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October 2009 
Touch is a Profound & Important Instrument
Posted on May 23rd, 2007
by 
Leendert
Leendert
I do not like to touch everybody! But within the inner circle of people that are close, my child, my (ex)- wife, my family, my friends, my co-workers, good clients, people I trust, spiritual friends, you know that kind of people! One of my good friends and partners Frank S. and I treat each other as if we are brothers in the truest form, the creativity and energy bursts out of the room when we are working together. So my point is Touch in the literal form and metaphorically are profound tools and I try to use them well. Touch in a physical form has healing qualities still unknown to many. When you look at animals and youngsters for example young lions, have you ever seen......? Touch, play, fight a little, grow....~
Knowledge of how and when to touch, is very, very important because a Lioness or Lion can scratch or bite if done wrong or inappropriate. People in western cultures are not used to touch anymore, they are afraid of touch. I see loneliness, people locking themselves up, shutting them down from the other instead of gathering around the fire.
Almost everyday I meet someone significant. Anywhere. We talk, we recognise, we laugh, we touch...it is a form of philos love creating an enormous amount of energy for me. By doing this I know (from 1/2 conversations) a lot of people in my town. It's nice, I always meet them again somewhere......
Leendert van Velsen
Knowledge of how and when to touch, is very, very important because a Lioness or Lion can scratch or bite if done wrong or inappropriate. People in western cultures are not used to touch anymore, they are afraid of touch. I see loneliness, people locking themselves up, shutting them down from the other instead of gathering around the fire.
Almost everyday I meet someone significant. Anywhere. We talk, we recognise, we laugh, we touch...it is a form of philos love creating an enormous amount of energy for me. By doing this I know (from 1/2 conversations) a lot of people in my town. It's nice, I always meet them again somewhere......
Leendert van Velsen
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Boy, I can't wait until I get to write about THIS!! Seriously, I agree 1000%, especially with men in the Western World. Touch is a no-no. We have become so used to men NOT displaying platonic affection to one another that we have forgotten how bizarre this STRONG adversion is! That's one reason I love Zaadz, most all of the men in our special group have no problem talking and expressing emotion to me, a gay man. They are secure in who they are, either gay or straight or whatever and are just plain nice!
I was in front of the Apple store on University Ave. in downtown Palo Alto, California, USA, two days ago and I struck up a conversation with a family – as it turned out, an uncle, his nephew, the nephew’s wife, and the nephew and his wife’s daughter – and before I knew it the Uncle had put his hands on my shoulders and squeezed them and he was laughing and saying things like “This is all a different language to me what you young people were talking about.” (The nephew then informed me that his Uncle was actually a well-known scientist and chip innovator from Israel.)
Well, I felt really seen, really engaged, really loved, by this man who didn’t know me, but who had no trouble reaching out and making contact with me. Silly to say, perhaps, but I fell in love with this older man’s generousity of spirit, with his ease and the simplicity of how he reached out to me.
I will probably never see him again, but I will always feel affected by this short, easy, intense, loving, encounter.