 We're talking about physical touch and the importance of this a good example of a modality that uses a lot of this is something like EFT and EFT if you're if you're not familiar with it It uses various points around your body where you just start to tap onto these points You move around very very slowly and you start to Talk to the fear or maybe the anxiety or distress that's there And it's a way to kind of gradually wind down the nervous system, which is aggravated To calm it down very very slowly, but touching this is very very important now a lot of these EFT for instance there has been some kind of questioning about well why these specific points? Why do we touch these points and not different points? That's a big question, but there has been a lot of research done on it That has shown that it's very very effective this this treatment or this approach to kind of self soothing came about as a treatment measure for sufferers of PTSD so these were war veterans for instance and they would come back and talk therapy was not all that helpful for them So this was kind of a modality that has been very very useful for PTSD now What I would say about this the way I kind of explain why it's helpful for people as a Thing to add to maybe talk therapy or something like that is well How do we calm down the nervous system once it's aggravated? And the way I put it to them is well, how would you calm down a dog? let's say you had a pet dog right and There's a thunder and lightning storm outside now that the dog is terrified the dog runs in under the table And you're trying to get the dog out now you don't Look at the dog in that situation and explain look statistically speaking. It's very unlikely There's going to be any danger here. The dog won't respond to that. It doesn't respond to words It doesn't respond to working with the thoughts right what you do with the dog hopefully is you use soothing tone of voice and You may be pet the dog very slowly and eventually it feels safe enough to come back out again The other question I usually add to that is well How would you how would you calm down an angry crocodile if you came across one? if you're unfortunate enough to come across an angry crocodile, how would you how would you calm it down and The correct answer to that is you wouldn't you wouldn't even try because there's a difference between the reptile and the mammal and humans are mammals We have the same limbic system as As the dog and this is where all our emotions are. It's very much pre-verbal so Touch for mammals is essentially important. Okay? We're this is kind of above the old the very old ancient reptilian brain that we have and It's before the the neocortex where all our language capacity is in that center that midbrain It's the the limbic system which we're trying to kind of soothe and it responds very very well to touch So EFT you can there's loads of resources on that you can look up EFT as As a way to kind of calm down any Aggravated emotions within the nervous system even trauma or PTSD or anxiety things like that but also Just I found in in therapy Touch beyond even EFT is very important So let's say you're able to start to feel into your body more now and you're doing more body work And you're you're finding out where the sensations are arising. Maybe old traumas are located in certain areas just to actually start to lay your hands on The areas in which you're feeling it strongly and made it may feel like there's something Constricted or it may feel like there's a block there or something very very intense in a particular specific area of your body to start laying your hands on that is very very soothing and very very helpful and you'll often see people who are very much sort of dissociated from their body and And Maybe the render their head a lot is that they very rarely do that. So it's a very interesting thing to become aware of but to integrate that into our practice into our healing and our recovery is Hugely hugely helpful. Also, even, you know, if you're in a relationship with somebody it can be very helpful to To ask that person to give you more physical touch. It can be really really helpful to calm down the nervous system Also, other things that can be helpful for that too are when you're doing this is any of the soothing tones that I mentioned before Particularly for old traumas that we're carrying. So any kind of relaxing music that you could use or something like that could be really good also so This is I guess an invitation for you if you've noticed that you're Certainly if you have an aversion to physical touch It's something to go very very gently with and very slowly with but it can be really one of those things that helps you kind of Unblock a lot of the things that are in the body Again, it's not it doesn't have to make sense to us, you know intellectually or logically or rationally. This is pre-logic and rationality. So Maybe if you're in therapy talk to your therapist about that as an option and also Even if you're doing work on yourself by yourself try to incorporate that You know try to get into a place where you're really relaxed where you feel safe and Start to incorporate some touch into your practice So it's a little tip for today guys. Hope it's helpful and I will see you again soon. Bye for now