Have you ever felt that you just understood the other person as they are, just grasped their way of seing life? Then you have used your sense of thought. 

Yes, you can sense your own think­ing as well as the think­ing of an­other. Last month, we ex­plored the sense of words but even deeper than words is the per­cep­tion of con­cepts. We did not dis­crim­i­nate it much last time. Now, we are ready to look into this more sub­tle level. For some peo­ple the level of words is what they re­late to. To per­ceive the other per­son’s way of think­ing is to get be­yond the words, to get even closer to the core of their iden­tity.
When Descartes for­mu­lated “cog­ito ergo sum” he un­der­stood the close con­nec­tion be­tween the think­ing and the aware­ness of an in­di­vid­u­al’s iden­tity.

This abil­ity to per­ceive the think­ing and the con­cepts they use to ex­press un­der­stand­ing and mean­ing, is glimps­ing be­hind the door of the words they use. You might even per­ceive their think­ing so deeply that you know other words that would de­scribe the mean­ing more pre­cisely.

If you know dif­fer­ent lan­guages you will know that cer­tain con­cepts can­not be ex­pressed to the same de­gree of ex­act­ness in one lan­guage while the other lan­guage has a very good con­cept.

Arthur Koestler (1905-1983) coined the term holon to de­scribe some­thing that is a whole­ness and a part of a big­ger whole­ness at the same time. Be­fore that that ex­act mean­ing could not be ex­pressed in one word. I have coined the term holonity to de­scribe the de­gree of har­mony with the next big­ger holon. The health you have on a phys­i­cal level is de­pen­dent on the health of the sum of each of your or­gans, the holonity of your or­gans. The health you have as an in­di­vid­ual is de­pen­dent of your har­mony with the fam­ily, the so­ci­ety and hu­mankind, that is your de­gree of holonity.

This is shar­ing my think­ing and un­der­stand­ing with you telling you more of who I am and what I think about re­al­ity. 
Re­ceiv­ing my think­ing de­fines a big as­pect of me. To­gether with the sense of hear­ing, the sense of speech  and the sense of self (com­ing next month) this sense of thought or con­cept en­ables you to per­ceive the iden­tity of the other hu­man be­ing. These are the senses that makes you an aware part of a big­ger holon, that makes you a con­scious so­cial be­ing, a per­son tak­ing re­spon­si­bil­ity for your ac­tions to­wards oth­ers. Tak­ing as much care of their well-be­ing as your own, tak­ing the big­ger pic­ture into con­sid­er­a­tion for your ac­tions.

Learn­ing to pic­ture what an­other per­son con­veys is the first step away from liv­ing in the il­lu­sion of your own sov­er­eignty. It is tran­scend­ing a child­ish per­cep­tion of be­ing right or hav­ing the only pos­si­ble opin­ion. This is the first step to­wards per­ceiv­ing that re­al­ity can be de­rived from dif­fer­ent per­spec­tives and lev­els of aware­ness. This steps cul­ti­vate your in­tu­ition, it cul­ti­vates your abil­ity to think new, to think dif­fer­ent, to find your own con­cepts and words and to re­al­ize that you never un­til now was able to per­ceive re­al­ity in this way. It cul­ti­vates your in­tu­ition.

Be­hind words there is con­cept, mean­ing or thought. When you start to look at re­lated con­cepts putting them to­gether in piles or when you start to try to find what two con­cepts have in com­mon, you tran­scend the word as­pect of the con­cept and get in-touch with the mean­ing as­pect. This process has two steps. First, you have it on the tip of your tongue, you sense it, you feel it, but then you have to con­cep­tu­al­ize it and give it a word. This dis­tinc­tion is the dis­tinc­tion that dis­crim­i­nates the sense of word and the sense of thought or con­cept. When you sense that more sub­tle part that we can call sense of thought, sense of con­cept or sense of mean­ing you are in touch with a big­ger holon. A mind that tran­scends the in­di­vid­ual mind, and hence you are con­nected to a big­ger holon and ac­quire a higher holonity.

Read other articles on integrative medicine here.
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Or read about the other senses:
The eye a ques­tion of per­spec­tive
Wis­dom is hid­den in the ears
Jus­tice a mat­ter of nose
Love comes out of the mouth
The sense of touch is the foun­da­tion of kind­ness
Do we have a sixth sense (pro­pri­o­cep­tion)
When all is well the sense of life gives you com­fort
The sense of bal­ance
The sense of warmth
The sense of speech/ word / lan­guage or mean­ing