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When we are born, the first one of our senses available to us is the sense of touch. Even before we open our eyes, we can already feel touch and physical contact. Experiencing physical contact plays a vital role in our physical and psychological health. A plea to letting more physical connection into your life.

There are many means to support our human senses – a pair of glasses if our eyes are struggling, hearing aid devices for a deteriorating sense of hearing. We couldn’t survive without our senses, which is why these means of support are extremely useful to us. How else could we get a feeling of what surrounds us if we didn’t have our senses guiding us?

The emotional importance of our sense of touch

Hearing, seeing, smelling – these are the senses we think of in the context of our own survival. Rarely would we add our sense of touch to that list. Somehow this crucial sense of ours has been underestimated for a long time. Strangely enough – if you think about how useful its function actually is: holding a knife, for example, typing an email on our smartphone, or noticing the heat of a stove plate when we put our hand on it (a painful lecture most of us experienced as a child). Our sense of touch is just as important for our survival. But apart from these useful functions, it is responsible for very pleasing sensations as well. How else could we experience the sensation of a touch on our skin, someone holding our hand, or kissing our lips – not being able to feel those things is quite hard to imagine. And quite dangerous to our well-being too. Our sense of touch has vital functions for our psychological and physical well-being.