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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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Making It Personal
2Something that has been inspiring, rewarding and educational for me these past few weeks is hearing from people who have experienced Touch Practice, either individually or in a workshop, who have then gone on to establish their own practice in one form or another. I …
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Managing Emotional Pain
In the process of holding and sitting with many men, as with my own life, I’ve noticed different approaches for managing emotional pain. Most of us use all of these strategies at one time or another. Each strategy can be effective, or ineffective, depending on …
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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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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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Getting Off (with pictures!)
Yeah, this post is about exactly what you think it’s about. Yes: ejaculation. If you came from another planet and were to carefully observe human behavior, you might think that if a human male becomes aroused to the point of erection, that condition constitutes a medical …
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Memory, Fantasy, Reality, and Time
Eckhart Tolle’s brilliant book The Power of Now argues compellingly that the only thing that really exists, at all, is the thing we experience as “right now,” this moment. I think this book is insightful, and on one level I completely agree with him. The power of being …
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