Your touch has the ability to lower heart rate, minimize inflammation, increase serotonin levels and help make a connection even when that seems near impossible.  Our skin is the largest organ of our body and you can make a big impact with purposeful connection between you and your loved one's skin.  When was the last time you felt a connection from touch?  Thinking about the impact that you can have by using your hands with a therapeutic intention might seem like a stretch for you but I guarantee you that it is not.  I walk you through how to use your hands to connect and bring restoration of rest and promote wellness for the one you care for. 

Listen to a true story of how I was able to connect with someone I was working with who was experiencing hallucinations and was otherwise completely disconnected from his physical and social environment.  We made a connection that had lasting impacts on he and his wife, in just 5 minutes and so can you.   

When our skin processes touch, the same areas of the brain that process decision-making and memory are activated.  If those are deficit areas with the one you care for and you can activate them with the simple use of your hands, why not give it a try.   here is the thing that you must know first.  You have to find inner peace and calm first.  Connecting with your own sense of wellbeing is a must.  Don't worry because I walk you through how to get started.

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Here are the links to the articles that are referenced: 
https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/10/3/295/449599?
"Here we focus only on the role of the orbitofrontal cortex in decision making and emotional processing, and the relationship between emotion, decision making and other cognitive functions of the frontal lobe, namely working memory"

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-good-life-human-touch
"Warm, friendly patterns of touch also calm down the recipient's neurophysiology of stress. In one study, simply holding the hand of a loved one deactivated stress-related regions of the brain when anticipating going through a stressful experience.

https://www.the-well.com/editorial/the-healing-power-of-touch
Something else happens when another person touches you: Your levels of serotonin — a neurotransmitter that basically acts as the body’s natural antidepressant and pain reliever — increase, says Field, who has studied this touch response and published her findings.

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