Touch is a special sense for me. I greatly value all my senses, but it is touch that most effecrively puts me in touch with the infinite universe, infinite space, infinite consciousness. The sensation of touch itself does not have that effect, but my awareness of the sense of touch reveals a deeper awareness. Touch, as known, is a sensory doorway to the infinite.
Touching need not be anything excetional for me. It can be as simple as touching the keys connected to my computer. Touch can be stimulated by placing my fingers on the table or door frame when my hourly bell rings, encouraging me to be mindful. Touch becomes a sensory doorway when I put my hand on someone’s upper arm or the small of their back. A hug is a dramatic opening to a vast universe. In an instant, I experiece the universe acting. Every moment in a hug is an infinite moment that defies the limits of time.
I am aware that the universe acts in an integral manner. Every moment is an encounter with the infinite, timeless action of the universe. Touch, better than any other of my senses, puts me in touch with the power that surges from the timeless action of the universe.
Touching someone’s hand or any part of their body allows me to feel the great energy that has been there for all time, for as long as time has existed. In that moment, I experience the universe, not as a thing, but as a mode of being. I have the opening to surrender and cascade into that mode of being. I become aware that I am one with it all, I am infinitely connected.
It hasn’t always been this way for me. For most of my life, I have seen the world through a veil of my own making. Touch seldom went beyond the sensory apparatus of my own body. I may have enjoyed the sensation of touch, my sensations of touch reflected more my notion of me and that shaped my notion of the world. That veil has become thinner, and I think I am beginning to see the universe as much more than a reflection of me and less as an imagined shape of the world around me.
To experience the dynamic, expansive universe, touch has become very important to me.