 Hi, it's Bridget. Welcome to Sunday Morning Coffee with Bridget. Today, I'm outside enjoying the summer weather and you will hear the wind. As the air element shows up and brushes up against my microphone, I know, I know. It's not always the most enjoyable listening experience. However, today's topic, oh today's topic is Senses. Sensory input, sensory information. Really starting to allow yourself to engage with your senses in a way that is positive. It's positive. It is possible to engage all of your senses in ways that are positive, healthy, and hopeful for you. Now, I know, I know. If you're an empath or if you're a person that wrestles with mental illness and anxieties or depression, you and I both understand that senses, sensory systems go to overload like that and it can take you into a deep dive. Not the kind of deep dive into an ocean, but deep dive, nose dive, like a plane into the ground. And that is not something that is enjoyable or something that we expect or want as far as outcomes. So the intention of the senses for you and I to have this conversation together today is to encourage the connection, to allow for the connection on your terms, your terms. Because the blocks and the barriers that you've put up, oh empath, oh sweet sensitive person that you are, doer for everyone else and not for thyself. Yeah, I know you. I call it like I see it and I know it myself. So the mirror is looking back at me too. You have built a wall, barriers that have protected you or that you thought would keep you safe. And over time, the erosion of the wall, it starts to crumble. And there's pockets of openings and holes and gaps and you wonder, should I fill these up? What should I do at this stage? Do I need this wall? Do I need to build something new? Do I just leave it there and then I create a new fence behind that wall? I mean, how does this work? And that wall was created for a purpose with intention to protect you and keep you safe. Maybe to help you with boundaries. Do you have any boundary issues? I mean, do you? I know I do. I know I do. I know I do. I'm working on that myself. Very real, very raw, very authentic. I am working on boundaries. It is not easy. But boundaries is not a wall or a fence. It is an energetic presence. And we get to work with our senses to help us to affirm the beauty of a boundary, to empower ourselves with the boundary, to understand what boundaries mean, what they are. And this is an ambiguous thing. It's an ambiguous place to be. It's a strange new place to explore and experience. Because without that physical presence of that hardcore resistance, you know, the stuff that triggers you when you're looking at social media, or that totally annoys you when you hear a podcast and there's somebody being interviewed that, you know, you maybe love the host, but you're listening to somebody being interviewed and you're like, yeah, I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is about that person, but I just, I don't like them. I just don't like them. It's probably something they said, or an energy presence that you are picking up on, that you are sensing through your senses. And they are touching your resistance, which stings. It stings, it burns, it shields up. It creates a strong reaction or response from a light little annoying trigger or a frustration or what bubbles up later in the day to you getting crabby and into a bad, bad foul mood. And you go off on your kid, or you yell at a co-worker or some stupid jerk that cuts you off in traffic when usually you'd be like, oh, whatever. You know exactly what I'm talking about, because those triggers and that resistance, that sensory information that you're picking up on, and that's related to boundaries, that's related to you needing to protect yourself in some way, shape, or form. And I'm not talking about physically. I'm talking about energetically. Although let's talk about, let's take a moment here to step back and talk about senses. I've had the most wonderful opportunity today because I chose it on a day that is presenting me with a lot of stress, a lot of emotions at the surface, a lot of the doorstep of change, and emotions are right at the surface right now. I chose, I chose to go out, leave my house, drive to the beautiful park down by the river, and walk outside. It is hot. The blaze in the sun is 90 degrees right now. It is hot. And we're talking early in the morning, okay? Like 9.30 a.m. Central Time, yeah, early, relatively speaking. And I brought my journal, my sunscreen, my bug spray, my pen, my big sun hat, and my glasses, and I was ready. And I walked, and I drank my water, and I walked, and then I took a break. I drove to a different place, found a picnic table right next to the river. I posted on my Instagram, you can check that out, my view from my picnic table, and I journaled about the senses. So the question that came to me this morning and my morning reading for myself, my morning ritual, routine of doing a reading or connection for myself, which you can find if you're interested in those kind of videos on my fairy grasshopper YouTube, check out fairy grasshopper on my YouTube channel and