Tickling to relieve stress?

[ticklesfeetintx]

I was wondering if anyone has ever gotten someone to tickle their feet just to relieve stress. I've had a couple of experiences where I was pretty stressed or upset about something, a friend of mine tickled my feet for a while, and I felt better. Just curious if anyone else has done this?

 

[TicklingDuo]

Sure! Tickling is a great stress reliever! It's also lots of fun! 😀

Ann

 

[ericr]

Tickling to relieve stress

Although I have never intentionally been tickled to relieve stress, I agree that it is a great way to releive stress. I have always been extremeley relaxed after being tickled for a few minutes or longer. There is a web site called www.thelaugher.com in which there is a section devoted to tickling and stress. "The Laugher",The owner of the site, strongly advocates tickling as a stress reliever and even cites some empirical evidence to back up his point of view.

 

[hiram]

Tickling and Stress

I've never seen any studies on this, although, this is one of those subjects that seems almost a common sense to me. I have only a few examples in my own life. For the last couple of months we have been going through a period of stress in our lives as serious as we have experienced since we were married. It built and built until it hit its peak just a week or so ago.

A few days before that I was sitting on the edge of my bed watching some goofy thing on TV. It was about 11:00 AM. My wife came and sat next to me on the bed. She fell over backwards and stretched her arms over her head. On a whim I put a hand up under her shirt and tickled her belly button for just a second or two. She giggled and flinched but did nothing to tell me to stop.

I stood up and picked her feet up and put them againdst my chest. She made her legs rigid, and I pushed her higher on the bed. She actually giggled a little more. I went up on the bed and pulled her shirt over her head but not completely off, so it was inside out and her arms were still inside it. This let me kneel on the shirt so as to lock her arms in position. I think she sensed the need for this because she never resisted any of this for a second. The tickling was then long and deliberate and merciless.

I'm here to tell you that she spent the next 4 or 5 hours with a look of complete relaxation and contentment. There was no stress in this house for that period. This was a case when tickling relieved stress very much better that ANYTHING else we could possibly have done. Since it was one of those rare times when she fought against it not at all before hand, in fact she invited it without saying so; there is no doubt it was something she both wanted and realized she needed.

So did I. I'd recommend this as a stress relief far better than any pill you can take.

 

[Neutron]

I've Relieved Stress...

While tickling quite a few times. It was rather messy though.


Tron

 

[BigJim]

Laughing helplessly does dump a shed-load of endorphins into the bloodstream and they act as a natural agent against a build up of unused adrenaline, caused by stress. It can only be good for the health. 😀

By the way Tron, I hope you didn't mean what I think you meant.

 

[Neutron]

LOL..

Yes I did.

Tron

 

[HeBeGeeBee]

Many a stressful day has culminated in such activities in our house...

 

[BigJim]

It's nice to know y'all are as depraved as I am.😀

 

[P50]

I volunteer to participate in a university study.

It should be a double bind study to be scientifically valid.