As we all know, there is bad touch and there is good touch. Well… there is only one bad touch that make others feel bad, depressed or results in fight. With so many rascals on the road, it’s better to teach our kids the difference between bad touch and good touch at an early age. I’ll leave that to the parents and move on to many good touches we encounter in our lives….
Touch of mother: Touch is a great way to bond with new born baby and it makes the baby feel secure. Infant massage is another form of touch that has so many advantages for baby’s well being.
Not only new born babies, even big babies sleep well for mother’s massage in her lap. I feel like sleeping in my mother’s lap now :-).
Here is an interesting story about mother’s touch: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38988444
Doctor’s touch: Touch is one of the vital tool used by doctors to understand patient’s health.
A mother can almost always predict kid’s fever before it shows up on thermometer…. that’s mother’s special touch and her sixth sense. My husband always wondered how I could be so sure of an upcoming fever. I always tell him, "you got to be a mommy to understand that special touch" ;-).
Touch as a vital sense: Out of five senses in our body (sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch), touch is something that is not associated with single part, sense of touch is found all over the body.... thanks to our skin to carry signals to the brain.
I truly enjoyed watching the movie BLACK directed by Sanjay Leela Bansali and great performance by Rani Mukherjee. It depicts how a person who is blind, deaf and dumb uses touch as a means to communicate with the surroundings.
Touch to get blessings: As per Hindu customs, we touch our elder’s feet to show respect and get their blessings. Nowadays, we are too worried to bend down completely and touch the feet... sometimes we adjust by just touching the knees…. it could be our fat tummies that won’t allow us to bend 180 degrees. But there is a hidden exercise in bending our body ;-).
Touch to scare ghost: OK….I have a Ghost story to share. Sounds interesting…. isn’t it? Not sure if it was a Ghost or something else, but I had this experience when I was in my teens and it happened around 5 to 6 times. Never got a chance to experience it after that…ok… here is the story….
When I used to sleep on my back… that too after midnight (Oooooo…can you hear the wolf sound ;-)), I could feel something sitting on my chest. After that, I absolutely had no control on my body, but mind still working. Each time it happened, I tried my best to move myself…..but in vain…I couldn’t even blink my eyes. With no fear for Ghosts (of course, we are Ghosts wrapped in flesh), I was very curious, if I can ever see it or at least move myself. This is one of the out of body experience I had in my life. This happened for few months and then no more.
One thing was very interesting, it happens only after midnight and that too, when everyone is asleep. The moment my mother (who used to be in deep sleep ;-)) TOUCHES my body, I’m back to life. Not sure what TOUCH has to do with this phenomena. It is still an open question to me. Would like to know if any of my blog readers had similar experience in their life.
On Wikipedia, they call it Sleep Paralysis. They say it could be result of insomnia….but I never had sleeping problem in my teens. I wonder why it happened only in the night? If it was sleep paralysis, why it didn’t happen during the day and why it went away with touch of my mom?
Touch to express love: Who will forget the first touch by their partner. Touch is one of the beautiful way to express love. Not just direct touch, even touching an object touched by lover elevates the other person to heaven :-).
Touch for reproduction: Touch and hormones are the building blocks used by God for creature reproduction....with test tube baby being an exception.
Touch products: Nowadays everyone wants touch screen…whether it be mobile phone, laptop or TV…everything is bitten by touch concept. Electronic gadgets are competing with each other to feel the touch of human being. btw, I like the ad by Karbonn k1212 that says DO NOT TOUCH.
OK…OK Punya stop now. Looks like I can write an entire book on TOUCH. Still there are so many touches to write… touch to calm animals, stories of touch by famous gods etc…etc…Anyways, I’ll leave them to the readers now… but one last touch before I stop….
Touch to heal: Few years back, my husband broke his femur and was hospitalized for 12 days. We both tried our best to control our tears in front of kids…. one of the real ACTION taught by God. Being all by ourselves, I had to take care of kids in the morning and once they fall asleep in the night, rush to the hospital to stay with my husband by his side…holding his hands most of the time.
One day, he felt pity on me and requested me to stay home. Next day morning, when I visited him, he bursted into tears like a baby.... and requested me to stay by his side. It’s not the pain that made him cry….but the missing touch. TOUCH definitely has healing effect on our souls http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapeutic_touch.
I would like to THANK all my friends, co-workers and neighbors who extended their enormous help during those tough times.
And to all my friends in US, HAPPY THANKSGIVING and safe BLACK FRIDAY!!
When you get time, do watch the beautiful performance by Mouni Roi for Saiyyan Saiyyan song ….the song that is an inspiration for this blog post.
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