There’s something really important for us to be aware of, and it’s a big part of the workshops this weekend.
The Touch Within The Touch.
It’s important because most of our communication is not verbal. In fact only about 30% is.
That’s one of the reasons that touch is so important, and more so, what’s in the touch.
What does that really mean?
Touch is a language, a language of the body, that has a knowing beyond words.
Something in me, in myself being, reads, hears, feels, knows what’s in your touch.
Knows the intention of your touch.
And that space inside of me responds to that.
If your touch is present, if it’s loving, if it’s tender, I’ll feel that.
Maybe not consciously.
But, and this is what matters, subconsciously.
Which means that my body, my body, picks that up.
And opens or closes, relaxes or contracts, reaches out to meet you, or subtly, draws away.
It’s the Touch Within The Touch.
We bring so much to every one of our experiences of touch, of massage, of sensuality, of sexuality.
We bring a story, we bring our past, we bring the experiences that we’ve had, we bring expectations, and most of these are subconscious. We’re just not aware of them.
Our bodies are aware of them, very aware.
Our hearts are aware of them.
And our energy is aware of them.
These are things that make up the Touch Within The Touch.
And because touch, is a conversation, a language that goes beyond words, these carry the quality of the experience.
The quality as in the presence, the caring, the awareness, the Heart Connection, that’s in the touch.
The Touch Within The Touch carries where we are to our partners, what’s within us, what are we expressing.
It’s an expression of energy, that rises from inside of us to our hands, and through the contact, into our partner, regardless of the relationship we have, personal, professional, client, friend, lover.
And inside of them is a knowing of what this touch is.
When we’ve experienced a Heart Touch, when we’ve experienced a Conscious Touch, when we’ve experienced touch as a sacred expression, when we’ve felt the Divine within us through touch, we know.
And then we become aware of the Touch Within The Touch.
One thing that comes from this awareness is how much of learning, and doing, massage, in whatever form, in whatever way we do, is an inner journey. And how this makes it a spiritual journey, a healing journey, a growth journey for ourselves.
We open a space with this awareness, a space within us, and a space for our partner.
A space for the experience, allowing both of us to be with what emerges, what arises.
A Heart Space, of love.
And in this space, regardless of the relationship, we make love.
