When my third grade teacher announced that we have 5 senses—sight, sound, touch, smell and taste—I thought ‘that’s not right.’ I was mostly reacting because of interoception, what you feel from the inside. There’s the muscular and fascial sensation of stress and strain, —or relaxation, brought to us through the nervous system (proprioception). But don’t forget immune, vascular and endocrine information-gatherers and the way these operate within the astonishing architecture of the fascia. This information is synthesized—in the brain, in the gut, by the vagal nerve, in the heart. The data comes from everywhere and the communication and negotiations about assessments and next steps are constant. The assessment comes to you as a feeling: Ease. The need to pee. Arousal. Fatigue. Pain. Elation. Heat or cold. Balance. The passage of time. So, yeah, there’s more than 5 senses. Heck there are more than a dozen specialized sensors just for finding thresholds! And the next steps? Those are potentially much more influenceable than you might have thought.