The Top 10 Supersenses

Originally Submitted on 4/29/99.

Have you noticed that some people seem to be cued in to the world around them in ways that others are not? These are probably not connected to those senses that some call paranormal, or extrasensory perception, for what I call supersenses are not free of the normal senses. They are, rather, a very acute sensitivity, or awareness of what is happening around one. They can be cultivated by meditation, and by simply focusing on the finer energies around you. If you are absorbed in yourself, or in the world around you, without being aware of the ongoing interaction of finer energies between the two, you may miss these messages. They are worth listening for.

1. Something is wrong.

Believe it or not, there is a recognizable brain wave that relates to having made a mistake. It appears even before the individual is consciously aware of having made an error.

2. Time flow.

You instinctively seem to know when it is time to leave, how long it will take to get somewhere, or to do something, without constantly checking your watch.

3. Direction.

Perhaps this is tied in with a sense of where the sun is, what the time is, but there are people who never get lost. They may not know what road they are on, but they know the direction they are headed, and they get there without miles of searching and backtracking.

4. What people are about.

You understand and accept, without judgment, what is going on for those around you. You are neither gullible nor cynical, you simply seem to know what people are about, whether they will be healthy for you to be around or not.

5. Pause.

This is a sense that tells us when it is not the time to move forward on something. For a writer, it may be that the project s/he was ready to start is kept on hold, and suddenly new information comes to light that presents the project in an entirely different light. It needs fine-tuning or can become an excuse for procrastination.

6. Being in the right place at the right time.

This may not apply just to career opportunities. It may involve being in the right place to pick up a frightened child even though you were not due to do so for another half hour, or arriving at the library just as the book you are looking for is returned.

7. Trends.

People with an awareness of trends are sometimes called early adopters. They seem to be in synch with the inventors, the folks with half a dozen patents in their names. They do not so much follow a trend as become a part of it almost before its direction has become clear to most of us.

8. Diagnostic touch.

You may not know what is wrong, but by touching the skin of a person, or the fur of an animal, you know that all is not well.

9. Foods that you need.

Someone I know has this sense so finely attuned that she keeps about four times the amount of food stocks that most people keep. Her reason? She is so attuned to her needs that it is almost impossible for her to eat what she does not need, so she keeps a wider variety always available than most people would.

10. Finding things.

You instinctively go to where the things you are looking for can be found. This may apply to lost objects and to things that you want to buy. You do not need to walk through the mall to find what you need, you head directly to the store that carries what you need. You gravitate to lost objects so easily that, for you, objects are rarely lost.

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