A heart to heart hug can have significant benefits on our health and happiness in the following ways:
真心拥抱对我们的健康幸福有很大的益处，主要表现在以下几个方面：
Enhances Relationships
增进友谊
A heart warming hug increases the feeling of safety, security, trust and belonging. These are the foundations of all healthy relationships. Research has shown that relationships in which hugging and touching are present tend to be stronger and longer lasting.
暖心的拥抱能增加彼此的安全感、信任感以及归属感。这也是所有健康关系的基础。研究表明有拥抱、有身体接触的感情会更持久。
Reduces Anxiety, Stress and Blood Pressure
较少焦虑，降低压力、血压
When we hug or kiss a loved one, our oxytocin levels rev up. This powerful hormone has the ability to alleviate social anxiety and produce feelings of trust. It also has the peripheral ability to reduce stress.
当我们拥抱、亲吻那个我们所爱之人的时候，荷尔蒙的分泌会增加。这种荷尔蒙能减缓社会焦虑感，产生一种信任感。还能降低压力。
Promotes Happiness
促进幸福
Serotonin is often called the ‘Happiness hormone’.
血清素通常被称为“快乐激素”。
Physical touch can increase serotonin levels. Serotonin helps regulate dopamine. Dopamine can lead to aggressive and sometimes violent behavior. Whereas, elevated serotonin levels create periods of happiness.
身体的接触会使血清素水平上升。血清素帮助调节多巴胺。多巴胺会引起好斗心，有时候还会引发暴力行为。但血清素会让人产生幸福感。
So everyone needs hugs and touching to maintain serotonin levels, so hug friends, loved ones and even your pet, often.
所以我们都需要拥抱、触碰来维持血清素水平，所以请经常拥抱你的朋友、你所爱的人、甚至是你的宠物。
Releases Tension
舒缓紧张感
When you are in a deep heart to heart hug with someone you love, it is very difficult not to relax. When you relax, you lessen the tension in your body.
当你用心拥抱你所爱之人的时候放松下来并不是难事。放松的时候身体上的紧张感就减轻了。
Restores Balance in the Nervous System
让神经系统恢复平静
A hug can restore the balance in our nervous system.
一个拥抱就能让我们的神经系统保持平衡。
Many people live in a constant state of high alert and high anxiety which puts the sympathetic nervous system on alert. When this happens the parasympathetic nervous system, which produces a calm and relaxed state is under active.
许多人生活在一种警觉性非常高或是神经时刻保持警觉的状态里。当他们处于平静或是放松状态时副交感神经系统就会特别活跃。
By stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system in a hug, we can restore balance. With the balance restored, we naturally slow down our pace of life and feel calmer.
拥抱时能刺激副交感神经系统 ，这样就能让我们的神经系统保持平衡，自然而然的我们就能平静下来，感受到平静。