Interoception: the hidden sense that shapes wellbeing

There’s growing evidence that signals sent from our internal organs to the brain play a major role in regulating emotions and fending off anxiety and depression. This article by David Robson, published by the Guardian, considers the relationship between interoception and wellbeing. Read more

2021-09-16T19:24:51+00:00September 5th, 2021|Articles|

Touch Deprivation Post-Covid

What are the ramifications of the lack of human contact as a result of the pandemic? There may be a tsunami of need for touch, with an increase in cases of depression by as much as three-fold, or even seven-fold according to one study. This article by Douglas Nelson, published in Massage Magazine, explores how [...]

2021-09-02T07:27:32+00:00September 2nd, 2021|Articles|

Touch: is this the sense we’ve missed most?

An article by Joe Moran, published in the Guardian, notes that we have become 'skin-hungry' through social distancing, and explores the crucial role touch plays in our wellbeing. You can read the full article here (first click Read More to activate the link).

2021-07-14T13:12:27+00:00July 14th, 2021|Articles|

The Power of Touch

When Jacques Lusseyran was eight, he was blinded in an accident. In Nazi-occupied France in 1941, aged 17, Lusseyran formed a resistance group with fifty two boys, using his heightened senses to recruit the best. Eventually he was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in a transport of two thousand resistance fighters. He [...]

2024-01-02T15:30:42+00:00June 11th, 2021|Articles|

The Social Value of Zero Balancing – David Laden

“When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am speaking of that Force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.” Martin Luther King, Jr.   INTRODUCTION [...]

2024-01-02T15:30:42+00:00May 10th, 2021|Articles|

The International Journal of Zero Balancing and Transformative Touch: A Welcome by Founder Dr. Fritz Smith

The dream of this Journal is exciting. Touch has tutored me since childhood. The Journal will provide a creative platform for a conversation and investigation of touch: its experiential transformational, therapeutic and life-essential nature on the one hand and its scientific, objective, documented effect on the other. This journal holds the promise of allowing the [...]

2024-01-02T15:30:43+00:00May 7th, 2021|Articles|

Quarterly updates

Foundation News & Projects - 20 March 2021 Our Name In order to differentiate the ZBTF from the ZBHA, the Board are encouraging everyone to refer to the ZB Touch Foundation in full rather than the abbreviated format, ZBTF. ZB Foundation Board The Board of Directors currently number 5: Amanda King & Jim McCormick from [...]

2024-01-02T15:30:43+00:00March 19th, 2021|Quarterly Update|

Announcing the ZBTF 2017 Research Partnership

We have long dreamed of setting up a research project to find out more about the beneficial effects of the skilled touch of Zero Balancing. So it is with considerable excitement that we can announce our participation in a scientifically based research study in collaboration with the respected Neuro Synchrony Institute in Austin, Texas. This will [...]

2024-01-02T15:30:43+00:00January 24th, 2017|Uncategorized|

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