What Happened with the Humanity in the Human Touch?
Sometimes language cannot make it really clear what we are attempting to express. Let us use “love” for our illustration. Love may be felt for your spouse, your baby, your work, your morning tea, your favorite shotgun, your heavenly father, or your country.
Clearly loving God is quite a different concept from loving your job. Love for your husband has little to do with love for your new hair style. We love all kinds of things and people, but the emotion is not the same. The word by itself does not have meaning.
It’s the same with “touch”. Your laptop computer might have a touchpad. There is no emotion in this type of mechanical touch. You can touch someone physically. Depending on your intention, this could range from friendly to aggressive to sexual.
A massage therapist can touch you in a clinical way. Then there are those therapists whose touch makes you feel like you are in heaven. A story or a movie can touch us intensely.
One word with more than one meaning. Professional touch, casual touch, sensual touch, emotional touch, mechanical touch, sexual touch, inappropriate touch…. Without knowing the context, “touch” does not mean anything. The meaning of a touch lies in our intention. Generally our intentions touching rules can be very different. It is normal for Arab men to exchange kisses on the cheek as a greeting, but European or American men would be shocked if another man tried to kiss them. Some cultures permit hugging, others totally shy away from it.
Touching among adults is quite a complicated subject. Most people love to be touched but are prevented from experiencing it due to cultural taboos, mind games, ill-intentioned people, shyness, or in some countries by the law. Massage therapy can be the perfect way to bypass all those cultural, moral or religious limitations and enjoy touch for what it can be – a deeply relaxing, healing and wonderfully pleasant experience.
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