My brain categorizes me and you as the same person. Joel Salinas More Quotes by Joel Salinas More Quotes From Joel Salinas I felt this subtle sensation in my chest and this rising kind of feeling in the shoulders. I recommended a CT scan just to be sure and it later showed she had a blood clot in her lungs, i wouldn’t have been able to pick up on that if it wasn’t for the mirror-touch. Joel Salinas health We all struggle with communicating, connecting, and especially setting the right boundaries with the people we love and care for, not to mention the people that we work with day to day, mirror-touch opens up a fresh, interesting, and really important path to figure this out because it begins to uncover some of the mystery behind how we relate with one another. Joel Salinas health What I see someone else feel physically and emotionally, my brain makes me literally feel [that] too, so if you’re slapped on your right wrist, I feel like I’m slapped on my left wrist. Joel Salinas health Because of mirror-touch, my brain categorizes you and me as the same person and tries to recreate your experience based on the situation and my own past experiences. Joel Salinas health It’s almost like all of the physical sensations that I’ve been mirroring just kind of go away, like having been in a room where there’s an air conditioner running in the background and then it just stops. And there’s this eerie silence. Joel Salinas health I consider myself to be one of the lucky people with mirror-touch, in that I was able to find a way to apply the touch in my profession and that’s been part of my journey. Joel Salinas health
