What Is Touch Deprivation?

In this video, Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman discusses touch deprivation with Semion Vinokur.

Skin hunger, or tactile hunger, is a phenomenon of our era. According to experts, we feel touch deprived when the amount of touch we desire is more than the amount of touch we actually receive. It is very similar to the feeling of regular hunger.

Touch provides both safety and comfort, and now in the U.S. pets are being adopted from shelters more than ever. In that sense, even touching a dog, a cat, or another animal will satisfy this hunger.

Obviously, when we cannot touch human beings in a human way, then at least we would do so with animals in an animal way. Sure, have a dog and play with it, but we are meant to actually experience something else.

This external touch, a tactile contact, does not replace the internal disposition and the contact of the hearts. When the hearts are in contact, then the distances are irrelevant because the body has no significance at all in this matter. Connection of the hearts is only possible between one person and another person, and it is neither physical nor tactile.

How do we connect with our hearts? In the yearning, when we feel that we yearn to connect with others and we also receive a response from them. We then feel that both hearts have been truly opened and a mutual space emerges between them. Love, understanding, and reciprocity are felt within this mutual space.

Naturally, everything comes from hunger. The kind of hunger that pulls one heart to another heart is not animalistic, but spiritual. It is expressed as a lack of life energy. We can feel such energy when we connect with others in such way. Even though we have food and money, there is still a feeling of lacklusterness. This means that we look for another heart. We unconsciously feel that we have no one to live for.

Life, after all, is built in such a way: We give birth, beget, educate, give—and we feel the same from others. Such reciprocal fulfillment is life itself. It is impossible to give to someone without receiving.

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[perlamargarita]

I have never felt this heart touch of which he speaks. People reject me. But the pets give unconditional love that humans never do.

[sunseeker]

You only need one person in life who 'gets' you. Not all 8billion. One reciprocal heart connection. With God in the center. That is enough. ♥

[subliminalmuse]

There can be heart to heart connection with animals too. I grew up with a dog and he was like a brother to me when I was a child

[thesoulmateconnection]

Those times are here. When we are nothing we become everything. My image is you. I love the Jew so that means I am the Jew. We hide ourselves inside one another 🙏 Seeing good is seeing God in the reflection of the other.

[josefhospital]

With all respect but this is spiritual bypassing. We have need for physical and spiritual connection. Neither one does replace the other