{"id":286,"date":"2011-03-31T22:51:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T05:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abysmalwitch.wordpress.com\/?p=286"},"modified":"2011-03-31T22:51:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T05:51:02","slug":"the-power-of-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/31\/the-power-of-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"

a.k.a. the Power of Cuddling.<\/p>\n

On real joy of being stuck lying down for months is the amount of cat cuddle time I’ve gotten in. \u00a0Particularly with my oldest cat, she’s 14, sweet and so neurotic she’s on Prozac.<\/p>\n

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The hours we have spent with her curled up on me during the bad months. \u00a0I’m sure she slept on my for 3, 4, possibly more hours on individual days during the worst of the pain.<\/p>\n

She prefers to be up high on my chest so that the back of her head, her neck or her back is up close near my chin. \u00a0Many times right up against. \u00a0Then there was the odd day where she would be across my chest with her legs outstretched on either side of my head. \u00a0Okay, sure, there was fear that if there was some loud, startling noise, that she’d slice my face right open as she fled from it, it was still really sweet and cute and cuddly.<\/p>\n

And ultimately soothing for me. \u00a0Keeping to a happy state of mind has had its rough moments over the past few months. \u00a0I also had to keep from getting too bored or frustrated or annoyed with my incapacitated and horizontal state. \u00a0I believe my sweetie really helped with that<\/p>\n

Touch is powerful. \u00a0It is extremely personal. \u00a0It reaches straight through to our inner selves. \u00a0And it’s not just touch with other people. \u00a0It’s connecting with our pets and our environment, from our clothes, to bedding, to anything that our skin comes in contact with.<\/p>\n

If I had more energy left I’d go on more, but instead I’ll leave the topic there for the time being and only add:<\/p>\n

Go get your cuddle on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

a.k.a. the Power of Cuddling. On real joy of being stuck lying down for months is the amount of cat cuddle time I’ve gotten in. \u00a0Particularly with my oldest cat, she’s 14, sweet and so neurotic she’s on Prozac. The hours we have spent with her curled up on me during the bad months. \u00a0I’m … Continue reading The Power of Touch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,4,11],"tags":[48,65,277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abysmalwitch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}