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The Power of Intimacy: Boosting Trust, Attachment, and Connection

Name: The Power of Intimacy: Boosting Trust, Attachment, and Connection
Uploaded: 2024-05-22T16:00:42+00:00
Duration: 43 s
Channel: Dave Willis
Description: A short conversational excerpt from a May 22, 2024 YouTube video by Dave Willis discussing how physical touch nurtures intimacy. The speakers say…

22 May 2024 · 1 min

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A short conversational excerpt from a May 22, 2024 YouTube video by Dave Willis discussing how physical touch nurtures intimacy. The speakers say research shows touch promotes feeling understood, accepted, and cared for, and strongly influences physical and emotional well-being. They state that physical bonding releases oxytocin (the "love" or "intimacy" hormone), which raises trust, attachment, and connection — applying both to parent-child bonds and to spousal/intimate relationships.

It says that this plays a vital.
Role in the nurturing of intimacy, in.
Particular, because.
Research shows that this kind of physical touch promotes a sense of being understood.
Accepted.
And cared for. And it has a huge influence on just your physical and emotional well being.
So, like, when that.
Oxytocin is released in physical touch and bonding, they refer.
To that as the love hormone. Now, where you've heard this before is.
With children, like.
As a mother to a child or a father to a.
Child, but.
This is even more so. It applies to.
This bonding of a husband and wife. And so when we engage specifically in intimate touch.
Our oxytocin.
Levels rise and.
We feel trust.
Attachment, and connection. And so it brings that intimacy.
Literally. It's the intimacy hormone, really.