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at's what we love about him. He never backs away from the show. So he goes into the show and then you've got the president doing a show and Acosta doing a show and it's news for the day. I kind of like it. Now you also need real reporters and stuff and a lot of things that Acosta says are so ridiculous they make your head explode. But in the context of the show he's a good character. You know what…

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not even register as anything exciting because there's no intention involved. But the bush has no intention. Absent intention, touch loses all of its power. This is the thing that will change your life.

I learned this because I couldn't understand why some people can touch you and it feels great. Well you know let's say in the context of dating or whatever. And other people can touch you and it doesn't feel great. It doesn't feel like much of anything. And it doesn't seem to be related to how much you like the person or they like you or what they look like or your chemistry. There's something that some people have that's actually a skill that if they just lay their hand on your shoulder some people can make you feel good and some people can't. And I figured out what it is and it's intention.

And you can even test it on your animals. Here's specifically what I mean. When you're touching somebody whether human or pet you should be thinking to yourself in your mind the internal thought should be how does this feel to the other person? In other words you're putting yourself in their head and you're focusing completely on the task. If you do those two things, you focus completely on the task and the other person knows it and you put yourself in their head and touch them in a way that you would imagine if this were you you would like it even though you might be a little different. You have to learn what they like and adjust as you go. But that little bit of intention will turn an ordinary touch into almost an electric experience.

Now you won't believe it until you try it but try this experience of touching somebody. If you ever had somebody w

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ho is let's say you convince your boyfriend, girlfriend, spouse to scratch your back and they're just going to scratch your back and let's say you like that. Well just for example let's say you like it. If that person is also reading their phone and scratching your back while reading the phone their intention is gone. It's just a mechanical thing and it's just like the branch that brushes you in t…

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