The touch,
The lovely soothing touch,
says it all.
I love the way mamma hugs me every time I need one. And the way Nikhil tickles me whenever I am depressed. And the way dad keeps his hand on my shoulder whenever I need his advice.
Well now,
this is not just a feeling. I am sure it works wonders with emotional illness, or feelings untouched.
Also, supporters of the 'touch therapy' claim that it can even cure physical illnesses like diabetes n heart ailments. Some people say that it is based on "the Einstein paradigm of a complex energetic field-like universe" (i.e., the existence of a Life energy flowing through and around all of us).
Whatever it is, I have always felt that my weakness and illness reduces so much once my mom comes and sits near me and places her hand on my forehead. It brings on a sweet smile on my face and I feel so much lighter. :)
The theory is that people who are ill have disturbed energy fields which need to be redirected. This can be done by moving trained hands over the person's body to create energy balance. And this is done without any physical contact!!!
Isn't it amazing?
Although there is no scientific research done to support the theory, but a study, initially proposed by a sixth grade girl for her science class, was conducted and published in JAMA( April 1 1998 ).
This was what I found on one of the sites: (http://your-doctor.com/patient_info/alternative_remedies/various_therapy/touch.html)
The question posed by the young investigator was simple:
Can experienced practitioners of therapeutic touch, when blindfolded, accurately identify a person's "energy field?" 21 practitioners were tested. In each test, participants were asked to identify whether a young girl had placed her hand close to their left or right hand.
By chance alone, the practitioners should have received a score of 50 percent. If the practitioners had the abilities to sense "energy fields," as they claim, they would have answered correctly 100 percent of the time. They got 44 percent correct — somewhat less than chance alone.
The authors concluded that therapeutic touch is "groundless".
But then can't it be just by chance, I mean, just one test can't determine the future of a whole science. Maybe it is just because we don’t have proper technology to prove it.
After all, according to science, even God does not exist. Nobody has seen or touched or proved his presence.
I remember reading a mail once wherein a student proves to his teacher that even 'death' does not exist.
Confused???
The professor claimed that according to science, God does not exist, because nobody has seen, touched, smelt or felt him. Nobody has heard him talk. So according to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says GOD doesn't exist.
To this, let’s have a look at what the student said:
Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Prof: Yes.
Student: And is there such a thing as cold?
Prof: Yes.
Student: No sir. There isn't.
(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)
Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, super heat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
Same applies to darkness and death. Darkness is non existent. It is just the absence of light. And death??? Just the absence of life. Isn't it???
But science admits the existence of all these. Can you answer why????
Then after this, the mail had an awesome argument...
Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain?
(The class breaks out into laughter.)
Student: Has anyone ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
Well coming back to the point, even in the Vedic literature, we find mentions of energy fields of the body in the Indian culture. We touch our elder’s feet. Ever thought why?
It is because energy is supposed to radiate out from the toes and when you touch it, you can absorb a part of that intellectual energy. The tilak and the bindi in Indian culture are for a similar reason-to stop radiance of the energy of the mind from the point where it is maximum.
I’ll tell you about an incident that happened to me. I was about to leave for Pilani when I went to my grandpa to bid goodbye. As I bent down to touch his feet he placed his hand on my hair and said “khush raho”. Instantly I felt the power he had delivered to me for parting from home, ma’s lap and dad’s parasol. The blessings he wanted to give, the bliss he wanted to transfer……… everything.
I felt it……….. In me. Have you ever felt it??? It may be just a psychological feeling, but it exists, doesn’t it?
Whoa!!!
Well this has become too long I guess.
I feel it works… it really works, if not for the heavy ailments then at least for the illness which I would call emotional. In today’s running life, people tend to miss out on the small bits of happiness delivered by the seemingly insignificant things like the lovely touch of your child (pronounce it as tchhaa-aay-aldh to get the feel of the innocence) or the finger wiping off the pearl-tears…….. This is what I call ‘the touch therapy’. These are the things that cost millions…….. Wait…….. They are priceless....
Have you ever felt the radiance some people have? And the liveliness you feel when they are around or the energy they transfer to you when they deliver a vibrant handshake or rather a perfect hug?
Have you ever felt the serenity that you receive in moments of distress when you are sitting all alone and someone comes and takes your hand in their, their other hand on your forehead and then making it move gently past through your hair, and you look at them with eyes thanking loads already when you or them haven’t said a word still????? Have you ever felt that, that one moment has the whole life come inside it as if it was a cocoon, as if life feels very safe in there, like as if it has been running to win some worthless race and it realizes its mistake then, inside that very cocoon of time?
……………I have………………
