Does Holding Hands with Someone Affect Your Brain Waves?
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2018
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
When you hold someone's hand, there is a surprising side effect in your brain waves. In this episode of The Brain Warrior's Way Podcast, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen describe this phenomenon, and how it can either help or hurt your emotional state of being.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aaman. |
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| 1:01.0 | Welcome back, everybody. We're so excited for this podcast. There's a new study and I |
| 1:09.5 | actually put it in my new book feel better fast and make it less that's coming out this November. |
| 1:16.4 | And it's a study from the University of Colorado at Boulder that showed that when romantic partners, that's us, most of the time, hold hands |
| 1:31.8 | with a partner in pain, their brain waves sink together and her or his pain subsides. |
| 1:45.0 | So I read that study and I'm like holding hands, |
| 1:49.0 | our brain waves will sink. |
| 1:51.0 | So you want to be very careful who you hold hands with because you're |
| 1:55.2 | going to get there to range brain into yours as sort of like channeling. |
| 2:01.1 | So you sink up. That's really cool. Well I'm going to tell you something that's that like totally changes my brain waves. I love it when you guys send in testimonials. These are so much fun. So I just want to read a couple really fast because they make my day. So. Thank you for doing that. |
| 2:14.4 | Send more. Send more. The fact that you guys take time to tell us how this is |
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