Welcome to the Slayer sessions with Shannon Ananga. Our mission is to wipe out the fear and discomfort of anxiety.

It's good to be back together with you this morning, Ananga, to further our conversation

about Ayurveda.

And I'm really looking forward to learning more about the senses and as you talk about senses and

sensibility as an exercise in self-study. So tell me more about Ayurveda and

the senses.

Ayurveda has a very interesting way of describing the senses.

It calls them the knowledge acquiring senses.

And it's very clear about the purpose they serve for us.

Everyone knows we have five senses of taste, touch, sight, sound and smell.

So the reason Iravator describes these as the knowledge acquiring senses is that the purpose of these senses is to bring information to the mind, to our intelligence and to our awareness about our external environment.

But the trouble is with the day and age we're living in now where everything has become so

busy and we're operating at a fast pace and as we've talked about many times in our previous interviews

were distracted and we're overloaded with information.

Then our senses not just the knowledge acquiring senses but they're the stress delivering

senses because instead of us just hearing the sounds of nature or being aware of the

taste of the food we're eating or the temperature of our body the information that the senses are feeding back to the mind

for us to process and deal with.

Very often the natural sensations that they're supposed to be bringing to us are overridden

by a desire to get things done, get through our

working day. And so they're delivering us all kinds of extra information and what basically

happens is we get mental indigestion. We can take it all in we can't process it all and

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