Can AI replace human touch and healing?

AI is the latest topic and I wanted to sit with this question. Can AI replace human touch and healing? In fact, it's been one that has been at the forefront of many people's minds for quite some time now. The idea that we could have a robot that could do everything that a human could do—and more—is exciting. But when you really think about it, there's so much more to life than just being able to perform tasks and provide services.

Transcript

Hi beautiful souls,

This is Sree Manju Katarkadda.

Welcome to Life is Magical podcast.

I'm so excited to be presenting you with a favorite topic right now that's happening around the globe.

Guess what?

AI,

Artificial intelligence.

I remember studying the subject in 2000 in my graduation and thinking like,

Hmm can't see that happening.

Like you know and here you go 22 years or 23 years.

Now it's already been integrated so deeply in us like in many ways that we don't even understand.

ChatGPT that we hear is only one aspect of it.

There are multiple ways that it has already integrated and taken over many of the people's jobs especially into the creative world right now where people are feeling their work is being threatened or the writers are feeling their work is being threatened because AI can give you so much and there's so amazing tools there.

I mean I'm not taking either of the sides of it here or to have a controversial statement or anything.

For me,

The thought about AI and can it replace a human touch and the healing is what sat with me like you know because I'm a healer.

I love to connect to people and I choose to do Reiki by touch method rather than off the hands like you know and that is who I am personally.

I'm a hugger.

So can ever this AI take away that part?

And recently my daughter was doing a dig deep in her school about the AI and the mental health like you know how it is already been integrated into the medicine field and how the hospitals are taking it over and how some of the therapies are being replaced by AI because a lot of people do feel now AI is not going to judge them.

You can be honest.

You can speak about things.

So you are not going to be like you know shamed or named or feel like ah why did I say that like you know where we have the human emotions.

But for me more it was about the human touch itself like you know yeah many people do say like our phones are extension of our hands but then your hand is your hand.

Phone is phone like you know.

There are many ways that we disconnect from our phones or we long to disconnect from our phones as well right?

So here I just wanted to share some of the things that I feel resonated with like you know there is absolutely that magic that I feel with the human touch and someone's hand in your hand right?

The companionship,

The kindness,

The warmth that gets in.

It could be your partner,

It could be your child,

It could be your best friend or even with your pets as well right?

Because you have this beautiful intuition and that kindness that the robots never can have it like never can feel it at least as far as I can see right now.

Maybe not I don't know in the future like you know but right now those feelings can never be replaced.

Saying that never can never how many of us did even believe in in the past our ancestors that someone can go into the moon or the Mars or anything and now you see going into the space is coming up like very much ease now.

So with the increasing number of corporate job losses and changing the dynamics of the economy the question arises like deeply is like you know will it ever replace a massage therapist,

Acupuncturist or a Reiki practitioner like you know as I schedule up like I'm feeling drawn to teaching more of these tools back again like I was taking a few months break and now like importance of the self-care I think self-healing is more and more needed right now.

I started practicing Reiki in 2010 and since then I never stopped it but at the time like not many people I would be able to have a conversation about Reiki but here 2023 we are able to have this conversations about yoga about Reiki,

Hands on healing or self-care,

Self-healing like you know it has become so beautiful that it's no more like a veil in between at least in major of the conversations like you know so with that like you know there is certain energy intuition that comes from a human touch that itself is a life force energy that we are being bringing it into our bodies into our chakras into our vortex how is that ever going to be replaced by a technology right how can it ever be and will it be the same like you go under a scan system or an x-ray it does what it needs to do prints you the files or your breast mammogram as well like you know but the touch or someone just allowing to move your energy field to release the stuckness or cleanse your energy field will never ever be gone and it's more needed now with so much chaos so much of quickness turn around the work pressure everything happening I think the more of a sense to go in words is more than ever needed right now isn't it which helps us to gain as a balance relaxation and total vitality and total presence yeah and it's still like very much early days in many ways like you know I strongly believe it can never replace a human kindness maybe I need to watch this back in 10 years time and see where we are with it but remember like you know having some tools that are dear to you that you are drawn to you and you want to work deep in your skills is the most important thing either it could be Reiki either it could be acupressure point or tapping techniques it could be anything that you have in your basket are always going to be your key essence of things like you know it's like the value of the gold metals comes in high or low like always it's going to have its own value right as an ornament or as a present or as a memory nothing can be taken away like as long as you know what it is and where it is coming from yeah and taking care of our bodies mind and the soul is much more needed to be in a line to process and to go at a speed that the world is calling in so that helps us to go inwards first and then out right even the little things like you know the children curling up or getting the hugs or the bedtime routines as well like you know or meeting your friends after a year like yeah it's just that you need that and that gives us such a beautiful pump of energies I mean even in the hospices there's a lot of emphasis given on the touch healing when I was in Ireland I learned this hand massage technique and where the hand massages were so important and especially in the nursing homes because people were deprived of the touch itself maybe the loved ones can't be there everyday but the touch of even a nurse or a kind hearted person itself does such a magic and we go inwards it's just like drops in into your heart center into your body and you feel merged with your physical body your spirit and your soul so there is no dysfunctional between am I thinking from my head or am I judging this it's more like I'm feeling it I'm here like you know and that is the most important thing we need to be really embracing that uniqueness of human touch and more and more coming up culturally I know many of us are not raised in the same way of getting the hugs like you know definitely my family is not for hugs it's awkward like you know but I love it and I wanted to change that so as I created that space with my family with my children like hugs are important like you know even if we don't talk if we are mad at each other still hug like there is no barrier there like you know in that moment of time like you know you just break down you just melt down and you just open up yourself because it touches straight into your heart center right and that's the most important thing.

I hope this conversation resonates with you like you know and think about like you know not only it's resonating but also think about like how are you impacting your life with the tools that needed for you right now what kind of tools have you got in your bucket like you know for self healing it could be like self care it could be like from journaling to hands on healing technique it could be or a massage it could be like you know always remember to upgrade yourself and have enough tools you never know which ones you will need when and how you can use it practicing and taking care for yourself is the most important thing.

Nobody can replace that only you got to do it and you can do it remember that and once you do it you are going to create a beautiful space for all around you.

So that's where I just wanted to bring this podcast with and just wanted to plug in that at the weekend I'm teaching Kundalini Reiki workshop it's a hands on healing and distance healing modality as well raising your Kundalini from shifting up your vortexes and letting the life force frequency flow with much ease it's beautiful easy technique and only takes two minutes of energies to be worked to make it work.

So if that's of interest it can also be a self study as well drop in a message like you know I love to hear back from you guys.

So with that check in and take care of yourself and just place the hands on your heart and feel your heart full and thank you thank you so much and totally being grateful with your presence your hearing and your reviews your comments everything excites me.

Lots of love and take care guys and take care of yourself yeah that's the most important thing all is well.

Namaste.