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While staying at one of the Singapore spa resorts and got to participate, unexpectedly in an impromptu teaching about the importance of touch. I had, mistakenly walked into an staff training in the spa area of the hotel. The instructor invited me to take a seat, so I did. The staff was getting a re-charging lesson so they can always stay fresh with all the hotel clients.

I learned that touch is an ancient form of communication and communion. It’s the first means in which communication with other beings as soon as we’re born and brought into this world. Soon, as the years pass by, the human touch is gradually forgotten. In its place are endless technological and non-human touches. At the most, human touches becomes verbal talking at a distance. Touch is tactile feeding which is through the skin. Being touched means receiving or as the instructor like to put it: eating through the skin. To touch others means to give or to  feed through the skin. However, at a certain point in this departure a return to the primordial touch is completely mandated by the very powerful and demanded forces of the sex energy. This calls for the preservation and propagation of the human race.

The loss and damage during this departure can be devastating. The human with all it’s instinctive, sex, moving, emotional and all the thinking parts are left in a decaying state of distress, pain and even hunger. So, the holistic touch is aimed to bring back touch with a faster rate and is more timely for the negative consequences of the departure of our endless, brake-less trains. Touch aids with redefining and remembering our own bodies boundaries and body image. Both in the physical and the spiritual realms. Touch aids in understanding of ourselves more succinctly as a four dimensional being.

So, for the spa staff, they were learning that as a result of a non-touching society their touch can elevate states of distress and promote a healing of diseases, personal growth and give a boost to our development of our potentials. By sensing, feeling and observing through touch exchanges, they will be able to understand the recipients.

The science of touch, the bodys knowledge and understanding can challenge those old worn-out beliefs and misconceptions that have been incorporated in the mechanical lives that are non-supportive for a healthy lifestyle. The communication of touch is one of the four physical dimensions that’s intangible and a supreme way to express an array of affection, disapproval or nurishment. There is a common physical touch which is normal, but that intangibility of that touch has such a great impact on the harmonious development of the human being and the human species.

Okay, so I’m stay at one of the Luxury Singapore Business Hotels which my company booked for a month. A month isn’t enough time to really get to know Singapore and the locals at all, but it is enough time to make some interesting acquaintances and possibly a love interest. I’ve only been here for two weeks when the bartender of my favorite bar mentioned that I should participate in the Theemidhi Festival. He told me then I need to participate in the Deepavali, the Festival of Lights. He told me, I’d get a better taste of Singapore and the people here.

I don’t know, I mean, I am only here for a month, do I really want to know Singapore better? But, then all he has to mention was how many beautiful single women participate in both festivals. Well, this peeked my interest. So, I asked him what the Theemidhi Festivals all about. He told me that it a Hindu Festival were they walk barefoot across white-hot embers at the Sri Mariamman Temple. It’s in honor of the Hindu goddess Draupadi. My bartender is Hindi, so he elaborated about who the goddess Draupadi is.

She’s a heroine of the epic poem Mahabharata. She was a princess who was the subject of her husband’s wager in a risky game of dice. Her husband played with his cousin, Duryodhana and her husband lost. She was then the property of Duryodhana. That wasn’t her only hardship; she was the epitome of harsh treatment of all women by men. So, the festival is in honor of Draupadi’s courage that devotees subject themselves to a test of faith by walking barefoot across of 4 meter pit or red hot coals. Deifying the intense heat, these devotees, these firewalkers focus and deep concentration to complete the challenge come out miraculously unscathed. But, not only unscathed, the devotees regard it as a test of purity. So, basically, it’s said that if a devotee is not pure, he or she will fail the test and be burnt.

I only have to watch, I don’t have to participate, which I wouldn’t anyway. My bartender said he’d be glad to go along with me, he figures if he’s seen with an American businessman, he’d have a better chance of getting a date with either one of the devotees or one of the visitors. That sounded good to me. Getting to know Singapore better.