Instead we can choose to practice sensing. Sensing means noticing—with our heads and our hearts—what’s really going on. We can sense what’s happening in the room, what’s happening in a relationship, even what’s happening in our own bodies. Avoiding a colleague because you subconsciously feel judged by them is not progress. Noticing that you feel that way, naming it, and working on it (ideally with them) is sensing and responding.