Essay About Touch

As humans, we can’t live without touch. It 's in our nature, to be touched and crave touch. It 's how we commentate, with people we care about it. How you were raised at home, when it comes to touch will greatly impact your life. There are some people who don’t have any empathy, that partly comes from childhood. Touch is a language, we often overlook this matter. In my research paper, I will be going over, the important power that touch has on our lives. Understanding what touch means, Cognitively and psychically.

Touch is how we communication with the world around us. It’s a physical feel with someone else, and also emotional. There are four basic principles of touch, I will go over them. The first is intimate, we have pressure receptors

We learn, from a young age that touch is comfort from a parent. There was a study done in Romanian orphanages, to see the outcome of the neglected children. These kids were neglected due to overcrowding inside the orphanages, they found out that infant was strictly impaired by deprivation. These kids didn’t have a parent or someone that cared about them to emotionally connect to. This period is the sensitive period They found out when these kids grew up that had an aspect on the Brian. The child 's hippocampus shrieked. The research did an EEG on the kids, after eight years after being at the orphanages. They also found out that kids who are at the orphanages had more gray matter than kids who are living with their parents, who had white matter. Gray matter represent Brian cells. The white matter in kids who were fostered, had a higher count of brain cells. They had the attention they needed and touch from their foster parents. In the book Baby meets world Written by Nicholas Day he talks about how important touch is the first few years in life. He says “ Touch is Life” I understand this quote in way that life is about touch. How we connected with world, how we make our feelings clear. It’s a way of expression towards other people. Touch is a two-way street, between a mother and child. There are myths about spoiling a baby, if there held to long. Other myths are Don’t walk around with a with baby it will get used to it. The mother likes to enjoy her baby, after changing the diaper and feeding. She wants to hold and kiss the baby. She feels comfort and enjoyment, touching something she made. The babies, on the other hand, is learning about many different things at once at the same time. Touching the baby kissing and squeezing is a way to show affectation. There’s is a biochemical aspect to it. Being touched release oxytocin and endorphins, that creates a low stress to your body. This fact is for all the