A touch sensitivity or tactition
it is the first among fife life sensations what an
embryo of 12 weeks old obtains in the development
progress. That meant each of us had the very first
experience to communicate with the world by
touching the inner uterus wall. Then we had the
first response from the world by being touched
back. Feeling the uterus wall discovers for us
that there is exists the World and we realized
that stay here not alone.
“In recent
years, a wave of studies has documented some
incredible emotional and physical health
benefits that come from touch. This research is
suggesting that touch is truly fundamental to
human communication, bonding, and health.” (Dr.
Dacher Keltner)
Physiology of
touch-relaxation effect (see more)
When somebody
touches us, there's pressure pushing on the skin
at the point of contact. And just under the skin
are pressure receptors called "Pacinian
corpuscles. They receive pressure
stimulation, and the pressure receptors send a
signal to the brain. A touch
activates the brain’s orbitofrontal
cortex, which is linked to feelings
of reward and compassion. Touch signals safety
and trust, it soothes. Basic warm touch calms
cardiovascular stress. It activates the body’s vagus
nerve (n. vagus), one of the 12 cranial
nerves in the brain, which in turn slows the
heart and decreases the production of stress
hormones including cortisol
(hydrocortisone). The same time it
triggers release of oxytocin,
AKA “the love hormone” or "cuddle hormone", what
makes feel more trusting and connected.(Dr.
Dacher Keltner, Dr. Matt Hertenstein and Dr.Tiffany Field).
Why to hold something
is good for relaxation?
When we touch something
it also “touches” us. Our body is balancing a
temperature with something or someone during
holding or hugging it. Then the phenomenal effect
arises: our spatial sensation change and our inner
space increase. Now “we” are bigger on the size of
the subject or object that we interact with. The
walls of our private box move aside and we are
getting opener to the Universe.
A benefit of this
practice is an ability to be less vulnerable, more
adoptable and accept easier any hard situations
what we face each day. The touch relaxation
practice turns us from a “hard nut” what can be
crushed down by any powerful blow, to a “soft
ball”, what just reflect it and back to previous
condition very next time.
We recommend the
Self-relaxation Practice with Shikyu-chan © for
any people under any life circumstances.
If you are a hard-working
man or business-woman, busy housewife and mother,
to-mush-learning student; you are far away from
your close person and relative, you feel lonely –
© The Self-relaxation Practice with Shikyu-chan is
match to you.
© The Self-relaxation Practice with
Shikyu-chan and pregnancy
If you are pregnant, pick
Shikyu-chan yourself and prectice with it.
Obstetricians,
midwifes and nurses may suggest © The
Self-relaxation Practice with
Shikyu-chan:
1. for
pregnant women, it helps them to develop
connection to their baby, to activate a touch
sensation helps to raise a positive feeling for
baby’s movement into the womb. That practice
establishes inner communication between mother and
baby without an interruption from external world.
A flow of contradictory Information will not able
to put pregnant woman to worry and panic
condition;
2. for women
in
labor,
it
helps them to keep their mind and body under
control during the labor pain. Holding the
Shikyu-chan makes women in labot to feel much
protected by natural love. It is really supportive
in that hard time;
3. for
women after delivery, it help to feel not lonely.
During 10 months of pregnancy woman was a center
of people's attention and support, then, after her
baby was born, all concerns were shifted to
newborn infant. © The Self-relaxation Practice
with Shikyu-chan simply can give her to feel
physical touch and shrink feeling of loneliness.
4. for women
who are going to or trying to get pregnant for
while, © The
Self-relaxation Practice with Shikyu-chan could
be one of an infertility treatment
approach.
Caregivers may suggest © The
Self-relaxation Practice with Shikyu-chan for
people in grief after lost their loved one,
patient who suffer with pain and in termination
stage. In all of these physical and mental
conditions to feel someone’s “hand” in own palm
is very supportive.
How to practice
There is no any especial
way to practice. Just softly squeeze the
Shikyu-chan in your palm for 30 – 60 minutes.
During this time try do not think about anything
in particular.
Some people who
practice the Self-relaxation with Shikyu-chan
image themselves a womb what embraces and
accepts of fragile embryo – Shikyu-chan.
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