Sensory work: when an individual uses relaxation and concentration exercises to delve into the senses, thereby healing them. The word ‘sensory’ as a healing modality crosses through a wide spectrum of psychology-based applications in modern clinical practice – for example, sensory integration therapy, sensorimotor therapy, and sensory interventions. While all of these applications include the basic theory that our senses are a string of neurological processes which take information from the environment and contribute to emotional regulation, learning, and participation in daily life, sensory work as an acting method does not treat any kind of disorder.

Although when used as a mind-body method in sensory acting technique it is diagnostic in that it helps uncover or identify the senses being used most often (being stimulated, taxed, or for excess) in daily life. By contrast, it also identifies senses that are not as active in working consciousness.