Tactile contact is the secret weapon for a harmonious relationship.

Tactile contact is a secret weapon that we get to create successful and lasting relationships. This is our language given to us since birth. But over time, we forget about its importance. How can we return to natural communication?

Psychologists recommend in order to remember what a tactile touch connect your imagination and imagine yourself in a bus crowded with people. Passengers, being in a sleepy state, continue to reproduce their thoughts and emotions by means of inertia with the help of tactile sensations. A loving couple holds hands, a small child seeks support from his mother - pulls her hands and calms down.

Types of communication

Everyone knows that we can communicate verbally and nonverbally. But the fact that with the help of movements and expressions can convey quite complex emotions and desires, not many know. We are careful in our touch, 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 reflects an objective evaluation.

The most accurate and not at all easy way to communicate

The researchers concluded that with the help of facial expressions and voice, we can identify one or two positive signals - a good mood and joy. Nevertheless, research proves that touching (tactile sensations) is a more accurate and subtle way of communication than voice and facial expression.

In addition, by touching you can increase the speed of communication, that is, touch - this is the easiest way to give a signal about something. Tactile contact with a man helps girls create a deeper sense of communication. Touching is also important in the relationship between mother and child, because we begin to get tactile sensations even before birth. When mom touches her child, she gives him a sense of security.

Importance of touching

A warm touch helps release the hormone oxytocin, which increases the sense of attachment and trust between people. This can also explain our habit of touching ourselves: rub your hands, stroke your forehead, your hair. Tactile contact helps us to experience all the same positive feelings that the person we touch also experiences. The study showed that embracing, we receive as much benefit as the person whom we embrace. In addition, by touching a person, we get information about his emotional state. We will find out how it is set up: friendly or hostile. He is relaxed or tense. Such information will help us to choose the right tactics in communication. Therefore, it can be said that tactile sensations are the simplest way to strengthen intimacy in a romantic relationship.

Tactile memory

Tactile memory refers to memories of the sensations experienced by us while touching an object. Let's say you once stroked a snake in a zoo, and now every time you see a snake (on TV, for example), you remember what cold skin it has.

Tactile memory is not associated 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 the memory uses vision, then, as a rule, tactile sensations are not remembered by us.