Social sciences October 2021

Hugging relaxes and benefits our health

    Articles on Hugging, Physical activity, dancing, skin nerve endings and “arousing” signals


     
     

     
     

     
     

     

  • Hugging has relaxing and calming effect that benefits our health

    Hugging has to do with our sense of « slow-touch », made of « cuddle nerves ». It has a relaxing and calming effect that benefits our health in four ways : it improves our sleep, it reduces reactivity to stress, it increases wellbeing and pleasure and could help us fight off infections.

     

     

    Physical activity reduces depressive symptoms and increases brain’s ability to change

    Physical activity not only reduces depressive symptoms. It also increases the brain’s ability to change, called neuroplasticity, which is important for learning and adaptation processes.

     

     

    The importance of dancing like an idiot

    Dancing has always been viewed as a form of exercise that is extremely beneficial to our mental health, despite the current reluctance to be seen as an idiot. It allows a saving liberation of the individual and a reconstruction of the collective by connecting us and reassuring us.

     

     

    Nerve endings in the skin respond to touching and send “arousing” signals to the brain

    Nerve endings in the skin respond to touching and send signals to the brain to arouse sexual desire under the right circumstances. But the brain uses other cues to interpret the signals emitted by these nerves, so being touched by a lover, for example, does not have the same effect as being touched by a friend.

     

     

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