Hugging Helps To Reduce Stress,Fear And Anxiety. READ HOW

Tell me When was the last time you gave someone a hug? If you have to think about it, it's been too long. From now on, know that by sharing in a hug isn't just a way to show you care, it carries with it multiple health benefits too. And there's a study to prove it.

A study conducted by a University of North Carolina found that women recorded greater reductions in blood pressure than men after hugs with their partners. Not only that, they also had lower levels of the stress hormone, cortisol.

Lead psychologist of the study, Dr. Karen Grewen backed up the study by writing this in Psychosomatic Medicine, “Greater partner support is linked to higher oxytocin levels for both men and women. However, the importance of oxytocin and it’s potentially cardio-protective effects may be greater for women.”
It has been suggested that hugging can also:

**• Reduce stress, fear and anxiety*-

• Lower blood pressure

• Boost wellbeing

• Enhance memory function

Head of the Centre for Brain Research at the Medical University of Vienna, Neurophysiologist Jürgen Sandkühler supports this theory, further explaining, "The positive effect only occurs, however, if the people trust each other, if the associated feelings are present mutually and if the corresponding signals are sent out. If people do not know each other, or if the hug is not desired by both parties, its effects are lost."