Name: Coronavirus: Why we touch our faces and how to stop it - BBC
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T19:39:24.000Z
Duration: 2 min 21 s
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The imperative

touch your face and I haven't touched my face in weeks because we can't help it.

We know this because humans as young as fetuses in you two wrote, touch their faces every time you tell yourself, Stop touching your face.

If I touch my face, I'm gonna get really ill telling yourself to do something that is entirely on natural.

Two years when we touch our faces, what we're really doing is calming ourselves down when we touch certain areas of our faces, what we're really doing is activating sets and pressure points, which then activates something for the parasympathetic nervous system, which is the thing that makes us calm ourselves down.

Internally, we see the same response in dogs and cats, Children off a model, the same behavior as their parents.

So if our parents, when they're shocked, they touch their faces when they're surprised they touch their faces or if they're upset they touch their faces, we're much more likely to do exactly the same thing.

The irony is at a time when it's more important than average, not touch your face.

Unconsciously, your mind is constantly moving to a place where you can better protect you by doing the things that it knows will soothe you.

And so your unconscious mind will prompt your hands to go straight to your face.

Whilst it's almost impossible to totally stop touching your face a key way that you can go about making it easier for me to take out the habits.

So that might mean wearing glasses instead of contact lenses.

It might mean wearing less makeup so you don't have to chop it up throughout the day.

It might also mean creating habits around how you use your hands so, rather than perhaps when you're always moving around and having your hands like this and making it so easy for them to land on your face, making an effort to cross your hands and put them on your lap.

 Then, when the urge comes to take your hands up and touch your face, you'll be more aware of what you're doing and you'll be quick to catch yourself. 