Touch is the first and most fundamental form of communication/love that we experience while still in our mother's womb. It is the first physical form of communication we encounter and has a key role in shaping our base states of security/peace/love.
Your own touch is one of the best ways to become present/secure.
A SELF HUG
5-10 minutes before going to bed, hug yourself and just stay in this hug.
As early as 5th minute, you will start to feel peace and security.
You will begin to feel that you are in safe hands.
Do this every day for at least 5-10 minutes.
Over time, this feeling will build up and begin to build a sense of basic security within you.
You can use the same technique while holding your hand. Especially in more emotional moments for you.
First, you will feel support, stability and security. They will make you feel relaxed - just like a hug.
Second, you'll feel what it's like to always have someone holding your hand. The literal physical presence and the love, happiness and intimacy of it.
You can do the same with:
STROKING YOUR OWN FACE / FEET / HANDS / HEAD / BODY
KISSING YOUR OWN HANDS
A TAP ON YOUR OWN SHOULDER
BECOME AWARE OF YOUR OWN TOUCH
THE SAME GOES FOR THE OTHERS
By realizing the power of touch, you can give this form of love and support more often to others around you, where appropriate. You can hug your loved ones, kiss your partner, parents, children more often, hold their hand and caress or pat them on the shoulder.
You can also become aware of your contact with others and the world around you and deeply feel your bodily sensations when this happens. Right where your own physical boundary ends and someone else's begins. When you consciously focus on your bodily sensations in this way, you will quickly begin to feel your UNITY with everything around you. When your eyes are closed and the shape of the other person/object cannot be seen - in the bodily sensations of touch - all is one.
Try to focus on your back or hips where you touch the chair you are sitting on. And you will immediately feel the lack of a border in the touch sensation.
This physical experience of the ONE will bring you stability, peace, security, love. Especially if you do it more often.
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