1062 Mindfulness with Touch

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Be present with your sense of touch.

This is part 4 of a 7-Part Mindfulness with Your Five Senses Series, Episodes 1059-1065.

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0:00.0	This is episode one thousand sixty two. Welcome to the daily meditation
0:05.4	podcast. I hope you are doing well today. I'm Mary Meckley and I'm
0:10.9	excited to share with you a meditation technique as we explore our
0:17.6	theme for the week.
0:19.0	Our theme is all about exploring your five senses for mindfulness.
0:26.0	So mindfulness through your five senses.
0:29.2	In each episode we've explored a different sense and in today's episode you'll explore how to be
0:37.1	mindful with your sense of touch and you'll have the option to do a moudra. A moudra is a way you position your hands.
0:48.0	And there are a lot of different nerve endings on our fingertips and thumb tips. And when we activate these by applying
0:58.9	pressure on them or touching them together with your other hand, then this stimulates a
1:05.8	corresponding region of your brain. So I'm going to explain to you a little bit
1:11.1	how that works. The process is explained beautifully by a
1:19.4	scientist Dr David Linden and he wrote a book called Touch the Science of Hand, Heart and Mind and
1:29.5	and he argues that the genes, cells, and neural circuits involved in the sense of touch
1:36.6	have been crucial to creating our unique human experience. So in yesterday's episode you may remember we explored
1:46.8	your sense of smell and how smell triggers the part of your brain that helps you to remember stores memory.
1:59.2	Certain sense can take you back years and years to a particular moment in time.
2:07.0	So maybe if you're smelling lemons, sliced lemons, you're transported back to the time when you used to sell
2:15.9	lemonade at your own lemonade stand, for example. Well, Dr Linden mentions that in the sense of touch, there are two components.
2:31.0	The first component is where you're actually feeling touched, where you feel the pressure,
2:37.8	you feel maybe this beautiful sensation, or you might feel pain, or you might be wearing a coarse sweater and it's scratchy or you might be
2:47.9	in a comfortable bed and you feel nice and cozy. We feel this sensation in our body. Well he talks about a second pathway
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