TOUCH
Are you getting enough touch?
Is your human touch pot bubbling over happily or are you hungrily scraping the dregs looking for more? Just how much touch do you need to fill your personal touch quota?
by Aaila Greene T
ouch: Everybody’s talking about it. Bruce Springsteen sang about it with “I just want something to hold
on to, and a little of that human touch”. In the novel Siddhartha, author Hermann Hesse said “every caress, every touch… has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it.” The American poet Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006) said “Touch me, remind me who I am”. Just how important is touch and how much do we need?
TOUCH: AN INTRINSIC HUMAN NEED The need for human touch is biological. Some of us may remember hearing about studies in Romanian orphanages in the 1980s and 90s showing that a lack of touch in infants prevented healthy growth and the development of normal social skills. In the USA, hospital studies found that premature babies grow more when fifteen minutes of touch therapy is added into the daily routine. Without touch, the orphans were literally unable to grow into healthy human beings. With touch, the premature babies thrived.
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In the early 1950s psychologist Harry Harlow conducted studies with infant monkeys and concluded that when given a choice between a wire monkey with food or a cloth monkey with no food, the infants preferred the cloth monkey to snuggle into, despite the fact that they were starving. The soft touch was what they needed – more than the food – and they were prepared to starve to get it. Repeatedly, psychologists have
proven that touch is not just a wishy- washy desire, but rather an intrinsic and biological human need. A stream of psychology research
confirms that the right type of touch can release oxytocins, commonly known as ‘the cuddle hormone’. Since oxytocins reduce stress and increase a feeling of well-being, it isn’t surprising that studies found that people who received more touch were shown to have higher levels of oxytocins, thus giving them a helping hand with their everyday stress. However, our thoughts about the touch also make a difference. The touch has to be perceived as non-threatening to provide us with the happy hormones and awesome vibes.
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