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Sensory Inspired Coaching
Being involved with Sensory Integration for the past 20 years, we have noticed how many children, parents, students, and grandparents do not understand their own behavior or the reason for their emotions experienced on a daily basis. They do not understand why they feel anxious, stressed, depressed and presenting with sleep difficulties. They do not know what to do about it.
Every single individual has patterns and behaviors that hold them back. These patterns or behaviors are often unconscious and you might feel helpless because you do not know what to do about it or change it.
Your Sensory Self has developed a 15-week sensory exploration and management program to guide you in Your Sensory Self journey. Through expert assessment, sensory profiling, advice, proactive coaching, and strategic guidance, you’ll soon understand Your Sensory Self and excel in a way you never thought possible. This program is a journey of self-exploration, understanding your unique neurological make-up, self-acceptance, and success. The program has been designed for adolescence, adults, professionals, couples or anyone interested to understand their sensory make-up and to learn how to remove the constraints it places on your daily lives.
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MAKING SENSE OF YOUR SENSES
The impact your sense have on your daily life
We are surrounded by sensory stimuli/input in our everyday lives. The way we use sensory stimulation is impacting on how we make sense of the world and interact with the world around us. It impacts on how we learn new skills and participate in play, school, work, and self-care.
The brain is made up of nerves. Its function is to take in information (input) decide what is important and relevant and then interpret the information so that we can perform an appropriate action in response to the input. This input is delivered to the brain by means of the senses.
You might know of 5 external sensory organs such as the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and skin, but did you know that we have 8 different sensory systems that feed our brain. Our brain has to integrate sensory stimuli from all 8 senses in order to interact appropriately with our environment and others. These sensory systems include: tactile (touch), auditory (sound), visual (sight), gustatory (taste), and olfactory (smell), the two hidden (internal) senses proprioception (muscle-joint awareness), vestibular (orientation in space) and lastly interoception (inside our body).
Our brain is constantly at work to receive, process and integrate all of those sensations without becoming too overwhelmed, distracted, or disengaged.
Even things that don’t seem “sensory stimuli”, are. Taking notes during a meeting, for example. In order to write, your brain must integrate a huge amount of sensory information: to remain upright in the chair (proprioceptive sense), to hold the pen with an appropriate grasp using the appropriate force (tactile and proprioceptive senses), to listen to the verbal conversation (auditory) and determine the relevance, to listen to different people around the table (auditory and vestibular – determining which person and where they are sitting in relation to you in the room) form the layout and order of the written note with adequate spacing and order (visual and vestibular senses), to sustain endurance throughout the meeting (vestibular and proprioceptive senses), to filter out distracting input (auditory senses).
Everybody processes sensory input in a different way and each person requires different amounts of sensory input to respond to the demands of the environment, maintain an appropriate level of engagement, and perform activities efficiently.
We often seek stimuli from our environment to function optimally within a situation without even thinking about it. For example, someone who is bored in a meeting might swivel her chair back and forth to help her pay attention better; someone who is nervous might calm her sensory system by chewing on gum or someone who is trying to stay alert will drink water every few seconds. This is not behavioral—the behaviors are simply a way of seeking stimuli through one’s senses to attempt to do whatever necessary to get back to a regulated/ calm alert state.
Some people are more sensitive to these sensory stimuli and they will reach their neurological threshold (how much they can tolerate before over-responding) very quickly. Other people take a while before they reach their neurological threshold and others seek stimulation constantly as they never reach a point of enough is enough to maintain a calm alert state of mind.
How many tot glasses will it take to fill this glass? See the tot glass as a sensory stimuli. Is your glass big like the one on the left or is your glass small and overflow quickly.
Our aim is to not become overloaded by the sensory stimuli in our environment as overload leads to anxiety, agitation, frustration, stress, annoyance, aggression or isolation.
Are you able to regulate your capacity to take sensory stimuli from your environment or do you get stressed/ overloaded/anxious easily?
The following table shows some of the possible different responses to sensory input. With Sensory Modulation Difficulties, the brain processes either too much (overresponsive) or too little (underresponsive) sensory information. People with Sensory Discrimination Disorder have difficulty telling the difference between sensory stimuli.
SERVICES
Identify how your senses impact your daily life
Looking to shake up your life? Your Sensory Self is here to provide you with all the tools you need in order to reach your goals. Our programs are strategically designed so that clients find meaningful and actionable takeaways. Explore our offerings below.
PAST CLIENT EXPERIENCES
The program helped me to understand myself and the impact the environment had on me, I was taught how to manage my senses and how to refocus to get my studies done
Mr. A (18)
I never realized how environmental inputs increase the stress I experienced. The program assisted me in managing my own senses which resulted in teaching me how to manage stress in my life
Mr. C (42)
The program assisted me in identifying what sensory inputs had an impact on my sleep, by following the program I was taught how to overcome my insomnia and improve my sleep patterns. Now I wake up energetic each morning, Thank you
Your Sensory Self
Miss. M (23)
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