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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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Asheville Update
For today, just an informational update rather than anything too in depth. Besides, we’re coming up on the shortest, darkest day of the year, and while I know there are still 24 hours in every day, I don’t know about you, but my days feel really …
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Refraction!
4As far as Touch Practice is concerned, I seem to have entered a period of profound reflection. At least that’s how I would describe it. Then a few weeks ago, one of my practice brothers and friends, a scientist, said, “I think you’re in a …
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Love it, Hate it, Meh: Spiritual Practice and Reactive Engagement, part two
In my last blog, I talked about the predictable phases of almost any spiritual practice, and how the mature phase of spiritual practice often is acquired only after traversing the mountain of fanaticism as well as the valley of profound disenchantment. In response to that …
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Spiritual Practice and Reactive Engagement
I’m spending the weekend at one of my spiritual homes, a place where I have deep roots, a place which has fed and nourished me over the years. I’ve been thinking about my other spiritual homes along the way–the Catholic church, into which I was …
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Leadership, Power, and Touch
All of us have met someone we perceive as a “powerful” person. And each of us at one time or another has felt “powerful” in a situation. While there are many different ways to define and describe what we’re talking about here, one of my …
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News from TouchPractice.com!
Hello friends! These past months have been a whirlwind for me. I’ve been taking a break from the more educational or topical style of blogs that I typically write, enjoying some good summer weather (a bit early!) and even having a real, solid vacation. Life …
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Fear, Part Two: Feeling it
I want to follow up today on two recent blog topics–one about bullying, the other about fear–by reporting one of the most interesting and useful spiritual journeys I have taken in perhaps the past five years. The very simple exercise that I engaged was, “what …
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All things are connected
This blog follows from an exquisite Touch Practice last Friday where, after only a few minutes had passed, I had the sense that I was with a close friend that I had not seen for a very long time. My partner reported a similar experience, …
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LOCKDOWN!
Living in Boston this week was…. Let’s just say it provided some material for reflection. What was particularly interesting, stressful, anxiety-making, for me, was yesterday. Yesterday, Boston was locked-down, with a stay-in-place order. Everything that could close down, was closed down. Mass transit. Taxi service. …
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Chasing the First High
The phrase “chasing the first high” comes from addiction medicine, where the addict will return to a substance over and over again hoping to duplicate that first euphoric experience. But often, that first high is never to be had again. Subsequent experiences are never quite …
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