Cuddle Therapy
Cuddle therapy is designed to make people more comfortable with others. By this technique reduce stress, realise the pain, connect with your partner, increase love.
Best Cuddling Positions:
1. The “spoon”
• Spooning is the leading cuddling position. And let’s be real: It can be sexual, too.
• Anyone can be the “big spoon” when cuddling, but it’s often the larger or more dominant partner. When you’re the “big spoon,” you wrap your arms around your partner while you’re both lying close on your side; your stomach rests against their back. When you’re the “little spoon,” your partner wraps their arms around you and your back rests against their stomach.
2. The “half spoon”
• If traditional spooning leaves you a hot mess (and not in a good way), consider the “half spoon.” It allows you to be close enough to your partner to feel warm and indefinite, but far enough away that you won’t feel claustrophobic ( a person with an extreme or irrational fear of confined spaces).
3. The butt “cheek-to-cheek”
• In this position, you and your partner are facing opposite directions, but your butt cheeks and lower backs are touching.
• Knees are often bent, although you may stretch one leg and play footsie if you’re feeling happy.
• This position means you want to maintain a connection with your partner, but you value your freedom and sleep is high on your schedule.
4. Do the Big Spoon and Baby Spoon
5. The “sweetheart cradle”
• This position is often used when you need to be stimulated. Your partner lies on their back and holds you while your head rests on their chest.
• It’s a comforting form of cuddling that creates feelings of trust and well-being.
6. Do the Spoons in a Drawer
7. Do the Spork
Health Benefits of Cuddle therapy:
Ease Stress
When you cuddle with someone you care about, your body releases a hormone called oxytocin that calms you and makes you more likely to deal better with stress. For example, you might laugh, distract yourself, or try to solve a problem. It also can lower your blood pressure and lower levels of the “stress hormone” cortisol, which also can help.
May Help Your Heart
It’s good for your ticker if your blood pressure’s lower and your stress levels are down. Scientists say it’s clearer that women get this benefit from cuddling, but it seems to be true for both sexes.
Relieves Pain
A good cuddle may give you more than just moral support after an injury. The oxytocin it releases can help block pain signals. It works so well that doctors are trying to figure out how to treat people with a lab-made form of it.
Fight Colds
Hugs from people you trust may protect you against this common virus, especially if you’re under a lot of stress. And if you’re already sick, more cuddling might keep your symptoms from getting worse.
Connects You to Your Partner
Oxytocin is sometimes called the “love hormone” -- you often have more of it in your blood if you hug your partner a lot. Couples who cuddle and kiss freely tend to be happier, healthier, and less stressed.
Helps You Sleep
Oxytocin is the magic ingredient again, probably because of its calming effects. But some people wake up often if they fall asleep in a cuddling or “spooning” position. That’s OK. You can get a lot out of it in the 10 minutes or so before you go to sleep at night.
Helps Bond With Your Newborn
Parents who cuddle with their babies, especially skin-to-skin, feel closer to them and are more tuned in to their needs. Research shows that dads are likely to get more involved, and moms may not feel stressed or sad. Babies may cry less, sleep better, and breastfeed sooner.
Good for Baby’s Health
Cuddling can boost an infant’s oxygen levels, calm its breathing, and ease pain signals. And for an underweight baby, it raises survival chances by more than a third. It helps the brain grow and makes infection and other illnesses, like hypoglycemia or hypothermia, less likely.
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