The following scriptures tell us that there is a special impartation given through touch. One third of those receptors are located in our hands. Dr. Dolores Krieger, professor of nursing at New York University found that haemoglobin levels in both peoples blood streams rise with the touch of their hands. As the haemoglobin levels increase body tissues receive more oxygen which energizes a person and aids in the regenerative process. Both the toucher and the touched receive a physiological benefit.
Some studies show that meaningful touch can increase our life span by up to two years.
In a study at the UCLA it was found that to maintain emotional and physical health we need eight to ten meaningful touches each day. Schanberg and Butler at Duke University Medical School found that without maternal touch, rat pups do not produce a type of protein crucial to their growth and the development of major organs was shut down. Put the pups with their mother and production of the enzyme resumed. God designed meaningful touch to promote wholeness in us. Jesus commands us to administer his love and acceptance to our world.