“Love is large, and so forms the heart that embraces it fully.” - Leann Taylor
We tend to think of touch as the sensory ability by which humans explore surfaces and materials. Yet science suggests that touch makes far more important contributions to human life. It not only brings the skin, our largest organ, into contact with the physical world, but it also directly connects our body to the social world.
Subsequent experiments have shown that we are primed to perceive pleasure when either receiving or giving this kind of touch, and we experience it as socially supportive, even when we have no other cue or information about what the other party may have been intending to communicate.
It has also been proved in humans that social touch is a very good medicine for stress and pain of many kinds, as it is capable of stimulating the body’s natural painkillers. Simple, everyday behaviours, such as hand-holding with partners, family members or friends, are capable of regulating both mental and physical stress and pain.
There’s no doubt that positive touch has a unique evolutionary role in linking us to other members of our species and regulating our health in the process.
All of this to say, with consent of course. Hug your partner or a friend today to show them how much you mean to them. 🤍 //
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