It is true that children, in order to become healthy adults, need to feel the affection transmitted by caresses, but adults also need them to maintain an emotional balance that is hardly attainable in a society as stressful and individualistic as ours. On the other hand, the simple contact of one hand can, at a certain moment, restore calm and even health to someone who suddenly and thanks to that simple gesture feels loved, and therefore, safe.
Smaller caress can relieve stress and restore emotional balance, but also causes stimulation of the senses. Our vital energy often remains stagnant in a tense body, however, any friction can relax and wake up. Being able to touch and feel the people around us makes us appreciate that we are not alone and that life is something worth living …
THE TOUCH: The most pleasant of the five senses. In principle, sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch are five senses that serve the human being to interact with the environment and interact with it, as well as being the essential basis of their ability to experience pleasure.
However, the special organization of the human nervous system makes it react, fundamentally, to the stimuli produced by it with irrational animals, for which smell is the primary sense. And it is that touch is an essential element in human relationships, a form of communication essential and inextricably linked to feelings, In fact, touch is the first sense that develops the human embryo who, already inside the womb, is capable of perceive tactile sensations.
The sense of touch is determined by the sensitivity of the skin, which allows us to recognize the objects that surround us. Thus, for example, the sensory nerves of touch allow us to distinguish between a caress, a bite, a kiss and a slap, or provides us every morning with information about the clothes we are putting on, about their weight, their texture, the graduation of pressure it produces …