If there is a gesture that makes us present is the embrace, if there is a gesture that can comfort us is that of someone around us with our arms and squeezes with the force we need, because hugs open the pores of the skin and allow us to be vulnerable in a protected space. An ecosystem where danger or risk is prohibited and where, therefore, we can get rid of our armor. That heavy?
Hugs allow hearts to synchronise, blood pressure drops and breathing slows down. There are those who can even see the sea when they close their eyes, as if this little refuge were a shell that echoes its own nature.
- The search for the nervous system.
- Using neuroimaging techniques such as functional MRI.
- Has found.
- For example.
- That hugs from little-known people activate the limbic system.
- A system directly related to emotions.
- To make this type of hug.
- In addition to reducing stress levels.
- Encourage the creation of bonds of trust with the person you are kissing and barely know.
“If you know someone like that, someone you can kiss and you can turn a blind eye to everything else, you can consider yourself very lucky. Even if it only lasts a minute or a day?” – Patrick Rothfuss-
Statistics say that we are talking more and more, but we are less and less, that we have more media but fewer opportunities to transcend the word, whether spoken or written, this leads us to be rude, even ashamed or has a reason to justify contact.
Remember that any skill that is not practiced, especially if it is social, loses its naturalness, is no different with hugs. What strength to apply, where to put your hands? I don’t want to disturb the other, so anguish is born and the embrace loses all its power, because we think, we don’t close our eyes and we just do it, we feel weird and strange naturally. Gesture.
On the other hand, it is possible to kiss the body, but it is also possible to give it a handshake, gently tighten the neck or, if we are on our side, put the arm behind the back of the other. hug their parents with their legs when they stop on their shoulders.
“You don’t think of me as I do. It doesn’t matter. But if you’re also cold, you can come closer and wrap your arms around me. Just a little. With a lump in my throat, I walked over, sat next to her and hugged her. What cute? “she says, more relaxed. It is as if until now it was always cold. – Patrick Rothfuss-
The power of the embrace is so great that it is worth a thousand tips, besides the hugs always bring the certainty of success because they break walls and create confidence, allow a rest. With hugs, symbolically, we free ourselves for a moment from the weight of our responsibility, then, when the arms open again, everything seems lighter.
It’s something that barely happens with advice. Many are not valid, others that we already know are the most appropriate solution, no one has to say that. What we lack is the strength to be able to implement these measures, we want a place to rest before we leave for the summit, while feeling that someone will take care of us and look for ways to help us. if we get lost or take too long to get home.
There are hugs that transmit strength, others that transmit peace, what they always convey is affection. A condition that, in turn, makes our inner skin stronger and more sensitive, the same one that we all scratch in an attack of rage, which we do not exclude from others or from any object, but from ourselves, causing us deep wounds. .
The day may come when technology encompasses people on the other side of the world, but this is not currently possible. That is why the relationship with the people around us is so important that they have great power that those who are far away do not have, and it is the power to embrace us.
“One day, while writing a letter, Otoko opened the dictionary to consult the ideogram “Think. “Looking at other meanings (I wish, not being able to forget, to be sad), he felt his heart shrink. Were you afraid to touch the dictionary? There was Oki. Countless words reminded him of this. To link everything you saw and hear with your love was to be alive. The consciousness of your own body was inseparable from the memory of that embrace. -Yasunari Kawabata-