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Michael Ashcroft
@m_ashcroft
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@Triquetrea
Sounds like the same kind of deal. Does this fit? Your hands become not just a 'doing' to your girlfriend, there's a quality of listening as well. This is a non-doing touch, even though you're massaging. It's like there's a non-verbal communication between your system and hers.
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Michael Ashcroft
@m_ashcroft
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@m_ashcroft
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@Triquetrea
The best prompt I've found to teach this is to ask an AT teacher trainee to put their hand on someone and not do anything at all, just listen. "Let you hand be shaped by their back." This is the quality of physical listening that activates the connection I mean.
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Michael Ashcroft
@m_ashcroft
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@Triquetrea
Haha AT is just a systematised way of accessing things that I suspect are accessible to everyone, it's just that i) we don't know that these things exist ii) we don't know how to access them if we did iii) we don't know what to do with it once we have the skill!
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Cinder
@Triquetrea
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@m_ashcroft
Yeah. For me the main sense I had when I first got into this stuff was that I'd made some sort of disjunction from just "meditating". These exercises feel qualitatively different from the meditation I was taught/self-taught. I'm happy to realize I'm not the only explorer.
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Michael Ashcroft
@m_ashcroft
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@Triquetrea
Yes fair enough, one can be accessed by the other. I guess I'm just saying that someone who is experienced in meditation could have no clue that this exists. So for sure they are overlapping in the Venn diagram, but the extent to which they overlap may be minimal.
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