Dr. Rosanne Bostonian uses Reiki to help clients achieve balanced physical, emotional, and spiritual energy. The document discusses how touch is beneficial for development and health across one's lifespan, as it can lower stress, boost immune function, increase cooperation, and strengthen social bonds by stimulating oxytocin release. Research led by Dr. Tiffany Field found that even brief periods of touch daily can support growth in children and improve mental, physical, and emotional well-being in adults.

1. By Rosanne Bostonian

2. Introduction
 Dr. Rosanne Bostonian, a healer throughout her career, became
certified as a Reiki master teacher in 2014. Rosanne “Roseanne”
Bostonian now uses her Reiki skills to help clients achieve
balanced physical, emotional, and spiritual energy.
Touch is one of the first ways that we experience comfort. Babies
need touch for optimal development, as many studies performed
on touch-deprived infants have confirmed. However, recent
research shows that its benefit does not go away as we grow
through childhood into adulthood.
Dr. Tiffany Field, lead of the University of Miami's Touch
Research Institute, found that as little as 15 minutes of touch per
day supports growth in children as well as mental, emotional,
and physical improvements in adults.

3. Healing Power of Touch
 Touch can lower heart rate and blood pressure, reduce
levels of the stress hormone cortisol, and increase
levels of hormones associated with positive emotions.
It can even increase a person's ability to fight common
viruses, as researchers proved when they compared the
likelihood of infrequently hugged and frequently
hugged individuals to develop cold symptoms after
viral exposure.
Additionally, studies have found that the experience of
being touched by someone can increase a person's
likelihood to cooperate with that person's requests.

4. Conclusion
 This holds true regardless of whether the memory of
touch is present in the recipient. Touch serves to
strengthen bonds between people and increase
feelings of closeness, as it stimulates the release of the
attachment hormone oxytocin. Finally, it
communicates a sense of a supportive social network,
which has emerged as one of the most accurate
predictors of emotional and physical health.