I may be showing my age here...but when I was a child, there was a telephone company that had a jingle on their TV advertisement that went "Reach out, Reach out and touch someone!" Basically it was encouraging people to call one another and "keep in touch." What an interesting phrase "keep in touch."
It is common practice in LMT school to work on your classmates and be worked on. What has been fascinating to me is that EVERYONE's touch is different. Two people do not give the same massage--even if they were taught by the same teacher, use the same strokes and work in the same order. Everyone's touch is different. What makes this so? I think part of the reason it feels so different is related to energy--emotional presence. If you work on your own muscles--you are both the giver and reciever--there is no engagement with another's energy or emotional presence. Our body registers the difference. When another person works on you--their person/presence--their "touch" impacts you. I am becoming fully convinced when you touch a body you touch a soul/spirit. Humans are not disembodied spirits floating around. Our spirit infuses our whole person--so that when you "reach out and touch someone" you are not just touching their body--but you are touching their essence.
