Miracle of Touch

A few years ago a group of young medical students were training in the children's ward of a large hospital. One particular student seemed especially loved by the children. They always greeted him with joy.the others could not understand why? Finally they detailed one of their number to follow him and find out what it was about him that attracted the children The observe detected nothing until night, when the young medic made his last round. Then the mystery was solved. He kissed child good-night.

Guideline number one for cultivating intimacy is :- Our bodies become our best tools for achieving genuine intimacy with those around us. If you observe this who have deep relationships, you will find that, although few of them are indiscriminate grabbers who hug everyone in sight, most have delicately tuned their sense of touch and it is in use every time the are with people. They listen with their eyes, they draw close to another person during conversation, and they make body contact frequently to keep communication at a warm level.

Ashley Montagu demonstrates that the skin, once regarded as little more than a simple body covering, is actually our most powerful sense organ. More than half a million sensory fibers flow from the skin though the spinal cord to the brain. As a sensory system its is the most important organ part of the body. A human being can function blind and deaf and completely lacking the senses of smell and taste, But it is impossible to survive at all without the function performed by the skin. It was once thought that animals licked their young merely to keep them clean. But as Montagu shown, the washing serves a much more profound purpose. Proper stimulation of the skin is essential for organic and behavioral development.

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