Great idea! The best part is that hugging is fantastic for our health. Harvard's Health Letter reports that recent research found that women who often hug their partners have lower blood pressure than those who do so infrequently.
Among the more promising touch therapy approaches:
* Healing touch. Practitioners use their hands above or on the body, using a gentle touch, with the intent of affecting the body’s energy fields. One study found that patients had shorter hospital stays if they received healing touch before and after open-heart surgery.
* Reiki. This centuries-old practice involves light touch over different parts of the body in an ordered sequence. In one study, people who underwent Reiki sessions before cardiac catheterization reported feeling more confident, and their cardiologists said these patients were more relaxed and cooperative.
* Massage therapy. Massage uses various techniques to manipulate the body’s soft tissues through pressure and movement. A study found that systolic blood pressure dropped significantly in individuals who received massage therapy compared with those who had not.
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Great idea! The best part is that hugging is fantastic for our health. Harvard's Health Letter reports that recent research found that women who often hug their partners have lower blood pressure than those who do so infrequently.
Among the more promising touch therapy approaches:
* Healing touch. Practitioners use their hands above or on the body, using a gentle touch, with the intent of affecting the body’s energy fields. One study found that patients had shorter hospital stays if they received healing touch before and after open-heart surgery.
May 5, 2008 - 7:51am* Reiki. This centuries-old practice involves light touch over different parts of the body in an ordered sequence. In one study, people who underwent Reiki sessions before cardiac catheterization reported feeling more confident, and their cardiologists said these patients were more relaxed and cooperative.
* Massage therapy. Massage uses various techniques to manipulate the body’s soft tissues through pressure and movement. A study found that systolic blood pressure dropped significantly in individuals who received massage therapy compared with those who had not.
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