{"id":6982,"date":"2015-10-05T06:02:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T10:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/?p=6982"},"modified":"2020-06-29T09:57:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T13:57:04","slug":"use-your-senses-to-help-with-pain-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/6982\/use-your-senses-to-help-with-pain-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Your Senses to Help with Pain: Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can\u00a0our\u00a0<em>senses<\/em> increase the positive in our lives?\u00a0Today is:\u00a0<b>Touch<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Using <em>touch\u00a0<\/em>to help ourselves feel better can be as simple as snuggling under a soft, warm blanket.\u00a0Another way that is so relaxing for me is petting our cat Sammy.\u00a0His soft fur is soothing, and seeing how much he enjoys rubs under his chin makes me smile. Research shows that specific kinds of touch can decrease stress hormones.\u00a0Massage, hugs and floating in warm water all do this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your assignment: Each day, notice 1 thing with your sense of touch which gives you joy.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can\u00a0our\u00a0senses increase the positive in our lives?\u00a0Today is:\u00a0Touch Using touch\u00a0to help ourselves feel better can be as simple as snuggling under a soft, warm blanket.\u00a0Another way that is so relaxing for me is petting our cat Sammy.\u00a0His soft fur is soothing, and seeing how much he enjoys rubs under his chin makes me smile. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6982"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8021,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982\/revisions\/8021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocopewithpain.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}