How to release more oxytocin?

❤️Happy Valentines❤️

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Oxytocin, often dubbed the “love hormone”, is known to promote social bonding.

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One of the primary ways to release oxytocin is through touching.🤗

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Obviously, it’s not always appropriate to touch most people, but small touches like handshakes and pats on the back are usually okay😏

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Touching is incredibly powerful. We just don’t give it enough credit. It makes you:

✔️more persuasive,

✔️increases team performance,

✔️improves your flirting

✔️heck, it even boosts math skills

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Touching someone you ‪love actually‬ reduces pain. In fact, when studies were done on married couples, the stronger the marriage, the more powerful the effect.😱

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A hug, especially a long one, releases a neurotransmitter and hormone oxytocin, which reduces the reactivity of the amygdala.

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Research shows getting five hugs a day for four weeks increases happiness big time.

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Your homework for today: GIVE SOMEBODY a LONG HUG🤗

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Happy Valentines❤️

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