Time and again, people have reported the change in contact experiences during the corona pandemic. In addition to the comprehensible complaint that contact with people, close and broader circle of friends, is almost existentially missing, there is also another side. Quite a few were surprised to find new horizons of contact in everyday life, despite the rules of ‘distancing’.
A patient who was forced to stay in the hospital for several weeks reported how intensely touching took place through eye contact. She could let herself be touched by looking at each other, both by the coldness of a look and by accepting, loving looks.
In the past Corona year, many people gained new experiences with the environment through numerous excursions into nature: a ray of sunshine that touches me, the wind caressing my skin, the language of a stream. From a therapeutic setting, we know about the healing experience through contact between humans and animals. How much people have always been touched by the sounds of music!
We know that the human being absolutely needs the resonance through touch from the womb. Without this tension between resonance through touch, there is no incarnation.
Our anniversary academy does not primarily reflect the experiences of the crisis, but refers to the tension between “touch and resonance” in human encounters.
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