you'll see that video of my morning reading. So during that connection, I received an invitation or I received my opportunity for choice to go deeper in what I felt as a bit of a resistance place. So through one of my readings for myself, I was connecting into a message of as above so below, as above so below the mirror. If you work in metaphysics at all or healing, you've heard this before, I'm sure. Well, that phrase a little bit is a trigger for me, as above so below is a trigger for me. And I know it, and I've written about it before in my journal and instead of pushing it away and adding to my little wall of resistance about this, I accepted it as an invite. So I brought my journal down by the water because water is flow and river flowing energy and water represents heart, which is empath, which is what I've been working on in senses, sensory sensitive person. So I've been talking to you about this on Sunday morning coffee. I've been talking to you about this on fairy grasshopper YouTube channel in our talk topics, lots of talk about emotions and mood and that kind of the thing. And I walked, I gave myself the opportunity to just be in nature and the elements always helpful to flow with the elements. So the wind, feeling it physically feeling it on my face, sensory response to appreciating it on my skin, which was getting wet very quickly because the sun was so strong, which I love the solar energy. So I felt that received it, appreciated it. And as that those the water just the moisture just wicked up on the top of my skin, and the wind would come by and it would just refresh me. And it was such a sweet collaboration of connection with the air, the water, the solar sun energy and my feet tapping the earth as my tennis shoes created this rhythm on the path that that paved path. It just felt so in alignment. And all of my senses were engaged. The colors were so vibrant of the green. It was just lit up. The sky so blue, it was lit up by that solar sun energy. And I just felt the flow of life through all of my senses, the physical body senses of sight, of feeling touch, I could feel my skin responding and reacting to the elements and the energy. And I could hear with my ears, my feet tapping literally tapping rhythmically tapping as I walked in a cadence on the path. And I heard birds everywhere. And off in the distance I would hear a truck kind of rumbling by on the highway on the bridge over the river. And all of it, all of it was perfect. It was perfect. And I was part of it. I was one with it. And it was one with me and it was all my senses engaged, all of them. Everything. It was wonderful. And I thought, this makes sense. This is what sensory processing means in a positive, healthy and hopeful way. This is connection. Our senses provide us with opportunities all the time for connection they do to remind us that we are already connected. We are already in rhythm, in natural rhythm. When we choose, when we make the choice, if I would not have gone on the walk this morning, my day would look very different right now. And I wouldn't be sitting and talking to you on my back deck so peaceful, filling myself with water for the graduation ceremonies later tonight in the 90 degree heat on the bright metal bleachers. And I'm bringing an umbrella. If I need the shade from the sun and I am going to appreciate the senses, I'm going to maximize the experience in positive, healthy and hopeful ways, positive inputs. I feel very relaxed right now. And that can happen at the same time. I am Clair Sentient and sensing and feeling the higher purpose of all the messages. And for me, psychically today, the message is really about connection and how our human life is built, our physical bodies are built for the connection to support the connection. Everything speaks through energetic language, including the body, including the elements, the air, including the colors, including the smell of the flowers that are blooming, the sound of the water as it's rushing over the rocks as you're walking by, the sound of the train off in the distance or the airplane above or the hustle and bustle of a traffic, a busy street, you can still feel the sensory energy of the rhythm. Find the rhythm in that beeping car and that revved up engine and it's just all a part of the bigger whole, the bigger wholeness of connection that we already belong to. It just reminds us that we are connected with life itself. Not any one person can dominate this connection. Not any one thing event activity, whether it be traumatic or blissful, defines us singularly as an independent individual as I or as we collectively in this experience. So I took the opportunity to go through my senses and I answered this question. So I'm going to share this with you because this might be something you can journal about yourself and you might find this very, very helpful, especially if you're an empath and you get overloaded with emotion. I think switching into natural nature and sensory input, whatever the situation is for you, whatever whether you are in the busy bustling city or for your out in at a park or etc. I think you can find the pattern here and the