Healing Wonders of Touch Therapy

Touch therapy is the language of love. Aside from massage,  touch therapy is basically holding your loved one… it’s caressing his back while talking to him… it’s letting him lean on you while watching TV together… it’s holding your child’s hand to guide him while teaching him to do things.

According to one psychologist, “Touch therapy is a form of  hands-on psychotherapy for integrating the body, mind, spirit and emotions.” Through this touch, unresolved emotional experiences, unconscious attitudes, forgotten memories and buried feelings that had been kept in the body finally surfaced and get released. When an emotional release happens, the person breaks free from the unconscious, self-destructing patterns of his life.

Touching and massaging is associated with food for babies – foods that are as important as vitamins and minerals. Like food, infant massage is also important because it relaxes their bodies and boosts their immune system. Studies show that touch therapy contributes to a healthy weight gain, enhanced growth, and social development in infants and children as well.

Touch therapy is one simple way of combating the stresses and strains of modern life that could cause damage to both mind and body. The physical benefits include the following:

1. Reduces muscular tension, aches and pains

2. Improves blood circulation

3. Reduces headaches and eyestrain

4. Helps ease insomnia

5. Helps ease depression

6. Re-energises and stimulates body and mind

7. Promotes relaxation

8. Improves sense of general well being

According to studies, the healing wonders of massage and healing touch therapies

There are a number of doctors already recommending massage therapies to patients with chronic diseases such as cancer, depression, osteoporosis and circulatory disorders. The reason for this is that the fact that human touch is taking place, there’s most probably something beneficial and healthy going on.

One doesn’t need to have a medical degree or a sophisticated machine or even years in training to give someone an effective massage. There is power in human touch alone.

So what makes touch therapy effective? It’s ones loving touch along with the positive healing intent that do wonders!