1. Watch the video for inspiration
2. Walk around in your house, office or go outside for 5 minutes and start smelling
3. Write down 3 – 10 scents you have smelled (no wrong or right here).
3. Write them in your workbook
4. The rest of the day: Smell around like a Happy Alien
5. Be grateful. “Thank you dear nose (and matching brain) for granting me this gift.”
In this third lesson you continuing Super Sensing your Superpowers.
Next object is your nose. That beautiful instrument we love or hate. I used to hate my nose. it’s rather large, not straight at all and pretty much ‘in your face’. I wanted to have it changed. Until a strong woman approached me and said: “I love your nose. It is a proper nose with character.” I took it as a compliment. No trip to Doctor Plastic Botox for me. … for now… (never say never and all that…) I also wanted to be blond, tall and very thin, and I don’t see that happen either.
Anyway. Our noses… whether we like someone or not depends largely on their scent. It’ s a great warning instrument, in a case of fire, smoke or people who have eaten something they shouldn’t have.[dt_gap height=”10″ /]
We love the smell of grass, our grandmother’s perfume, great food… But what about your daily cup of tea, coffee in the morning and the connection you make when smelling those familiar scents. Also our own body, the neck of a loved one. Our breakfast, hair, computer, pen, lipstick, old books, bag, sheets … Your memories connected to a scent. Remember that time you broke up and all you got was that one painful smelly t-shirt? Remember the smell of your childhood?
My sister once tried to cook for us. She was 7 years old and cooked vegetables without adding any water. The smell was pretty intense. My father came home and opened the kitchen door. “What is going on here?” he bellowed (my father is not the bellowing type) his face as white as a sheet, and out he stormed.
We had no idea what just happened to our kind and patient dad. When he returned – hours later – , he explained that the burned vegetables smelled like the Japanese camps. He never complained – or told a lot – about his childhood spent in those camps, but the smell had hit him hard.
The reason I’m telling you this is that smell can give you powerful insides about yourself. Start using your nose as a real Superpower.
“Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid, more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pulsates with buoyancy and desire. It suggests all the things strong and beautiful and joyous and gives me a sense of physical happiness.”
― Helen Keller