pattern, the natural rhythm will get you back into an organic understanding of connection. It will just affirm the connection that's already there, but you'll be in awareness. So you'll be able to receive that awareness of the connection. You'll be like, Oh yeah, okay, I got it. I got it. So the journal prompt that I used was as above so below, what does this mean to my mind? Because right away, my brain is my place that holds my wall, my boundaries, my barriers, and it's the most protective part of me. It's like the castle wall, right? That's that's how I connect. If you connect in a different way, you can start at a different, a different place. There's four parts that I'm going to focus on. This is what I focus on my coaching work and my intuitive coaching work, the body, mind, heart and soul, very simple, four parts, nice and balanced, honoring the four directions. You being the fifth direction, by the way, center core light spirit, that's you. So I started with my mind because I know that's where I hold my resistance very strongly. It's where most of my clients do as well, by the way, most of us do hello, yes, I think so. Yes, that's how you relate to your human life experience with your mind, right? Okay, okay, so let's start with the brain. So I'm like as above, so below, and just for a quick flash, I flashed into a little bit of some wounding around that with people who are, you know, people who I have had experience with as far as spiritual people and that come across as like mentors or like knowledgeable individuals or leaders and using it almost like a, well, this is a fact, boom, it's like boom, like putting a separation between them and myself, do you know what I mean? Like it just felt like boom, like it felt like a barrier, like a like a concrete barrier on construction. That's how it felt to me. That's how as above, so below felt to me. That's interesting, isn't it? But that's how it felt to me. Like, oh, these other people are so spiritual. Oh, they know so much. And then I was like, hello, turned off, boom, here's my here's my barrier. I don't trust you mentor, supposed spiritual mentor, because I can see all the stuff that you don't want. You're not working on yourself. And so therefore you're redirecting. So no, thank you. Please don't teach me what you don't know. Just be honest, Bridget, be just be honest with the people. And so sharing from this place, I stepped in as above so below, I felt it, I knew it, I could feel it and see how present it is for me right at the surface, even now. Yeah. And I shifted into my mind and I said, what does this mean to my mind? And so I ask you that as above so below, what does this mean to your mind? So you journal about that, you take that. And that's where I went to is this experience, right? It means keeping me safe. It means protection. It means separation. That something is better than below is not as good as above. So therefore, me as a human person can never be as good as above me as a spirit. Yet at the same time, here's the contrast or conflict. I am a spirit in my body. So wow, how do you come to terms with that? And so feeling into my senses, I started to feel some of what my mind hasn't been able to articulate in a sensory way. It's interesting because as I was sitting there on that picnic table, I had this awareness of one of my very personal own limitations about being called a teacher, like I didn't want to be considered. I haven't wanted to be considered a spiritual teacher. I mean, a mentor is fine. I'm fine with that term. But teacher, why when teaching really does mean so very much to me, so much if you followed my journey at all. I'm very grasshopper on my vlogs, you'll know, because I've talked about wanting to be an educator as a second career. And I've talked about it multiple times over the last 17 years. And as a part of me or a facet of me, and yet at the same time, being a teacher related to spiritual terms, it just seems so like I don't want somebody to tell me what to do. So I don't want to step into the role of telling people what to do, because that's not how we learn. We learn by experience. We learn through connection. And so you, through your senses, your mind connecting to your senses, giving you additional information about this just starting on this topic of, as above so below, a piece of resistance for you or a part of whatever shows up for you in your morning reading, your morning card pull, or an issue or topic, a scenario experience you've been working through or with or has been presented to you, use that as your lead, your question or your topic, and then go into my mind. What does this mean to my mind and let your mind articulate and share and bring in your senses, bring in your physical understanding of your mind and how it serves you and how it's helping you stay safe and protected or providing a structure for you to operate without judging or evaluating or criticizing it. Do your best to just share without judgment, even if what you write looks bad or seems bad or feels bad and you'd never want somebody else to see that you actually thought that about that person or that experience, just let your