How do you feel when you hold a crystal or receive a massage? Touch brings us inward, into our breath and into our body. How do we really feel when we close our eyes and exit the mind into the body, again? Do you feel warm, cool, tingly?
Vibrations, chanting, singing! Music & vibration moves us and touches the soul! Chanting, storytelling and singing physically vibrate the vagus nerve and calms the CNS, and has been used for centuries to alter consciousness, and shift out of fight or flight.
Smell is the only sense that has an unfiltered pathway directly to the brains limbic system, which governs memory and regulating emotion. We can access fear, survival instinct, pleasure and reward by working with this sense of smell purposefuly.
After engaging the senses until we reach paradox, we move naturally into a deep inner realm of knowing. A place of slience and peace, where there is no more confusion. It is what we know when we realize our soul.