“I believe that massage is transformative and like magic, it can change your mood from bad to good in minutes. The benefits of touch are amazing. Soothing, nurturing touch therapy can get rid of stress, restore balance, and re-energize your body and your mind.“
– Michelle Ebbin

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The need for touch

As a society, we are touch deprived and this can lead to disease or emotional dysfunction. Just as babies need touch to thrive, adults need to touch and be touched in order to be healthy and well in body, mind and spirit.

Did you know that touch is the greatest sense in our body? The skin is the largest and oldest sensory organ of the body, our first method of communication, and our body’s most efficient protector.

The sense of touch is the earliest sense to develop in the human embryo. As a sensory system the skin is much the most important organ in the body. For a human being can spend his life without the senses of sight, hearing, smell and taste, but he cannot survive without the functions performed by the skin.

The surface area of the skin has an enormous number of sensory receptors receiving stimuli of heat, cold, touch, pressure, and pain. A piece of skin the size of a quarter contains more than 3 million cells, 100-340 sweat glands, 3 feet of blood vessels, and 50 nerve endings. In effect, the skin may be regarded as an exposed portion of the nervous system.