Touch – More than a Simple Feeling
Touch has long been regarded as the simplest way people share feelings and compassion but the strange thing doctors have been wondering about for a long time is why the specific act seemingly brings about healing. Pain seems to react to touch in a way not yet quite apparent to our researchers and doctors, then they find a special set of nerves that dots our fingers directly linked to the feeling processing center of the brain. The special sense receptors can be compared to having healing touch for one knows that babies calm at the touch of their parents, sick people calm down with a compassionate stroke of the hands and massage calms even the most stressed soul.
This might explain why alternative medicine, namely reflexology and massage tends to have beneficial effects though they are not directly treating internal organs within the human body. Touch as it turns out has a more effective purpose that may have evolved through our millions of years of evolution. The mechanisms truly complex for it to have eluded study all these years. Seems we are really benefiting from the comforting touch we get when we need it most amd scientists have proof to back it up!
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