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- BlogDear Reader: Welcome to my very first blog! This blog represents the next step of faith in a journey I never could have imagined ten years ago, a path full of unexpected turns, rich discoveries and shared connections—personal connections to some of you who might be reading at this very moment, as well as a larger sense of shared practice, kinship, and brotherhood with many of you whom I will never meet. What I now call “Touch Practice” began as an effort to explore and heal my own body. I thought of it as something I created, something invented or made up, just for me. I slowly realized that while it was profoundly healing for me, it also seemed to have tremendous benefit for others, and so it became something for “we” rather than something just for “me.” I began to think of Touch Practice as a form of partnership. Next, I understood that something I imagined I had created or invented myself actually existed before I found it—Touch Practice is more accurately something I discovered, something I became aware of rather than creating. I came to understand that this aspect of touch has probably existed in an infinite variety…
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Sharpening
“Sharpening” and “softening” are two opposite techniques we can use to steer psychodynamic forces within groups. Both techniques can be applied skillfully or unskillfully to influence or manipulate behavior and experience. “Sharpening” is accomplished by intentionally exaggerating individual differences while minimizing or ignoring what we have …
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How Will It Go?
I’m impressed this week by how difficult it is to show up to our next experience, ANY experience, without having written, in some small way, an advance script of “how it will go.” This happens to me at work all the time. A meeting might …
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Where in the world….?
Sometime this week, TouchPractice.com will welcome its 20,000th reader. It seems like just yesterday I was struggling to come up with my first blog and learn how to paste images and format text; now, suddenly, I’m having trouble keeping them below 2,000 words. It’s been …
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The Energy Body
In last week’s blog, I mentioned that my left thigh is sometimes ticklish, or otherwise sensitive to touch, because it holds the residue of a traumatic injury to that part of my body from many decades ago. Many people practicing various modalities of touch–massage, Reiki, …
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Show me where it hurts
Mentally rehearse/imagine these situations happening to you, and pay particular attention to what you feel in your physical body even as you just pretend your way through these hypothetical scenarios: 1. You return to the lot where you parked your car before meeting friends for …
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Disappointing Me
Sometimes I find myself disappointing, and most of the time, I deal with that by not paying much attention to it. But in the spirit of Touch Practice (breathe, lean into the edge, accept all the parts of your experience) I decided to lean into …
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Holding people when you can’t touch them
I had a very interesting experience this week attending a reunion of my college fraternity. There were hundreds of guys from many different chapters ranging in age from undergrads through their 70’s from all over the country, but the vast majority of people in attendance …
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The Body Never Lies
The body is the only piece of original equipment in our human experience. Everything else is an add-on, something we build, import, synthesize, imagine, or acquire. The only part of you that is “original you” is your body. The rest is manmade. When a baby …
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