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Human touch does trigger positive neurochemical cascades. We might understand how all this works much better in the future, perhaps we big improvements in in vi
by mmhsieh 7y ago
Human touch does trigger positive neurochemical cascades. We might understand how all this works much better in the future, perhaps we big improvements in in vivo imaging of biological processes. Maybe some future version of CARS microscopy that does not fry the cell; better theory on multi-scale processes in human biology; and much better fMRI than what we have now.
- zdragnar 7y agoI think "can" is better than "does trigger" here. I know I am not alone in genuinely disliking physical contact with anyone at all, including strangers, friends, parents, pretty much anyone other than my wife. I put up with it for ease of social pleasantries, but otherwise am much more comfortable not touching than touching. Massages are at best pointless and at worst counterproductive for me.
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- chrisdone 7y agoReiki does not involve touch.
- mkl 7y agoThe article refers to it as "touch-based healing", and every picture of it bar one involves touching. Is the article wrong? Wikipedia also claims it involves touch: "the only thing that distinguishes reiki from Therapeutic touch is that it [reiki] involves actual touch".