Episode 905 Scott Adams - Swaddle in Place. Come Learn a Useful Trick With Me.

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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 d…

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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 the forest. Even though it should feel exactly the same as soon as the intention is gone and the focus is gone it just becomes something scratching you.

So once you find somebody who can actually touch, so it might be a while, try that. Try complete focus. Put yourself in their mode and then do that. You'll also learn the massage therapists, the best ones do that. That's the difference between a great massage therapist and a good one. They might have the same moves but one of them is going to be electric and one of them is just going to feel like something on your back.

All right you see in the comments that there are some people who are agreeing with it. Nobody is disagreeing with it so most of you just are probably hearing it for the first time like you've never really thought of it in those terms. Try it. If there's somebody in your house or a pet or something try it.

All right nursing doesn't... okay somebody says I think you're confirming in the comments that when you learn to be a nurse that that might be part of their training for the empathy etc. That

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makes sense. All right and that's all I needed to tell you that. Stop stealing my moves. All right that's all for now and I will talk to you in the morning. You know when.

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Wisdom from this episode

"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 the forest. Even though it should feel exactly the same as soon as the intention is gone and the focus is gone it just becomes something scratching you."

The exact same physical touch feels completely different once the other person's intention and focus disappear—it becomes impersonal and mechanical, like a random branch brushing against you in the woods.

"The best massage therapists do that. That's the difference between a great massage therapist and a good one. They might have the same moves but one of them is going to be electric and one of them is just going to feel like something on your back."

What separates great massage therapists from good ones isn't their technique but their complete focused intention, which creates an electric experience instead of a merely mechanical one.