Discover How the Senses Steer Your Mind

Explore the Senses and Their Influence

Click on the images below to learn more about how each sense can drag your mind all over the place and what you can do to steer them back to the path you wish to travel in your life.

A Snapshot of the Sensory Influences

The influence of the senses show up as behaviors, experiences, beliefs, and personality traits. Here are some keywords for how sensory influence can manifest:

Touch- Thin-skinned, irritable, touchy-feely, glad hand, standoffish, empath
Taste- Binge, picky, discriminating, worry, lazy, unfulfilled, vacant, bloat, dissatisfied, refined
Smell- Snob, allergic, mistrust, dreamy, withdrawn, passive aggression, instinctive, discerning
Sight- Binge-watching, doom scrolling, self-conscious, dodgy, projection, misread
Hearing- Headphones all day, nervous, tuned out, misunderstand, awkward, earworm
Thought- Monkey mind, restlessness, zoning out, catastrophizing, oversharing, rambling, indecision, compulsive, insomnia
Breath- Impulsive, mood swings, exaggeration, muddled, listless, busy body, ennui, cold, distant

Master Your Mind By Improving the Relationship with Your Senses

Like a horse whisperer and horses find mutual understanding, you can partner with your senses to steer your mind and life. Here are some steps to improve your relationship with your senses:

Recognize Which Sense Steers Your Mind: Take the Sense Quiz to identify your sense habits. The questions in the quiz are meant to bring awareness to the senses' influence over the mind.
Understand Your Senses: Get to know your senses. Spend time observing how your senses operate. Understand how they interact with the world.
Pay Attention to Your Sense Habits: Once you’ve gotten to know your senses, notice what they are attached to and what they are averse to. What do they move toward and what do they steer away from?
Show Your Senses Some Love: As you become aware of your sense cravings, judgment may arise. You may try to control your habits, which is just another expression of attachment and aversion. Instead, notice your sense cravings with the compassion of a horse whisperer.
Go To the Heart: Explore your heart as an organ of perception. What if the heart perceives the world through each of the senses? How could that change your mind?
Reset Your Sensory Perception: Cleanse your mind through practices that inhibit sensory input. Fast from the food your senses take it. Unplug from electronic devices. Use practices like concentration, breathwork and yoga nidra to give your sense much need rest and recuperation. You'll experience the world with greater clarity.

Harness the Wild Power of Your Senses

Identifying your sense habits and taking time to give them rest improves your relationship with your senses. You recognize when your perception is influenced by sensory cravings and compassionately honor your experience. This understanding eases your senses' resistance to being harnessed and steered by your conscious awareness. You know what your senses need to be healthy and willing to be lead in the direction you want to go in life.

Ready to discover the sense that has the most influence on your mind? Check out the Which Sense Steers Your Mind quiz?

Take the quiz to find out!

Jennifer Marie Young's new book is your guide to mastering the senses.

Rein: Harness the Wild Power of Your Senses

This isn't just another how-to yoga book. It's a personal journey into the sensory experiences that shape the mind and the world around you.

Drawing from the rich tapestry of ancient yogic traditions and sprinkled with relatable stories of Jennifer Marie Young's personal exploration of the senses and the mind, Rein sheds light on Pratyahara, the fifth limb of yoga, which focuses on withdrawing the senses from external objects to cleanse the mind of sensory attachments and aversions. Rein is your guide for mastering the art of living in today's oh-so-distracting world with calm, equanimity and Divine guidance.

With Jennifer's stories and guided practices, learn how to relate to your senses, understand how their cravings and habits impact your mind. Find balance and well-being that sticks with you, on and off the mat.

Whether you're a yoga pro or just starting to explore what yoga can do for your mind and soul, Rein has something for you. It's all about making sense (pun intended) of how you interact with the world and finding ways to live more intentionally and joyfully.

Here's a sneak peek of what you'll discover:

How to tame sensory cravings that throw you off your game.
Guided explorations to improve the relationship with your senses.
Yoga wisdom for the navigating the overabundance of sensory stimulation in today's world.
Ways to connect with yourself and the Divine by paying attention to your senses.

So, are you in? Ready to unlock a new level of personal growth and awareness? Rein is here to show you the way.

Don't let your senses drag your mind all over the place. It's time to take the reins of your senses and harness their power to steer your mind along the path you choose