TOUCH AS A LIFELINE
COURSE INTRODUCTION
This 7-day course uses touch to bring us into the present moment and away from difficult thoughts and feelings. We experiment with different aspects of experience to find our own unique ways of helping our self.
Feel free to read the words and try out the invitations, or use the audio and video guided practices. There are teaching clips to explain in a bit more detail about how touch might help. You can print off the tick chart pdf and fill it in to help keep track of what you are finding useful.
Use as much or as little feels helpful.
Inspirational Poem
Linda France: Dreaming the real
I’m lying down looking at the colour
of sky falling through trees, dreaming
the real, tasting what it feels like to love it.
Why did it take me so long to let go, simply
exhale, so the day could breathe itself in
and open without me standing in the way?
How could I forget the grace of my own body,
strong as this blue, tender as the white
of the wild blossom, warm as midday light?
Let me practise a patience bold enough
to hold every weather, trusting the elements,
the beauty of rain, all its shades of grey.
I want whatever’s real to be enough. At least
it’s a place to begin. And to master the art
of loving it; feel it love me back under my skin.
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