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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#487e9c" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#487E9C'>Guess it’s hard
for some folks not to be Tree-huggers [grin]… I know, I know…
couldn’t help myself!<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#487E9C'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#487e9c" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#487E9C'>Thanks for sharing
another point of view, Tree.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>There
are so many different ways to express ourselves and sometimes we get into our
own well-worn, little grooves without fully attending to the preferences of
others…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#487e9c" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#487E9C'>Warm regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#487e9c" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#487E9C'>Karen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color="#446d7b" face=Arial><span
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Sella</span></font><font color="#487e9c"><span style='color:#487E9C;mso-no-proof:
yes'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color="#446d7b" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#446D7B;mso-no-proof:yes'>Managing
Partner</span></font><font color="#487e9c"><span style='color:#487E9C;
mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color="#446d7b" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#446D7B;mso-no-proof:yes'><a
href="http://www.luminacoaching.com">www.luminacoaching.com</a></span></font><font
color="#487e9c"><span style='color:#487E9C;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color="#446d7b" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#446D7B;mso-no-proof:yes'>Phone:
206.780.2998</span></font><font color="#487e9c"><span style='color:#487E9C;
mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#446D7B;mso-no-proof:yes'>Skype:
luminasella</span></font><font color="#487e9c"><span style='color:#487E9C;
mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#487e9c" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#487E9C;mso-no-proof:yes'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color="#446f7b" face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:#446F7B;mso-no-proof:
yes'>lumina<em><i><font face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>
</span></font></i></em>fr. L., <em><i><font face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>light, air, opening</span></font></i></em></span></font><font
color="#487e9c"><span style='color:#487E9C;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#487e9c" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#487E9C;mso-no-proof:yes'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Tree Fitzpatrick<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, March 03, 2006 5:19
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: A Quiet Time</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>A small contribution about touching, just my
individual perspective. . . I am not offering suggestions for anyone else.<br>
<br>
I am a high empath, deeply intuitive and sometimes I think I am a gifted
psychic, although I don't foresee the future. But I am highly, highly
sensitive. I feel all kinds of energy. Before I fully realized on I
feel many different kinds of energy that not everyone feels (certainly I am by
no means special).<br>
<br>
I have always resisted a lot of physical contact with other people. I
have been told, countless times, that my resistance to being touched was
somehow a 'wrong' choice or, at least, a less than 'optimal' one. I can't
tell you how many times wonderful, loving leaders of one variant or another has
tried to persuade me that I needed to push myself into accepting hugs, that I
didn't know what I was missing, that I needed what I was missing.<br>
<br>
And I have yearned to be able to get over this resistance-to-touch thing.
I hate it when people, be they people I love and trust or people I have just
met at a gathering, take notice of my resistance to touch. I hate it even
more when people impose touch on me without asking.<br>
<br>
I have sat with this situation for a long, long time. Over the years, I
have grown more confident of my ability to trust myself. Gradually I
realized that I could be me. I can trust my Self to know when I need to
be touched and I could block out all the well-meaning and, I am certain,
wonderful people who wanted to 'fix' my resistance to a lot of touching.
Hey, I realized with happiness, maybe I am okay just the way I am.<br>
<br>
Giving myself this permission led me to what has been, for me, an exciting
new/next realization: I found out that I don't like to be touched a lot
because I am already feeling so much energy. At special events,
especially events where I am holding space, I am picking up many, many streams
of energy with the finely attuned instrument that is me. It is real work
to stay tuned. And it is perfectly reasonable to do what I need to do to
feel okay. Hugging people shifts my energy. Hugging three people in
a row shifts my energy three times in a row. It is sort of like moving a
satellite dish on your roof and changing your television's ability to receive
programming.<br>
<br>
As I said as i began, this is just about me and touching other people. I
do not propose that what is true for me is true in the same way for one
another. <br>
<br>
I am just voicing, with the above explanation to give my message some context,
that there are all kinds of things going on when two or more people are
gathered and none of us can really ever know what all the other people need to
be doing to feel just right. I always feel highly anxious when people
standing up in front of groups of people, leading, start asking people to
touch, touch, touch. I have a deep, visceral resistance, sometimes, even,
revulsion. I feel faintly panicky. I lose my sense of centeredness.<br>
<br>
Well, I used to. Now I remember that I get to be me all the time, no
matter what.<br>
-- <br>
Warmly,<br>
Tree Fitzpatrick<br>
Hearthkeeper<br>
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