Sentences with phrase «power of human touch»

While the study was a small one, taking only 22 heterosexual couples into account, it's a great reminder of the extraordinary power of human touch.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

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«The miracles of technology cause us to live in a hectic, clockwork world that does violence to human biology, enabling us to do nothing but pursue the future faster and faster... Specialization in verbiage, classification, and mechanized thinking has put man out of touch with many of the marvelous powers of «instinct» which govern his body.

Radiant Word, blazing Power, you who mould the manifold so as to breathe your life into it; I pray you, lay on us those your hands — powerful, considerate, omnipresent, those hands which do not (like our human hands) touch now here, now there, but which plunge into the depths and the totality, present and past, of things so as to reach us simultaneously through all that is most immense and most inward within us and around us.

I mean the burning passion of lived awareness that we occupy a precarious existence on this planet together with the soil and its flowers, the water and its fishes, the air and its birds, the fire and energy sources; that our fellow human beings are truly brothers and sisters with whom it is better always to make love - justice than war; and that gentleness lasts longer and touches more deeply than other kinds of power.

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«This paper illustrates the power and importance of human touch.»

Humour and the human touch of characterisation cut through origin - tale cliché to start, as three dudes at a rave explore a freaky underground hole that grants them telekinetic powers.

Oh, and the one - touch driver's power window would only go up three - quarters of the way before reversing itself — a second try would finally get it closed (this happened three separate times, at least partially eliminating human error).

- Historical Novels Review «The Plum Tree is a touching story of heroism and loss, a testament to the strength of the human spirit and the power of love to transcend the most unthinkable circumstances.

Author Val Silver and... Team Rescue contributors have compiled a spectrum of amusing, touching, rescued dog stories that demonstrate the power of the human - animal bond, the wondrous ability of animals to heal us... I heartily recommend Rescue Me.

There is little to no vet care, water licks as opposed to bowls, cage cleaning can consist of a power washer while the dog is still in the cage, and the minimal human touch is typically reserved for when dogs need to be moved in and out of cages for breeding and whelping.

As Ruskin wrote, «The utmost power of art can only be given in a material capable of receiving and retaining the influence of the subtlest touch of the human hand.

Gorovoy offers China an unprecedented chance to be touched by the reparative, human power of Bourgeois» art.

Inspired by a belief that artistic practices broaden the scope of human agency and have the power to both touch and change the world, Mendes Wood DM cultivates a program premised on conceptualism, political resistance and intellectual rigor.

«Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, A mechanized automaton.»

This session explores the sense of touch and how it has the power to calm and reconnect human beings.