| 'Hug', may be the simplest and cutest way to | | | | transform our foes into our friends only through |
| share love and affection. We embrace our friends, | | | | the strike of love and brotherhood by one simple |
| mates, family, colleagues, people we love and | | | | hug. |
| people around and thus express our attachment | | | | According to US today Reese Witherspoon won |
| with them. | | | | the award of the most huggable person of the |
| This global 'virtual' Hug for Peace celebrating World | | | | year 2006. Hugging attitudes reveal the contagious |
| Hug Day is our opportunity to show the world | | | | and sincere attributes as one special contributes |
| that 'peace begins with me'. Hugging has all the | | | | of one's character. Some clinical therapist say that |
| positive qualities and self esteem; such as | | | | a real good hug is a mild form of breathing |
| whenever you hug someone the expression of | | | | therapy. Hugging sometimes relaxes your pains |
| accepting him or her becomes quite precise and | | | | and claustrophobias after long shifts of your work |
| clear. Hugging also symbolizes that the hugger is | | | | schedule in the busiest days. here is a natural |
| an extremely emotional person and willing to | | | | breathing reflex that invites a very deep breath; |
| spread friendship and fellow feeling. | | | | deeper than you can take if you try and take a |
| On January 21st 1986 National Hugging Day was | | | | deep breath by yourself. The key to it is in |
| founded in the US. It was founded in 1986 by | | | | tricking the nervous system into letting the |
| reverend Kevin Zaborney. It has spread all over | | | | muscles of the rib cage go so that the lungs can |
| the world and is called by many names - Hug | | | | fill up easier and fuller. A hug is one of those type |
| Day, World Hug Day, Send a Hug Day, | | | | of "tricks." This stimulates a deeper |
| International Hug Day, and even Hug a Bear Day! | | | | parasympathetic nervous relaxation response and |
| Sometimes people just stops to exhale; due to | | | | you experience a sense of calm, ease or |
| the immense pressure of this money-oriented | | | | pleasurable excitement. |
| give and take based soulless life-style, people | | | | When a friend has already just finished exhaling, |
| often simply forget to cheer up and gear up both | | | | try "hugging" them around the mid to lower chest |
| mentally and physically. Sometimes one may just | | | | and gently squeezing a little air out of them. Let |
| feel isolated from all that is positive and jovial in | | | | go immediately but smoothly so they can take a |
| this world. There is no better medicine of these | | | | relaxed, effortless, deeper inhale. It's probably |
| kind of decay of brain and physic except than | | | | best to warn them a little before you try this, as |
| gifting or getting a lovely hug. It is one of the | | | | many are not used to such intensity of contact |
| blessed medicines which is devoid of any fattening | | | | and will spontaneously tighten up what are called |
| materials. It is a sweet dessert without any added | | | | the "accessory breathing muscles"; those that fire |
| sweeteners or chemical additives. | | | | inappropriately and reduce a deeper more |
| World Hug Week occurs every year during the | | | | refreshing, relaxing in-breath. |
| third week of July. The goal of this week is to | | | | Apart from these hypothetic details of hugging |
| encourage everyone to hug three people a day | | | | people simply love hugging loved ones because it |
| for seven days, and to ask those three people to | | | | is received by men as a sign that we are not |
| do the same. You can start today! Give the | | | | alone on this world. Mother embraces her child |
| people around you the touches they're craving. | | | | right after its birth in the world, so basically this is |
| Many people celebrate World's Hug Day to ensure | | | | the primary sign of the affectionate touch of life |
| the presence of that little kid inside who requires | | | | which a mother gifts her child and welcome to |
| love, care and pampering in spite of being a citizen | | | | this world thus. So we all should enjoy the hug |
| of this ultra modern computerized society. Its not | | | | day to realize our very existence upon this world. |
| only because of the sheer loneliness that we | | | | Those whom we cant hug at once we can send |
| experience sometimes but also to ensure our | | | | greeting cards, e cards and gifts to remember us. |
| humane urges of love and affection. Jesus, our | | | | Let's celebrate the hug a bear day this 21st and |
| beloved 'son of god' first taught us that we can | | | | make it a hugely successful one. |