Our sense of Touch....

Ok guys, two senses left, and they are big ones. I am now on to the sensation of touch. Touch, can produce many sensational feelings. For this blog, I am using the definition of sensation to be: a state of excited interest or feeling. A touch can cause a person to be in a state of excitement or a feeling of elation. It certain touch can cause a feeling of elated fear or happiness. Now that we have that straight lets get to the sense of touch.
I remember the first time I touched my daughter's cheek after giving birth. I kept rubbing her soft cheek feeling the moment for what it was, a miracle. I was touching my daughter whom nine months before never existed in our crazy world. Now, due to the act of her father touching me in a physical manner, that caused us to get physical in a sexual way, I was now touching the miracle that resulted from that first touch.
Really how did it all begin, how did I conceive a child, how did child grow inside my body, and then enter the world. I first saw Kenzie's father, then I heard his voice, then I smelled his cologne, we talked we touched, deep feelings ensued, and the next thing you know I am holding my daughter, and touching the softest surface I have ever had the pleasure of rubbing my thumb across. All five senses worked together to bring my child, and subsequent children into my world.
Remember as a an elementary student your teacher taking you outside to gather different objects from nature. We would bring the objects inside and compare how they felt to our touch, and what did that make us feel like inside. By the way,I didn't go to a montessori school, just a lovely elementary school in Grayslake, IL called Woodview. That day, even though we didn't know it, we were made to use one of our senses, touch, and connect it to our sense of feeling. Slowly, throughout the years we built our lives around our senses.
When someone gives you hug, their touch can lift spirit from utter despair to a moment of feeling safe. How great does that feel to feel safe when at the moment, I don't think many people are feeling very safe. Give someone a hug. Ahhh, a kiss. A kiss can give goosebumps, it can send an electric feeling through your body, you can actually feel the need to sit down you are so overcome with emotion, or that kiss could make you feel sick, it could make you want to run and cry.
What happens when you touch your dog or cat? For me, I feel nothing when I touch my dog. When I touch my cat I feel connected, and end up smothering my face in my cat's neck. After I have smelled my cat I hug my cat so tight he feels the need to claw at me to get out of my grip. But I don't care, for a few moments the world stopped,and I was elated to be touching, smelling, and listening to my cat. Another moment of what life is about for me, joy that I feel from my senses. Do not fret, I will elaborate in much more detail how the five senses shape your life in my next and final blog.
When you are talking to someone are you toucher? If you are not a toucher, you have probably had a conversation with a toucher, and that conversation either made you very nervous or very comfortable. Can you guess what I am? I am a toucher. But I also can feel someone's emotions by seeing the look on their. If I am a making them uncomfortable I will stop touching their arm to make a point. It is interesting to me how different people with different backgrounds respond to another persons touch.
Is it because the only way they were touched as a child was in a negative way. Were they physically or sexually abused? Or where they hugged and held in a loving manner? Or were they never touched? If you were never touched as a child you are not comfortable with the feeling of a touch as an adult. Do you see why the sense of touch can really shape a person's life?
I am going to leave with you this; hug with love, kiss with passion, hold someone with warmth in your heart that makes their life meaningful and full of love, and never touch anyone, child or adult, that causes hurt, harm, or pain to that person's spirit and emotions, because if you do you are making that person's life one that feels as if they are living in the depths of hell!