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Developing your Sense of Touch

‘It’s not a matter of whether you can feel such subtle movements, it’s a matter of how you reference what you are already feeling’.

Palpation is a very fine art which extends our innate senses of touch. The sensory organs in our finger tips, hands and physical proprioceptive mechanism combine to create a wealth of impressions. These need to become part of our educated reference through experience. It's not so much a matter of 'whether' we can feel such subtle influences, rather it is a matter of interpreting what we are already experiencing when we touch, move, vibrate or physically engage with another body. This takes time, patience and practice. Rather like the way a child develops a fine sense of hand/eye coordination, we need to create the opportunity for our neural and cortical connections to develop.

Our sense of touch is the least understood sense of all and yet it is our most powerful. It is well understood that the sense of taste on the tongue relies on only 4 different sensations, temperature, bitter, sweet and salt. To obtain more subtle appreciation of a particular taste our brain adds our sense of smell. This sensory 'picture' is extended by association with the other senses, of touch, vibration, sight and even sound if it adds to or improves the memory imprint of that particular ‘flavour pattern’. In the same way a wine connoisseur can determine the location and type of grape, and even the year of manufacture, these multi sensory associations help us to both clarify our memory and our understanding of the substance being tasted.

So, in order to learn how to develop our palpatory senses, we first need to understand what we are actually able to feel and then build a framework to reference the impressions we receive when touching another form. Anpatha technique provides a way of categorising these sensations. They are not meant to be ultimately or clinically definitive, rather they provide the first stepping stones to developing your own abilities. When you first begin to develop your palpatory skills you quickly find that there are also many sensations that fall outside of our usual physical references of Bones, Muscles, Tendons, Ligaments, Fascia, Viscera, Fluids, and Skin. Rather than ignore these 'extra' sensations, Anpatha incorporates them into the 'whole' by using the framework of elemental tension patterns. Learning to palpate with Anpatha, is not just about learning to palpate the physical body, it also relies on the ability to recognise, reference and palpate the 'perceptual' body as well.

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