New York Times
Best-Selling Author
Ellen Tanner Marsh
"Get in close touch with this book"
Best-Selling Author
Ellen Tanner Marsh
"Get in close touch with this book"
"Touch Life...is very captivating...(it) captures so much truth"
Michelle Rossie
Author of All About Me
Chapter Outline
1. A Touching Story - Two stories - one is about a young child the other a mature adult, and their different reactions to a rainy day
2. The Persecuted Sense - Our five senses are considered. Both scientific research and anecdotal evidence show how four of our senses are being overindulged while touch is being neglected.
3. A Tale of Two Houses - In order to establish that this phenomenon is a relatively new affliction, this chapter compares the lives of people living a hundred years ago to our modern lifestyle.
4. Use it or Lose it - A simple principle is now introduced and that is the maxim of “use it or lose it” and how this has resulted in a loss of energy due to our lack of touch.
5. Wheel Solutions for Real Problems - In line with established trends towards voluntary simplicity, this chapter explores the importance of returning to simple solutions to our complex modern day problems.
6. Tiny Touch Teachers - Attention is now turned to children who hold the key to our re-discovery of touch and its concomitant energy levels.
7. Touching Consequences - A fundamental stumbling block in our ability to touch life again is consequence. This is examined to put it in its perspective.
8. Finding out your tAGE - This chapter provides a fascinating self-assessment test for readers to determine their Touch Age (tAGE) as this is a vital point of departure to the journey of rediscovery.
9. Meeting People your own tAGE - Using the tAGE assessment of the previous chapter, the reader is now able to explore their values, joys, and frustrations as compared to people of similar and other tAGEs.
10. Getting in Touch - Equipped with this valuable self-assessment, the reader learns simple techniques to touch life once again in work, home and play environments.
11. The Great Touch Delusion - A caveat lector is mentioned as many an enthusiastic reader may in reading feel they are already rediscovering their touch, while in truth this is merely a delusion.
12. Touch Down - Finally the 3 key elements of the rediscovery process - Remembering, Relearning, and Revitalizing are drawn together. The reader is then left to finish writing the rest of the story of their life…..
1. A Touching Story - Two stories - one is about a young child the other a mature adult, and their different reactions to a rainy day
2. The Persecuted Sense - Our five senses are considered. Both scientific research and anecdotal evidence show how four of our senses are being overindulged while touch is being neglected.
3. A Tale of Two Houses - In order to establish that this phenomenon is a relatively new affliction, this chapter compares the lives of people living a hundred years ago to our modern lifestyle.
4. Use it or Lose it - A simple principle is now introduced and that is the maxim of “use it or lose it” and how this has resulted in a loss of energy due to our lack of touch.
5. Wheel Solutions for Real Problems - In line with established trends towards voluntary simplicity, this chapter explores the importance of returning to simple solutions to our complex modern day problems.
6. Tiny Touch Teachers - Attention is now turned to children who hold the key to our re-discovery of touch and its concomitant energy levels.
7. Touching Consequences - A fundamental stumbling block in our ability to touch life again is consequence. This is examined to put it in its perspective.
8. Finding out your tAGE - This chapter provides a fascinating self-assessment test for readers to determine their Touch Age (tAGE) as this is a vital point of departure to the journey of rediscovery.
9. Meeting People your own tAGE - Using the tAGE assessment of the previous chapter, the reader is now able to explore their values, joys, and frustrations as compared to people of similar and other tAGEs.
10. Getting in Touch - Equipped with this valuable self-assessment, the reader learns simple techniques to touch life once again in work, home and play environments.
11. The Great Touch Delusion - A caveat lector is mentioned as many an enthusiastic reader may in reading feel they are already rediscovering their touch, while in truth this is merely a delusion.
12. Touch Down - Finally the 3 key elements of the rediscovery process - Remembering, Relearning, and Revitalizing are drawn together. The reader is then left to finish writing the rest of the story of their life…..
Touch Life
So what's up with us often being tired, often being sick, often being depressed? Could it be, that for many of us, it is rooted in the fact that we have lost touch with what our forefathers all enjoyed? Could it be that we live such insulated, such cocooned lives we no longer live life at all? Many of us are fortunate to have life insurance, perhaps with Aviva (aviva.co.uk) or a similar company, but what is the point if we don't live our life to the full? Touch Life will not only open your eyes to how severe the condition has become, but will help you assess and rediscover your energy and vigour by re-awakening your experience of life. This is one book you must read, this is one journey you wont forget, as you rediscover the young person within.
So what's up with us often being tired, often being sick, often being depressed? Could it be, that for many of us, it is rooted in the fact that we have lost touch with what our forefathers all enjoyed? Could it be that we live such insulated, such cocooned lives we no longer live life at all? Many of us are fortunate to have life insurance, perhaps with Aviva (aviva.co.uk) or a similar company, but what is the point if we don't live our life to the full? Touch Life will not only open your eyes to how severe the condition has become, but will help you assess and rediscover your energy and vigour by re-awakening your experience of life. This is one book you must read, this is one journey you wont forget, as you rediscover the young person within.
Reviews
"Get in touch with this book", says New York Times best-selling author, Ellen Tanner Marsh says "Touch Life speaks to an essential inner need...in clear, concise prose....(It makes an) overwhelming case that we are depriving ourselves of a truly wonderful form of physical input and stimulation." By reading Touch Life and going on this journey to remember your youthful self you will "rediscover a part of your physical and emotional being". This is a book you wont put down until the journey is done!
"Touch Life....is very captivating. Why do we rush through life? Isn't it short enough!....(it) captures so much truth....It is important to be reminded to slow down, take a breath, and look around!....(This book is) very useful." Michelle Rossi, author of All About Me.
"Get in touch with this book", says New York Times best-selling author, Ellen Tanner Marsh says "Touch Life speaks to an essential inner need...in clear, concise prose....(It makes an) overwhelming case that we are depriving ourselves of a truly wonderful form of physical input and stimulation." By reading Touch Life and going on this journey to remember your youthful self you will "rediscover a part of your physical and emotional being". This is a book you wont put down until the journey is done!
"Touch Life....is very captivating. Why do we rush through life? Isn't it short enough!....(it) captures so much truth....It is important to be reminded to slow down, take a breath, and look around!....(This book is) very useful." Michelle Rossi, author of All About Me.