"101
Ways to Attack Your Headache
BEFORE the Pain Starts!" Tip 42 : Touch therapy is a new technique to
cure headaches.
Touch therapy is a new technique that is just becoming available
to cure headaches. A lot of research is going on this area and
even now experts have not been able to identify how touch therapy
can help in healing. The best possible explanation is that our
bodies are in fact tuned to respond to the touches of others.
When we were babies our mother’s touch was perhaps the
most reassuring thing in the world. In fact experts are baffled
by the way new born babies are able to distinguish between a mother’s
touch and the touch of a stranger.
As we grow older we delight in the encouraging pats and caresses
of our parents and teachers. Even in our social life there is
a lot of touching going on. That is probably why people use the
hand shake as an exchange of warmth.
So when a person is ill and miserable, the touch of another person
especially if it is a person who really cares for you can relieve
you of your pain.
The only thing that the person has to do is to be gentle. He
or she should stop when the patient has had enough.
To learn more on touch therapy try out www.kripalu.org.
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