For Teachers and Those Who Touch

The next time you use your hands to touch something{or someone}, instead of just focusing on the affect you are having on the object or person, also notice the changes that occur within you. We tend to evaluate our efforts in terms of how successfully we are able to manipulate the external world. Our focus is outward and so we have little awareness of how that interaction is changing us.

Remember that anything you touch is touching you back. Every action you take comes back to you in the form of energy and information that can either help you or hurt you depending upon what you are paying attention to. If before beginning an activity you start by Noticing the ease in yourself, you can use the increase or lessening of that ease to determine the overall quality of that activity. That way you can see both the external and internal changes in the same frame and you'll have a better chance of finding out what your doing is actually doing to you.