 senses are smell (nose, for breath), taste (tongue, for speech), hearing (ears, for sound), eyes (for seeing), and the sense of touch through hands, feet, and the whole body. 

Use Your Other Senses for Mindfulness 

People spend a lot of time speaking during their life. The tongue (the sense of taste) can be used as a mindfulness technique by placing attention on the words we speak. Being aware of the words that come out of our mouth will not only be a means of mindfulness but that of self-control. The importance of watching our mouth is spiritually deep because words exist though they can’t be touched, so they are a spiritual reality from the spiritual realm and the spiritual world is what creates the physical world, so the words we say creates our life. 

Seeing (the sense of sight) is the fourth technique for mindfulness practice. Sight is like the sense of hearing in regards to being effortless and organic in occurrence. Placing our attention and awareness on what we are seeing is called observing. Just observing is a mindfulness technique that is perhaps the most convenient and that will, like the other senses, keep us in the present moment without fail. If our mind starts trying to perceive what we’re seeing instead of just looking, we return our focus, attention, and awareness to just looking and observing, to just being conscious of our eyes and their input sensory (what they are seeing). 

Hearing (the sense of sound) is a third technique for mindfulness. Hearing cannot be turned off, so it is a perfect mindfulness technique because it happens effortlessly. All we need to do is place our attention and awareness on what we are hearing, whether there are actual sounds or whether it’s a silent night. The practice is to hear even the tiniest of sounds, or even to hear the loudness of silence. The purpose is to be mindful and in the present moment through our sense of hearing, no matter what we may or may not hear. And if our attention drifts away from what we hear, we focus back on our sense of hearing. 

Last, but certainly not least and as effective is our sense of touch, which involves any sensation of touch, whether our clothes, or what we have in our hands, or our feet in our shoes, or touching the ground. Touch is the mindfulness technique that is being aware and conscious of our whole body, in part, or as a whole. Being aware of our body is being grounded in ourselves. It’s being rooted in our spirit because we’re not thinking thoughts or feeling emotions, our body and spirit (the awareness) are in perfect unison. 

When we’re using our sense of touch as a mindfulness technique, we are aware of any sensation our body may be feeling. The sun or wind touching our skin, an itch occurring, our hands on our thighs. We are feeling our body, both within and without, and coming back to our body if a thought comes, or if anything occurs that isn’t pure awareness of our body, within and without. Psychologists call this mindfulness practice scanning our body. 

You Are Not Your Thoughts or Emotions

Remember that we are the awareness in being mindful because that awareness is our spirit. We are not thoughts, and we are not emotions because how could we be thinking a thought if we are the thought itself? As we can’t be feeling an emotion if we are the emotion itself. Our spirit, the awareness, is who and what feels and thinks in the body.

Learning how to be mindful is learning how to be ourselves, our true selfs. Mindfulness is a practice that separates us from believing we are one with our thoughts or one with our emotions. It withdraws us out of thoughts and emotions and brings us back to our spirit (the internal awareness), and only then (as a spirit) are we truly living an authentic life. A life of originality.

May your mind be renewed, your faith be strengthened, and your peace be anchored in Christ, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

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