Massage and Sensory Education

Sensory Word List

Name those Sensations! These sensory words can help you connect with - and communicate with - your body.

If you label an experience with more then a few words or short phrase, your thinking mind has hijacked the process.  When you notice that you are following a story-line, a memory, planning a shopping list - just say oops! and make a fresh start.   Be patient with yourself.  Notice a few sensations at a time, and notice how they change.

Achy Pressure
Breathless Present
Burning Pulsating
Calm Prickly
Centered Piercing
Clammy Quivery
Chill Quiet
Constricted Relaxed
Cool Rigid
Cold Restless
Disconnected Scratchy
Empty Secure
Exploding Sensitive
Electric Settled
Fidgety Shaky
Flowing Sharp
Fluttery Shivery
Full Slippery
Graceful Slow
Grounded Sluggish
Hard Smooth
Heavy Soft
Hollow Solid
Hot

Soothing

Inflated Sore
Intense Squishy
Itchy Sticky
Invigorated Stinky
Jammed Strong
Knotted Stuck
Limp Swollen
Loose Taut
Lightheaded Tender
Light

Throbbing

Mellow

Tingly

Moist Tight

 

 
Moving                             Tired  
Numb                               Trapped    
Nurturing                          Trembly  
Open                                Thick  
Painful                              Vibrating                
Paralyzed                         Warm                        
Peaceful                           Weak  
Pleasant                            Wobbly  
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