Tactile contact is the secret weapon we receive to create successful and lasting relationships. This is our language, given to us from birth. But over time, we forget about its importance. How do we return to natural communication?
Psychologists recommend in order to remember what tactile contact is to connect your imagination and imagine yourself in a bus full of people. Passengers, being in a drowsy state, 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 her hands to her and calms down.
Types of communication
Everyone knows that we can communicate verbally and non-verbally. But the fact that with the help of movements and expressions you can convey fairly 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 displays an objective assessment.
The most accurate and far from easy way to communicate
The researchers concluded that with the help of facial expressions and voices, we can determine one or two positive signals - good mood and joy. However, research proves that touch (tactile sensations) is a more accurate and subtle way of communicating than sounding a voice and facial expression.
In addition, with the help of touches, you can increase the speed of communication, that is, touching is the easiest way to give a signal about 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, since we begin to get tactile sensations even before birth. When a mother touches her baby, she gives him a sense of security.
The importance of touch
A warm touch promotes the release of the hormone oxytocin, which increases the sense of affection and trust between people. This also explains our habit of touching ourselves: rubbing our hands, stroking our forehead and hair. Tactile contact helps us to experience all the same positive sensations that the person we touch also experiences. The study showed that hugging gives us just as much benefit as the person we hug. In addition, touching a person, we will receive information about his emotional state. We learn how he is configured: friendly or hostile. He is relaxed or tense. Such information will help us choose the right tactics in communication. Therefore, it can be said that tactile sensations are the easiest way to strengthen intimacy in romantic relationships.
Tactile memory
Tactile memory refers to the memory of the sensations we experience when we touch any object. Suppose you once stroked a snake in a zoo, and now every time you see a snake (on TV, for example), you remember how cold it is.
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 vision is involved in remembering, then, as a rule, we don’t remember tactile sensations.