What is the deeper meaning behind becoming aware and sensitive to touch? When we make physical contact with another person who is disconnected and detached, when there is touching but no consciousness associated with the touch – what comes back to us from that other living being is the same: detachment, disconnection and distance.
When we touch another living being with compassion, when the touch is “mindful” – what returns to us is the same: love, compassion and a deep connection. When I say “living being” I’m not just talking about persons.
Many of you are well aware of what it means to touch an animal; a dog, a cat or a horse. Horses, cats and dogs are no different humans; when we touch tenderly and lovingly what returns back to us is the very same delicious energy.
Let’s step down one level, for there is a deeper meaning to this particular challenge. To what extent are you mindfully connected in a loving way to your own body moment to moment?
- Are you disconnected?
- Are you disassociated?
- Do you refuse to send loving energy to every cell of your body?
- Are you angry at your body?
- Are you furious at what your body is doing to you?
Each time you have those thoughts, they convey an energy to every cell of your body that is not in your best and highest good.
What happens when you touch yourself, when you hold own hands? Is that done tenderly or is it done out of fear and anxiety?
What happens when you touch your knee? Is that done with disconnection without any knowledge of the fact that you are touching your knee, or as you touch your knee with your hand do you do so with intention, love and compassion as loving energy is sent to each and every cell in your knee?
How we treat objects and how we treat other people, and quite frankly how they treat us is a mirror image of our relationship with our own body. When we can become tender and loving and mindful of the messages that our body sends to us as we are touched moment by moment, by the sensations we receive and feel,
- We will be in communion with our body.
- We will be listening to the messages our body sends to us.
- We will know what is required for us to move into a place of full recovery; a place where symptoms cannot rear their ugly head.
Once we are mindful and loving and attentive and appreciative of all the messages our body touches us with, we are solidly on the road to recovery. When we remain detached, distant and uncommunicative with the messages that our body sends to us, we are out of touch. We are disconnected. In this place of disconnection there is little opportunity for true healing to unfold. We become detached from the signals our body so desperately wants us to receive and acknowledge.
Get in touch with your body. Be receptive to its messages. Welcome them. They are giving you the information you need to take the steps that are needed for you to come into your full power and manifest your destiny. The world is patiently waiting for you to show your full power.
Make it happen now. Be sensitive to touch. Be aware of the signals. Become intimately compassionate with the moment to moment messages your body sends to you, for you are continuously in touch with your body whether you acknowledge it or not.
Robert
© Parkinsons Recovery