Touch Wood

“TOUCH WOOD” simple combination of words which can be heard in every day life. Does it really works?? I am not sure but it tells your mind “All is well” and after the rituals of touch wood one can resume his/her work in peace. Its not important to know whether it really works or not but it calms you down and make you feel that whatever you said will not affect your daily life.People say things in excitement and then they realize that they should have not have said those things and here comes the golden words to assure you everything will be fine. India is a land of superstitious things and Touch wood adds to it. Though i may be wrong referring it to as superstitious but its behaviour is similar to it. We don’t have any proper data which can explain its existence in human mind but as i said it calms us down and there is nothing bad in saying such words, at the end of the day it is stabilizing your mind.