04/11/2025
"Every time that I touch something, I am as aware of the part of me that is touching as I am of the thing I touched. Tactile experience tells me as much about myself as it tells me about anything that I contact. I am constantly using the world to explore my reactions just as much as I am using my reactions to assess the world. My sense of my own surface is very vague until I touch; at the moment of contact, two simultaneous streams of information begin to flow: information about an object announced by my senses, and information about my body announced by the interaction with the object. Thus I learn that I am more cohesive than water, softer than iron, harder than cotton balls, warmer than ice, smoother than tree bark, coarser than fine silk, more moist than flour, and so on." -Deane Juhan, Job's Body's A Handbook for Bodywork
