Healing Touch

When we say that somebody touches us emotionally, it means he or she has gone to the core of our being. Physical touch, too, is more than skin - deep. Skin is the human body’s largest organ, containing millions of receptors - about 8000 in a single finger tip - that send messages through nerve fibers to the spinal cord and then to the brain. A simple touch - a hand on a shoulder, an arm around a waist - can reduce the heart rate and lower blood pressure. Even people in deep comas may show changes in their heart rates when their hands are held. Positive, nurturing touch appears to stimulate the release of endorphines, the body’s natural pain suppressors. That may explain why a mother’s hug can literally "make it better" when a child skins his knee.

Reference: http://www.toddlertime.com/mh/terms/healing-touch.htm

Badly drawn boy made this nice song for his album One plus one is one in 2004, but the video is the best example of what I mean by touching heals not only your body, your mind and your soul but your society, your work, etc. Many people out there just need to be held to improve :)