P eople have been conditioned to avoid physical contact after they reach their teenage years. We are expected to outgrow it. However, human beings are social creatures by nature and we need physical contact to maintain our mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being. Without touch, we become nervous, irritable, and depressed. To Touch and Feel is to Experience.
Many people live out their entire lives without ever really Touching or being Touched by anything.
These people live within a world of mind and imagination that may move them sometimes to joy, tears, happiness, or sorrow. But these people never really Touch. They do not live and become one with life . People need to learn how to touch each other. The 15-Minute StressOut Program does its best to teach physical communicaton emphasizing safe, appropriate, and skillful touch.