Touching With Kindness

Some parents and cooperative school teachers and classroom and bus aides and drivers are discussing government regulations restraining transportation providers from providing therapeutic touch, because of an over-compensation for emotional dysfunction behaviors leading to appallingly irreverent touch. Toxic touch critical events predict long-term non-lifegiving, non-wellbeing consequences in young vulnerable, transparently frustrated learners Typically, healthily born with WinWin internal/external co-relational cognitive assumptions, confluent expectations, positive neural receptivity is therapeutic while negative interceptions are toxic, pathological. We discuss our unhappiness about current administrative restraints on giving healthy therapeutic touch, but no such caring restrictions apply to receiving healthy appropriate therapeutic touch from our wounded, Win/Lose fragile, fragmented, cognitive-affective dissonant disarranged kids. We seem to be heading in a direction that would more positively hypothesize, Despite past risks of exposure to toxic touch, and apathetic untouch, we do not want to restrain therapeutic touch with our arms and hands, our feet walking and dancing in cooperative solidarity, stepping out rhythmically, together with our voices of kindness, mouths speaking and singing with ringing patterns of healthy happiness, Integrity becomes fully-embodied to support resilient WinWin therapeutic touch relationships. One of my daughter's school transportation providers learned therapeutic massage from a yogi, Who began their first hands-on learning class by reassuring those about to receive a student's touch, and those about to give their first massage, that there is only one mistaken choice to avoid-- extremism. Massage, like any form of verbal or non-verbal touch, turns from therapeutic default through toxic abandonment of communication, untouched apathetic restraint, and also when too aggressive, much more so when actively violent, Toxins, nonverbally and/or verbally non-communicating counter-therapies are Win/Lose neural neglect, lack of therapeutic mindfulness to not touch by untherapeutic mindlessness, Healthy touch speaks compassion, whether with our WinWin intending hands or solidarity voices or any other of Earth's neural receiving and giving eco-therapeutic receptors. So, I remind my daughter of what the yogi massage therapist said, We only want to touch with kindness, With our massaging hands and with our co-passioning voices, with our preferably dancing bodies and our more therapeutically singing mouths and signing hands and signaling feet. Her transport team listens, laughs, maybe a touch more relaxed about possibilities for therapeutic WinWin touching wounded Win/Lose dis-encultured students on their often too-neglected journeys in well-being life-skills for enhancing healthy wealth of resilience. While care-giving and -receiving adults continue to cooperatively talk without touching among our comparatively privileged/unprivileged selves.