You know that you have five senses, you smell dinner cooking, you hear music playing, you can feel the soft blanket, see the beautiful things around you and you taste the delicious meal you smelled cooking. If you have senses that aren’t as strong as you want them to be, you can boost these sense.
Everyone has senses to help them to have a better life. With these senses, your brain will process information and it helps you to understand the world around you.
- Sight
This is a sense that uses light which reflects off the object and then will pass through the lens and the cornea and you will see an image.
- Touch
Touching includes pressure, pain, vibrations and even temperature.
- Hearing
This sense happens when the sound goes through the ear as sound waves and vibrates the ear drum.
- Smell
Smell happens when you have nerve endings that send the scent to the brain which interprets it.
- Taste
Your taste buds are part of your tongue and mouth, and they have sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and savory. You can even feel spicy because it sends a pain signal from your mouth to your brain.
How to Make Your Senses Stronger
You can improve your senses, and this is part of how you perceive things and part of perceptual learning that helps you to respond to things that happens in your body. These are things that can get stronger.
You can improve your senses by doing sensory training and this can create perception function that gets better over time. Here are some ways to make that happen:
- Olfactory Training
If you want to improve your smelling, you can do this in your own home. You can boost how you smell things by being mindful of what you are smelling around you. You can even keep a journal on the new things that you smell.
Smell training can happen by smelling things that are strong throughout the day such as spices, perfumes, or other things. You can try using essential oils, herbs, spices, or other things.
- Base Scent
You can establish a base scent by using your nose to become sensitive over smells that you smell each day. Your body can get used to these and so you need to amp it up by adding new scents to your body.
- Essential Oils
As mentioned above, you can add essential oils to your smells so that you can increase your sense of smell. You can use these oils such as nasal inhalers or roll-ons. Use ones that are therapeutic grade so that they will be healthy for your body.
- Eat New Foods
You can eat new foods that are good for you, and this will help you to increase your vision. Some foods are great for your eyes such as foods that are full of antioxidants. Here are some of the best foods to make your eyes stronger:
- Fruits such as cherries, pears, and oranges.
- Vegetables such as carrots, spinach, and sweet potatoes.
- Spices such as oregano, parsley, or basil.
- Nuts, almonds, walnuts, and cashews.
- Apple juice, tomato juice and cider.
- Practice in the Dark
Take time before you go to bed to try to see things in the dark. Do this for a few minutes and allow your eyes to focus when the lights are out. This can help to make your vision and seeing stronger.
- Don’t Smoke
Smoking can change the way that you taste and smell. It can affect your senses. Smoking can make your taste buds dull. Smoking can also affect your hearing because it stops the cochlea to get the oxygen it needs. This can also hurt your eyesight and make you develop things like cataracts.
Stop smoking so that you can increase your senses.
- Smell and Sound Exercises
There are easy exercises such as yoga or aerobics that can help you to smell better. This increases the blood flow to your nasal passages. You can also increase your hearing through exercising because it increases the blood to your auditory cortex.
- Focusing and Touch
Your sense of touch can be uncomfortable and when you have certain sicknesses, your touch might have decreased sensations. Sicknesses such as a stroke, diabetes or cancer can affect how you feel things.
You can improve your eyesight and increase your touch sensation by looking closely as to what you are touching. Look at it, focus on it and then feel it. Then think about what you are seeing and feeling. Do this anytime of the day.
- Sensations
There are different sensations that you can get when you touch things. Try putting things in a bag and closing your eyes. Put your hand in the bag and see what you feel and try to describe it before you pull it out. This can increase your touch sense.
Final Thoughts
Even though there are things that can dull your senses such as a cold, medication, age, alcohol, allergic reactions, or unhealthy foods, you can do the exercises above so that you can increase your senses.
Your senses help you to live your best life and they can also help to keep you safe from harm. By doing simple things, you can increase your senses and you will see that your life is more satisfying than ever.