It's contagious and a wonder drug.  It defuses anger and frustration.  It is used for chronic pain and diabetes.  It is a very intense way to communicate with someone. It improves your self-worth.

It's a HUG!

Your skin needs reassurance.  It has been used as a therapeutic tool, because it takes us back to our earliest experiences in life.   We don't touch enough in our lives.  We are taught not to touch. But our skin hungers for touch.  It makes us feel good. Here is where quality and quantity count. When you hug, you give permission to hug.  Listen to your body, trust it, it is wise.  Tell the person you need a hug.  Ask for one.  When we hug,  we share a commonness. You can hug anywhere you are comfortable.
 
Here is good advice: 4 hugs a day for survival, 8 hugs a day to maintain balance, 12 hugs a day to grow.      Be generous with your hugs.

  5 ​Random New Thoughts - Part 2
Another way to have new thoughts is to just look for new ideas to replace old ones. Then you expand on the new idea, to see what value you might find in it. Here are some examples of new thoughts, without expanding on them (help yourself).
1.  Why do we encourage uniformed people to vote? Maybe it’s better to encourage people NOT to vote, unless they are willing to educate themselves on the issues.
2.  Is multi-tasking really a sign of efficiency? Maybe the fact that we need to be so busy just to get what we want shows that our actions aren’t effective enough.
3.  Why can’t we pay less for a surgeon who kills more people on the operating table? Why not recognize that there are better and worse doctors, have that information available, and pay accordingly?
4. How about wonder instead of faith? Faith is just believing without reason. Wonder is to marvel at the world and accept that we don’t have reasons or explanations for everything.
5. Finally, what if our level of creativity, and ability to have new thoughts isn’t just something that is set at birth. What if it is a systematic process, one that may not be recognized by those who use it, but can be identified and copied? All of us can train ourselves to have creative new thoughts.

 1. Desire and attachment can be strong feelings, and they are often called love in certain contexts. However, attachment can be for bad reasons too, right? Desire too can come from less than noble places. What is an alternative definition of love?
 2. How about a recognition of value? Seeing the inherent value in a person, like the beauty you see in a painting or hear in a melody. You do not need to be attached or even desirous of beauty to enjoy it. You just have to recognize it. The enjoyment that you take in another’s existence then could be a definition of love. At least the emotion.
  3. Love is more than an emotion though. How much love does a mother have for her children if she feels fond towards them, but doesn’t feed them? Love in this context has to include action, doesn’t it?
 4. This points up the real problem with defining concepts like love. There are seven or eight or perhaps a hundred things we want to communicate. They are each different, yet we have just one word for them. Maybe rather than re-defining love we need to create a dozen new words. Now there’s an area for some new thoughts.
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