Tactile contact is the secret weapon we get to create successful and lasting relationships. This is our language, given to us from birth. But over time, we forget about its importance. How can we return to natural communication?
Psychologists recommend that in order to remember what tactile contact is, connect your imagination and imagine yourself on a bus crowded with people. Passengers, being half asleep, by inertia continue to reproduce their thoughts and emotions with the help of tactile sensations. A couple in love holds hands, a small child seeks support from his mother - pulls his hands to her and calms down.
Types of communication
Everyone knows that we can communicate verbally and non-verbally. But the fact that quite complex emotions and desires can be conveyed with the help of movements and expressions is not known to many. We are careful with our touches, but we can receive and transmit signals with their help. That is, we have the ability to interpret tactile contact. When we touch another person, our brain displays an objective evaluation.
The most accurate and far from the easiest way to communicate
Researchers concluded that with the help of facial expressions and voice, we can identify one or two positive signals - good mood and joy. However, research proves that touch (tactile sensations) is a more precise and subtle way of communicating than voice and facial expressions.
In addition, with the help of touch you can increase the speed of communication, that is, touch is the easiest way to signal something. Tactile contact with a man helps girls create a deeper sense of connection. Touch is also important in the relationship between mother and child, as we begin to receive tactile sensations even before birth. When a mother touches her child, she gives him a sense of security.
The importance of touch
Warm touch releases the hormone oxytocin, which increases feelings of affection and trust between people. This can also explain our habit of touching ourselves: rubbing our hands, stroking our forehead, hair. Tactile contact helps us experience all the same positive sensations that the person we touch also experiences. Research has shown that by hugging, we get as much benefit as the person we hug. In addition, by touching a person, we will receive information about his emotional state. We will find out how he is set up: friendly or hostile. Whether he is relaxed or tense. This information will help us choose the right tactics incommunication. Therefore, we can say that tactile sensations are the easiest way to strengthen intimacy in a romantic relationship.
Tactile memory
Tactile memory is the memory of the sensations we experience when we touch an object. Let's say you once stroked a snake at the zoo, and now every time you see a snake (on TV, for example), you remember how cold its skin is.
Tactile memory is not connected with the organs of vision, it involves the organs of touch. Otherwise, we can talk about the joint work of visual and tactile memory. If vision is involved in memorization, then, as a rule, tactile sensations are not remembered by us.
