Stress & Anxiety

Working with your hands – hands-on activities like drawing, gardening, cooking, baking, knitting and felting – sends calming signals to your nervous system, reducing the body’s stress response to bring on a sense of peace. please read

Holding hands helps too – because the pressure of touch send signals to the vagus nerve, which conducts signals to the hypothalamus, which in turn lowers the heart rate and blood pressure and contributes to the neurological management of stress.