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Haptonomy: Touching: taboo in or a complementary aspect to professional care?
In our life and the world around us we take part in a multitude of contacts and interactions, whereby there is a permanent confrontation whether or not to consciously take personal decisions or formulate viewpoints. In current society with its focus on production, with its education specifically aimed at adjustment, it is not so obvious to listen what we feel and perceive deep inside and to take those decisions that are important for ourselves and suit us. It is only all too often that we are inclined to take decisions on the basis of what we think that our environment (parents) expect of us or deem desirable. It is not easy to listen to what is important for ourselves when we have learned from a very early age onward that it is important to meet the expectations and demands of our environment. Taking decisions based on that what is expected of us may be such a natural thing to do that many people actually think that this it is the proper thing to do and also organise their accordingly. in our personal functioning and well-being, as the proper thing to do and also organise their life accordingly. Decisions that are taken on what we think is the proper thing to do or because we think that it is expected of us may be an important cause of disorders in our personal functioning and well-being, as we do not base these decisions according to our own opinion (perception) and therefore ignore ourselves systematically.
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