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TOUCHING THE MIND Resources Bateson, Gregory. 2002. Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity. New Jersey: Hampton Press. Brown, Jason W. 2000. The Self-Embodying Mind. New York: Barrytown Press Ltd. Emoto, Masaru. 2005. The Hidden Messages in Water. Chicago, Illinois: Atria. Juhan, Deane. 2002. Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork. New York: Station Hill Press. First published in 1987. Lipton, Bruce. 2008. The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, and Miracles. Carlsbad, California: Hay House. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. 2002. The Phenomenology of Perception. Routledge Press. First published in 1978. abnormalities of development that closely mimic those caused by chronic malnutrition. Adults experimentally deprived of tactile sensations become psychologically deranged. There is indeed "something in the touch of flesh with flesh" without which we simply cannot thrive. THE LANGUAGE OF THE CONNECTIVE TISSUE MATRIX Just underneath the skin—in fact an integral part of it—begins the intimately interwoven web of our connective tissue. Once regarded as an inert, sort of nylon-like wrapping that divided our bones, muscles, organs, circulatory systems, and neural pathways into separate functional entities, this web is now appreciated as an extraordinarily sensitive and energetic matrix that connects all of our internal structures and processes, down to our innermost microscopic cellular interiors. Far from being inert, our connective Montagu, Ashley. 1986. Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin. New York: Harper Paperbacks. Oschman, James. 2003. Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance. Oxford, United Kingdom: Butterworth-Heinemann. Pert, Candace. 1999. Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine. New York: Simon & Schuster. Schwenk, Theodor. 1996. Sensitive Chaos: The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air. London: Rudolph Steiner Press. tissue matrix is a sensitive conductor of electromagnetic currents. It is a conductor of a special class called piezoelectric. Piezo is a Greek derivative, meaning in this usage "self- generating." Every movement, every pressure, every distortion through movement, and every vibration creates polarizations within this matrix. Between the polarities flow currents of electricity that surround and penetrate all 60 trillion living cells in our bodies, carrying not only energy but also information to their membranes and interiors that help to both fuel and orchestrate many of their inner activities, harmonizing them with one another. In these energetic and informational roles, our connective tissue matrix was the precursor to our nervous systems in both evolutionary and embryological development, 62 massage & bodywork january/february 2011