mind be free to say and share what it needs to. And that's it. Just let it flow, sensory senses, water flow, let it flow. Then drop in to the heart. So I ask my heart, what does this mean what is the meaning of this in my heart? What does that mean for my heart? So I felt into my heart and I worked through that energetically and sensory, there's a lot of senses I came through and that that experience there. And then I dropped into my solar plexus, my spirit, and that was amazing. That was pretty like, oh, obvious. Hello, oppie. Hello, so oppie here, your spirit living in a body. Of course, it's a collaborative effort. Hello. Yes, those are just the cliff note version of that one. And then the best one of all time history was the body. Body, what does this mean? What does this mean in my body? And that is where the bouquet of senses opened up, where I looked at how lush the green grass is against the blue sky and the contrast of how I felt shaded by these huge gigantic trees and hearing the water and at the same time hearing the trucks going by on the road across the bridge over the highway. And all of these sensory things coming in at once acknowledging that the body was the vessel, the human body experience is the vessel that allows for all of the connection to be known. Good, bad, inner, outer, inside sensory responsiveness, that empath energy being processed through the body, oh yes, the overwhelm, the depression, the anxiety, the manicness, the scattered thoughts, the lack of attention, hello heart, empath energy, emotion being processed by the physical body, internally stomach aches, headaches, sore knee. For me, I get a sore knee and a sore shoulder when it's something about my past. And I haven't done actually physical yard work like I've been doing recently. My right shoulder, the past pulling back to the past, something to release usually about my, my divorce that I had several years ago or some old relationship or pattern, maybe, maybe with my parents or grandparents or that kind of a thing. It's always the past pulling me back. So I have these inner messages that my body wisdom will tell me give me cues. And it is such an incredible sensory, intuitive experience with our bodies. And yet we're so mean to our bodies. I know I am at times too, like mean by like, I choose like foods that I know aren't great for it, like too much sugar, too much caffeine, or, you know, heaven forbid, I have a slice of pizza and the bread and the cheese together. Oh, inflammation. You know how that goes for gluten people and for people like me, I'm sensitive to both dairy and gluten, which isn't, I just heard recently, that's not unusual for people who experience anxiety or depression have the same kind of body responses to gluten or dairy. Fascinating to me. Fascinating. Must be the vibration of those foods or the way that they're made, that the binding of things together so that when it comes into our body, it doesn't flow through as sweetly, softly and steadily as other things like greens, organic greens, that kind of thing, but organic greens are nature. So I mean, it's fascinating, fascinating, but the body knows. The body so knows knows that stuff, it responds to stuff externally, like the heat hot, so hot, so I'm sweating and it responds to things internally, like my emotions and oh my gosh, today, I can feel the emotions. I'm going to cry a lot as I get ready to watch the graduation. I'm going to sweat a lot as I'm sitting on that metal bleacher. I'm going to feel my tummy, my low belly, my sacral chakra, the energy of the mother beaming out, lighting the way for my little one. Yeah, I feel it. So our senses, our sensory connections, are priceless. They're amazing. They may feel overwhelming at times and like a detriment, something that causes us more pain, but that is only because you are overusing this incredible gift of your senses. You are overusing it. It is overflowing because it's not being shuttled into or channeled into the places where it can be of greatest good for you, the most positive, hopeful and healthy for you. That is always the goal when we're in connection and energy is flowing. It's positive, hopeful and helpful to you because it has to make sense. So the helpfulness has to make sense. Hopful has to be inspiring, has to have that spark and positive. Good. You deserve to feel better and the goal is for you to feel good. You're not going to always feel good, but if you can feel a little better than where you were at when you first connected, that is success. Check the box. You passed. Congratulations. So this is Bridget. Thanks for spending time with me today here on Sunday Morning Coffee with Bridget. This is a long one today. Cheers to you as you are listening today. Be sure to check out the comment section and share with me what was most insightful, inspiring or hopeful for you in this conversation or dialogue today. I look forward to connecting you with you on Ferry Grasshopper, my YouTube channel for all things intuitive and inspiring and as always on a both-life channel where we channel after-life celebrity guests on the weekly. Thanks so much for being here. Have a great day.