Therapeutic Benefits Of Touch And Its Impact On The Human Body

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The benefit of touch has great effect on the human body. It's many healing benefits are important because of our basic human need to be nurtured through touch. Touch is used in many ways. In reflexology we use touch in a massage which will help to make a person preform and feel a lot better, touch during massage also inchanses the immune system to function and reduces people suffering with high blood pressure. Touch and massage has many more therapeutic benefits on the body. We use touch in everyday life for example if we hurt are arm or we burn ourselves our automatic response is to rub or hold and touch the effected

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