The Touch of Embrace

The Infant Cuddle

Our greeting someone with an embrace … and perhaps kissing on the cheeks … originates from a place … that I can only refer to as the power of life. Its like the intense radiation … science records from young stars. Its in the infant as a power that combines mind … heart and soul … in the body of the infant … and sends out a powerful impact on a parent when they lift an infant to carry in their arms. It creates a charge on the molecular nature of human tissues … that carries long as an effect in the life of the man.

 

Its an area that may concern thinkers … as a spot in their reviews of themselves … that will not lend itself to analysis … or guide by the mind. Accordingly it gives the impression that its beyond mind … something that I've got into calling the … the overmind … or in the conventional as … religious faith. Its the communion that links the mind with the passions … and it can be a friend or an enemy … to the man … depending on his responses to it.

 

Its intimated to me that women are specialist at handling this aspect of the human personality … and it has in many ways been brought to man … by the messages of the mother Goddesses … in terms of understanding and dealing with it. My own experiences with it … has left an indelible mark of respect for the passions … and long before I was in any way close to an understanding of it … my experiences of it was a little like … watching straw being turned into chaff … when it brought its fury to bear on me.

 

My first discernment of it … was when my child was born … and how I experienced a certain shut down of the mind for almost two years. However when I commenced my studies … I used to experience a burning sensation … on my left side from the collar bone … down over the heart area. The skin in that area was inflamed … and I sometimes felt like it was on fire. I couldn't account for it … other than tot think how I held my daughter close to me when she was an infant.

 

I don't think I cuddled my daughter too much … being careful not to over stimulate the child in her young years. But despite the moderation … the sensation on the tissues was quite considerable. It wasn't until a year or two ago … that it lent itself to some review by the mind … and for me to discern the causes. And in the contact that I made with it … it became clear to me that it was … the origin of the touch sensation … dreams … desire … wishing … visioning … and the very foundation of the human ego.

 

It works with the tissues … bone … blood and fluids … to get to the mind … and is capable of its own thoughts on issues. It creates a companion to the mind … and goes hand in hand … with common issues … in which the mind … brings a greater organization of thought and decorum. Its own volition with respect to objectives … is based on drives … and it can take over the mind … and get me to do something I wouldn't have normally done.

 

It was a great help in my years of withdrawal … when it'll virtually pick me up … with some celt images … that played on my mind … and move me into opening up my locked passions … for greater exposure to issues … rather than simply look for empathy. And every time it came upon me … it felt like a storm … with winds that lashed at my mind and passions … probing … testing for weaknesses … and drawing me into a response with my learning disposition on issues.

 

In my meetings with it … I had always set a manner of relations … that I emphasized as being important for my responses. It has a familiarity with the requisites of the mind to respond to issues … and it could be brought into a better understanding … of how the mind is capable of being an equal partner to it … with the right organization of perception. And so we have been going through these calisthenics of mind … simply to feel each other out … and to come to relate better.

 

I was surprised to find that it also had an organization about itself … and was in that way … in an intense awareness of itself. But its sourced from the basic dictates of survival … the ways of might … with some familiarity of civil natures. We came to agree later … that our society has grown into an advancement of thought … and ideals … that we defend with our lives on occasion … and these helped us to make compromises on both sides of the border.

 

Perhaps what makes the power of the embrace hardest to deal with is the fact that … its a mix of many qualities. Its founded on love … then the divine … some incredible savvy that can top understanding … lends itself to discipline … yet dumps on discipline when the objectives for it are no longer relevant. Is an instrument of the practical natures … but will not allow too much a posturing on issues … with empty promises.

 

Owing to its origin … it does convey an impression of know-it-all … but when  I persisted that my role is simply to deal with the reason … logical natures … and a studied perspective on issues … it relented … and seems to allow me my reliance on reason … as the basis of my actions. It tried testing and exhausting my will … regarding the importance of knowledge … and protested that the mind was an instrument of the productive instruments … not the possession of the human personality.

 

I'm pleased to say we have come a long way from our early disagreements. It has trimmed my bloated views … simplified them … and brought it to appreciate the plain and ordinary in new ways … that has got me marveling at the values of such an attitude. To encapsulate our relations … I think I might say that … we have come to agree that there are no absolute standards. Most things take on an importance in relevance to needs … but we also create an emphasis for consistency of behavior … and a socially acceptable attitude.

 

On occasion … it exhibits traces of being trapped in a body .. that is exposed to all manner of stimulation … and seeks to minimize it. It insists that any stimulation consistent with my physical person … and personality … is something I must receive and respond to. It feels a little raw sometimes … like being exposed to the fires of creation … that first made the constituents of my being … from the beginning. And there are days when I look at the stars and find myself smiling. But when the kettle is on the boil … I bring my attention to the task of making a cup of coffee.