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The Unseen Effects of Embracing Someone

Friday, December 16, 2016 15:28
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December 17th, 2016

By Frank M. Wanderer, Ph.D

Guest writer for Wake Up World

Intimacy is one of the most elementary human needs. Its wealth nourishes the human soul.

One of the most beautiful expression of intimacy is when two people embrace each other. This wonderful human gesture — the hug — is a store of great secrets and benefits.

So what are the secrets of the embrace? Embrace has a smaller and a greater secret…

The Small Secret of the Embrace

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The small secret of the embrace is that it has a wide range of positive physiological and psychological effects. For instance, it increases trust and confidence, it reduces anxiety, fear, and pain, boosts the immune system, and alleviates the aftermath of stress.

An embrace means closeness and warmth in human relations, it is the most intimate expression of love. An embrace reinforces connections, it affords a sense of safety and improves the intensity of two people’s sense of belonging together. An embrace provides us with the an exceptionally intensive sense of belonging to another person — and it is not possible to generate the same emotion in any other way. An embrace is also a form of communication, and with it, we may express things that we are not able to put into words.

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