To the listeners of the Kuban Institute of Osteopathy and Holistic Medicine. Just as the theater begins with a hanger, so the future osteopath begins with a touch, i.e. with a gesture. Treatment in osteopathy is carried out with special medical techniques, the implementation tool of which is the hands of the attending physician. Osteopathic Gesture is where both the acquaintance with the patient and his further treatment begin. Osteopathic Gesture or the touch of an osteopathic doctor on the patient’s body - is a unique means of communication between two people. His Majesty - Osteopathic Gesture! I would like to express an ode of praise to him! He is the younger brother of loving touch and the closest relative of the tenderest touch of a mother to her child. We experience the world with our hands, touching objects to understand its diversity, and touching shrines to remove negativity from ourselves. Even in Darwin's theory, a large place is devoted to the evolution of the hand. Thanks to its development, man was able to survive and subjugate nature. By shaking an open hand, we already come into contact with our patient. This means that diagnosis begins from the very first seconds of interaction with the patient. In this case, the doctor’s emotional state should be neutral. It’s as if you are inviting the patient’s body to leave all those psycho-emotional accumulations that put pressure on the brain, and embark on a fascinating journey along the waves of the subconscious to the conflict with which he came to you. The main thing is to remember that you are working with the most intimate that is in a person - with skin. And therefore, the Osteopathic Gesture should be distinguished by maximum correctness. If you want the patient’s body to open up before you, your Gesture should not convey either your problems or your hidden desire, because this is a message of emotions from which the patient’s body will have to defend itself. In relation to the patient, you can only allow yourself the emotion of unconditional love, yes, the same love with which a mother loves her child. But God forbid you add even the slightest particle of intimacy to this love - then you are not a doctor, but a user. In some cases, this may give a positive reaction for a short time, but no one knows where it will ultimately lead you and your patient. Perhaps not even to a cure, but to aggravation of the disease with which he came to you. Another important criterion of an Osteopathic Gesture is its confidence. The gesture should be soft but confident. Your Gesture will be made confident by the doctor’s faith in his knowledge, and not by snobbery or superiority, and especially by disbelief in the method of manual treatment itself. I have met with specialists who, despite their basic excellent sensitivity, could not accept the osteopathic concept, and as a result, left osteopathy. On the contrary, those who initially did not have basic excellent sensitivity, working day after day and gaining information about various touches, improved themselves and gained the love of patients. I wish you to improve yourself and your Osteopathic Gesture!