to put your hand on or over the injured spot when you get hurt in that area? It also seems natural to do the same with your child or someone you care about. They get hurt and you automatically touch that person to help.
Does this gesture derive from the compassion in us or is it just a unconcious reaction?
2006-07-26 11:47:10 · 9 answers · asked by .. 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
correction: unconscious reaction.
2006-07-26 11:47:49 · update #1
I guess any kind of touch. The gesture to touch, whether it's the injured area or some other area.
2006-07-26 11:55:32 · update #2
Touching is healing, I believe, linty.
Yes, it is an unconscious reaction - we have the knowledge of the universe in ourselves and it comes to us whenever we need it, we just have to let it flow.
A good example of this healing touching in action is when a mother touches her child who has fever, in the forehead. If she does this long enough, the fever will go down.The same thing helps to calm down a child who is scared or too much agitated, for any reason.
Good question!:)
2006-07-26 12:30:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 1⤋
For me, it comes naturally to want to touch someone, especially when I'm caring for a patient that is suffering. I also like touching someone, to show that I care. I think it's just a natural instinct to touch, but not everyone has this instinct I'm sure. Touch comes much easier for some, than others. To me, it also shows that you're really in tune with the person you're communicating with... a lot like eye to eye contact. I'm mostly talking about touching a person's hand or something like that. I also think that yes, it has much to do with compassion.
As far as touching a spot that you've injured, etc., I think it comes more from an unconscious reaction...possibly to guard or protect from further injury.
I once took a class called Touch Therapy...it was very enlightening and quite interesting. Touch is very much a healing modality, no doubt about it! They say that a child that is never touched, suffers greatly. I firmly believe that touch is a huge part of being human, and it shows our capacity to share with, and to care about others. Touch has also been proven to reduce pain equally as well as pain medication, depending on the circumstances of course.
Great question!
2006-07-27 03:27:35 · answer #2 · answered by Caroline 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the most profound questions one can ask. I suggest looking at: The Moral Animal by Robert Wright The Science of Good and Evil by Michael Shermer The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley The Moral Sense by James O.Wilson Honor, A History by James Bowman The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker And Darwin's Dangerous Idea and Conscious Explained by Daniel Dennett
2016-03-16 06:01:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It derives from stupidity.
I hate when I hurt myself and somebody asks where. I might point to my head (for example) if I just banged it and what do they do?
Yep.
They try to touch it. How gormless is that????
Never mind it burns like mad and it gets much worse if anybody touches it. Absolutely the last thing on earth I need is some damned fool poking and prodding at the bits of me that are sore. So if if the urge to touch a wound is instinctive it's related to some kind of death wish.
2006-07-26 12:48:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If your the type to "Lend a Helping Hand" its from compassion, otherwise a cold hearted person would leave you to your pain, especially if they inflicted it, however if they had any compassion they would turn around and help you as in a boxing match they hit each other for sport but when one is knocked down the other might give him a touch symbolizing "its nothing personal".
2006-07-26 13:54:20 · answer #5 · answered by supraracer87 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah Mooch, you crack me up. Hands radiate healing energy and our innate response to someone's pain is to assist in relieving it. Thus our hands go to the area almost automatically and yes, it's instinctual. If you study Reiki or other similar healing modalities you'll learn about the chakras located on our hands and how the energy coming through them can effect the healing process.
2006-07-26 13:53:03 · answer #6 · answered by CosmicKiss 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you know when I think about it this is not something I do.... yet I am a very compassionate person... if someone is injured, whether I know them or not I usually will touch a non-inured area like the hand or face to offer reassurance.... and to distract their attnetion from the injury..
2006-07-26 11:52:42 · answer #7 · answered by wollemi_pine_writer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah..It is pure instinct..We dont allow others to touch it before we do..
2006-07-27 03:57:33 · answer #8 · answered by savi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is instinct...and a concealed awareness...
2006-07-29 10:57:37 · answer #9 · answered by . 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I felt it was.
TFTP
2006-07-26 11:51:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