THERE’S A
DOCUMENTED PHENOMENON CALLED
“SENSORY DEFENSIVENESS.”
As well, all of these strategies can be used to gradually
increase your level of comfort with touch. Once you have
the strategies in place you can use them to slowly broaden
your range of positive touch parameters. It’s a process of
re-training your emotional and psychological response to
touch (and other sensory input) to make it an experience
that you automatically associate with nurture and more
positive emotions, but the good thing is that it can be done!
Have you ever experienced sensory defensiveness? Hopefully
these tools can help you and people you know to establish
greater comfort with an essential component of health.
Drew.