SHARING THROUGH TOUCHING
by: Frank Schuster
Energy Healer
520-721-2456

If we would try to identify one idea basic to all peoples of the world, it would likely be the concept of sharing. Sharing is so fundamental to existence that it is instinctual. However, it is far from playing any significant role in personal, social and business affairs. How do we get people to realize that sharing, when implemented worldwide would transform everyone and everything? One answer may be to begin an organized exchange of touch therapy.

As children, we all are taught to share what we have with others and for the most part, we willingly do it. It is a simple way to teach brotherly love. However, as we grow up in our materialistic societies, the natural inclination to share is replaced by hoarding and selfishness. Giving and sharing are done grudgingly. Complacency develops that says nobody owes anybody anything.

Yet, during emergencies people immediately rally together to give aid and comfort. The desire to share in such circumstances flows naturally and miracles happen. The spontaneous impulse to share finds clear focus in helping those suffering from tragedy. If this kind of sharing were part of our everyday attitude, there would truly be miraculous changes in our world. All men would become brothers working together to quickly solve the problems of the world.

What can be done to regain this profound sense of inter-connectedness that we had as children and lies dormant within us?

One answer may be found in the practice and sharing of a special kind of touch therapy. Touch is an indication of unity that conveys empathy, love, support and recognition. Through a gentle, loving touch, we demonstrate sharing. Touching therapeutically can help awaken within us the knowledge of our oneness.

One person sharing a healing touch with another sends the message, “I care about you.” This silent exchange recalls a basic desire to know that we are loved. It gives us a sense of belonging. This type of touch can be as simple as a hug, the nurturing touch of a mother, or a system of touching specific points on the body.

It is the concept of using a system of touch therapy that is proposed here. The idea is to share a simple system of touching in a prescribed manner, with loving intent to comfort, relieve stress or assist in the healing of a physical or emotional problem. A deliberate, mutually agreed upon activity of one person touching another by a learned method will do more to promote brotherly love and sharing than any system of teaching that promotes the same. Something wonderful happens when this gentle, loving touch occurs. Touching promotes calmness, reduces stress, restores balance of mind and body, and elicits a feeling of well being.

Man has known for centuries about the value of touch in the healing process. In fact, it is more than knowledge; it is instinctive to touch oneself or another to sooth and heal injuries, and relieve emotional trauma. Recall the last time you received an unexpected blow to the body or cut in the skin. You likely immediately touched the injured area. You would do the same for your child. Why not decide in advance to regularly and systematically touch therapeutically? Why not act according to our natural abilities and help reduce the ongoing mental, emotional and physical stress of day-to-day living? To do so is an act of sharing on the highest level that would pay real dividends.

Above all, we must be about aiding and comforting one another in our journey through life. Touch therapy can help accomplish this by gradually bringing us to the realization that we are one in the bond of love. Each has a right to be and live in joyful harmony, contributing creativity and purpose to life. Such is the ultimate in sharing that will transform the world.