Exploring the six senses thru the mind

intsruction for guided mediation

To explore the six senses we will use our imagination and use the mind sense to explore the other five. This may help you to see how the mind sense works.

We will do this like a guided meditation, we will look at the senses through the types of feeling: pleasant, unpleasant, and neither pleasant or unpleasant


like: pleasant- I want this
SMELL: of a chip shop
TASTE: your favourite ice cream
TOUCH: holding a friends hand – your first kiss.
LOOK: a table full of your favourite food
LISTEN: your favourite music
MIND: visualise your favourite food again, smell it, taste it, touch it, listen to yourself as you munch on it, where is all this happening.

Sit for 5 minutes

Dislike: unpleasant – I don’t want this
SMELL: of rotten piece of cheese
TASTE: eating some earth
TOUCH: putting your hand on a very hot heater
LOOK: cut there thumb and they are bleeding
LISTEN : some body calling you names.
MIND: where is all this happening, and these are unpleasant, who says they are unpleasant

Sit for 5 minutes

Calm: Neutral
SMELL: imagine your breathe
TASTE: taste you tongue
TOUCH: touch of your clothes on your body
LOOK: water
LISTEN: to the wind
MIND: where is all this happening, if these are plain/unexciting feelings then who says this?
Sit for 5 minutes.