The Power of Touch: The Basis for Survival, Health, Intimacy, and Emotional Well-Being!
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Were you raised in a “non-touching” atmosphere? Is your “inner hunger” really a yearning for touch? Do you know what your touching “taboos” are? Do you wish you could feel more comfortable touching others or being touched? Are you fulfilling your loved one’s need for touch? Would you like to learn how touching influences behavior and how it could enrich your daily?
In the revised edition of her exciting book, The Power of Touch, Phyllis K. Davis explores the human need to touch and be touched–and how America’s cultural taboos have made us a touch-starved nation.
Phyllis shares important insights on physical contact, not only as a biological need, but also as a language that communicates love more powerfully than words.Thought provoking and inspiring, The Power of Touch examines the catastrophic effects on individuals not nurtured by loving touch. People deprived of this kind of touch often exhibit compulsive overeating, restlessness, drug abuse, promiscuity, and workaholism. Even more shocking–singles deprived of touch have a death rate five times higher than their married counterparts.
Phyllis also refutes the myth that picking up crying infants spoils them and stresses the role being physically nurtured as babies plays in becoming well-adjusted adults. To help the reader learn how to bring more touch into their lives, Phyllis includes a chapter of touching exercises and ideas. “Without touch, a baby dies, the human heart aches, and the soul withers.
Touch is communication on the most basic level: The Power of Touch is about the language of love spoken through physical contact. The need for touch is a necessity throughout our lives, from birth to death, which serves to sustain us emotionally and physically.
She discusses how touch can improve relationships of all kinds-parent/child, man/woman, friend/friend-help heal the body, and open the heart to a deeper love. She provides insights into the role of touch in infant health, sexual satisfaction, well-being of the elderly, and she suggests a number of activities and exercises that will make touching a delightful and valuable tool in your life.
In this wonderful book, author Phyllis K. Davis teaches you about the role of touch in healing, infant care, raising children, developmental psychology, lovemaking, old age, and friendship. The message is simple: Open your heart, reach out, and touch those you care about.
If you are a friend, parent, massage therapist, teacher, lover, grandparent, caretaker, health-care professional–or just a compassionate human being–you will learn how even the briefest and simplest forms of touch influence your behavior and enrich the lives of those sharing your world.
ASIN : B005KSGHWW
Publisher : Hay House LLC
Accessibility : Learn more
Publication date : April 1, 1999
Edition : Revised
Language : English
File size : 1.8 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 276 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-1401933074
Page Flip : Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #624,510 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #204 in New Age Self-Help #442 in Self-Help in New Age Religion #806 in Communication & Social Skills Self-Help eBooks
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Ina –
This book supports my belief and I feel it would be a wonderful gift for a “bride-to-be
I always believed that touch was powerful and important. This book supports my belief and I feel it would be a wonderful gift for a “bride-to-be.” She could read it and share it with her future spouse prior to marriage. They could then discuss it’s contents and their thoughts on them. I believe that it would be very beneficial.. I have given it to mine and others and they agree.. Needs to be made available again.
Dale –
Must read
Gave onsite to the reason we touch. It reassured me to hug my grandchildren more.
Reverend Raymond –
Just an amazing book. It really made me hunk about the …
Just an amazing book. It really made me hunk about the power of touch and the need for touch in my own personal life.
Wanderingwithapurpose –
Good!
Good!
Joseph M. Oliver –
Great! We all need it
Great ! We all need it ,some more than others! !!
bunnyrabbit4 –
Much needed book but too repetitive
After watching my mother, who has a personality disorder, hold my infant neice, I was struck by how she did not seem to convey much love and security through touch. I began to wonder what the outcome of this was for infants whose sole caretaker was this kind of mother. I purchased this book on kindle and also several of Alice Miller’s works including ” The Drama of the Gifted Child” and Ashley Montagu’s “Touch the Human Significance of the Skin.” I found that all contained much of the same technical information as this book, but were infinitly more readable because they did not repeat themselves and were written by people who had the credentials to speculate a bit further on the topic of outcomes. Miller, who is a psychiatrist does take some intellectual leaps, but they are interesting to contemplate and even when they go too far, hold kernals of truth. Montagu looks at touch from the broader perspective of an anthropologist who can reflect on its importance throughout the development of man as a species. Davis’ book has some interesting touch exercises in it, but they are more about proving her points than revealing new insights.On the plus side, this book makes a strong case for more non-sexual touch and talks about how we are increasingly outlawing touch in schools by declaring every touch to be sexual and unwanted. It is part of her premise that this actually leads to more sexual behavior because adolescents are touch deprived. She does a great deal of touch advocacy but in the end leaves us with little to make the book a page turner.
Michelle, 44, spirituality magazine editor –
Touch–A Key to Human Transformation
As a managing editor working in the field of human potential and spirituality, I have been privileged to read the marvelous insights and practices of hundreds of authors. This incredible body of work has expanded my knowledge and understanding of what it means to be human, but none of these others works has ever touched me as deeply and helped me to transform myself and others as much as Dr. Phyllis Davis’ The Power of Touch.Dr. Davis addresses a painful, aching need for society and individuals: “skin hunger,” the need to feel human touch, a desire that she says “runs much deeper than the desire for sex.” This need-largely unfulfilled during the ages of more traditional lifestyles-will increase by many orders of magnitude, I fear, as we choose to immerse ourselves in an information technology-driven world where our main involvement with others rests with e-mail and “reality shows” like Survivor and Big Brother.In The Power of Touch, Dr. Davis examines all aspects of our world-families, friendships, intimate relationships, and the workplace-to reveal the painful results of touch deprivation. In a world where so many people are living without the validation and self-assurance that come from touches and hugs, or a simple caress, it is no wonder that the movement toward increased spirituality in the workplace has faltered. Too many people have never experienced the power and the magic Dr. Davis attributes to touch, but they are hungering to do so.A few years ago, after one of my first readings of The Power of Touch (in its first edition), I put Dr. Davis’ ideas to the test. I was then working as a media relations specialist for a Fortune 500 company in Los Angeles. At a City Hall reception one evening, I saw a company executive who earlier in the day had completed his first broadcast media interview. “How did it go?” I asked, standing a comfortable “businesslike” distance from him. He replied in what can only be described as an engineer’s technical monotone (he is an engineer). I then proceeded to “bubble over” as I expressed how proud I was of him. Without thinking (and I did not know this executive particularly well), I touched his arm and his back in a brief, but friendly hug. An electric jolt could not have changed this man’s outward expression more. The stern lines of his face melted. A huge, almost boyish smile came over his face. He became animated and the rush of words were quite a departure from the monotone a moment earlier. His eyes glistened. He was human. He was happy. All because of a touch.