Touch is one of the most powerful expressions of love, breaking down barriers and bonding relationships. Touch changes our physical and emotional states and makes us more receptive to love. Just the mere act of walking by your partner and touching the back of their hand, or brushing their hair back from their face or holding each other in the night is healing to mind, body, soul and spirit.

When you touch someone with good feelings, the energy you have flows into them, radiating throughout their being. Likewise when we are touched, we draw on our partner’s energy. In a study from the Pediatric Medical Society, it was found that mothers who touch their babies within moments after birth, and continue to touch and caress them are more likely to have less post-partum and the babies have less chance of colic. Likewise fathers who are present at birth and hold their baby are more apt to have less feelings of isolation and participate more in the critical child rearing years of birth to 18.
By bringing pets to the elderly, hospice caregivers have noted an increase in activity, appetite and well being by the aged being able to ‘touch’ a living being, even if it is furry.

Have you ever really touched your partner? Or had your partner really touch you? Not just an act of sex, but taking the time to explore their curves and ridges, the curve of their calf or the way their arms are shaped? Are you familiar with how they respond to your touch, when you caress or when you tickle or when you just rest your head against them?
One of the most sensuous acts I’ve ever participated in was washing my man’s feet then drying them with my hair. It allowed me to become familiar with all of him while he trusted me enough to allow me to explore a part of him that his wife of 16 years had never even looked at nor expressed an interest in. It forged a bond between that no one can ever break.

Just the mere act of walking by your partner and touching the back of their hand, or brushing their hair back from their face or holding each other in the night is healing to mind, body, soul and spirit.

About the author: Having searched for 42 years before finding the other 1/2 of her dividedsoul, Dr. Goodhead has since become one of the WWW most sought after authorities on internet relationships. Under her real persona she has over 27 articles in print or on the WWW.