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Touch is a language that is older, and forever beyond words, and the responses to that touch can open a dialogue that can interpenetrate these pressures to all containers around it. We are made up of trillions of water balloons, which all jiggle in an entrained harmony. Among the fundamental benefits of bodywork and movement of all kinds is the reinforcing and freeing of this turbulence. This flow—these rhythmic vibrations and this unity of water's language—is one of the principal elements that connects us. THE LANGUAGE OF SKIN The skin is the surface of the brain; to touch the surface is to stir the depths. I cannot touch an organism's skin anywhere without arousing that organism's entirety. That is to say, the skin on one hand is a primary boundary of our physical selves, and on the other hand a primary threshold of interactions that connect our inner world with the world around us in many ways. The stimulation of this threshold is as necessary to us as water, food, or oxygen. Without adequate stimulation of our skin, we will languish. Infants sufficiently deprived of touch perish, regardless of being fed and sheltered. Slightly more, but still inadequate touch results in "deprivation dwarfism," with severe these personal worlds in ways that words can never achieve. earn CE hours at your convenience: abmp's online education center, www.abmp.com 61