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Amma, Gunshot Glitter, Honey Monster, Hug a Tree, Hugs, Lydia Nicolaides, Reiki Healing, Vicky Crump, Yasmin Selena Butt
Hello you,
I saw this on my Facebook this morning, from the wonderful Lydia Nicolaides who is a very talented musician, singer-songwriter (Rosered The Butterflies) and web-designer, social media butterfly and all round good Scorpio Pixie with a big heart which belies her tiny size.
So do I
It was a cartoon that she shared. And it was kind of timely, as I’ve been thinking about hugs a lot lately. I’m a huge believer in the power of hugs. They have the power to transcend us when words just won’t do, they’re medicinal when you are ill, healing when you need strength and a very under-rated form of foreplay when you are itching to feel close to someone special and just don’t know where to start. (Though, read the situation carefully with the latter!!)
And sometimes, it’s just a loving, generous act to a single soul or the Universe or in the case of my friend, Pete, to a tree : ) It’s true, he does it and I’ve done it, because he’s done it and I wanted to see what it was like. It was oddly grounding for the record! He’s right.
Does it make him a bit of a hippy? Yep, but he’s silver fox, that looks more like a cool, surfer dude than a lentil-chomping, Jesus-haired man in sandals. And he’s got magic hands. It’s what you wear on the inside. There’s a lot to be said for ‘spreading the love.’
Pete gives amazing hugs, so do my friends James, Steve and Tamara. And Vicky Crump who is a Reiki healer, who helped me through a really tough time recently. In fact, Vicky is so cool she offers Reiki for free via distance healing to everyone. Weird but true fact, I feel it in the fillings of my teeth.
What makes a hug special ? For me, it’s really going for it, putting your heart and soul into it and imbuing it with love, just pure love and generosity of soul, no ulterior motive.
You’re filled with potential all the time to transform everything and anything, in you and around you. Often the only thing that stops you is fear or doubt or worry it won’t happen or work out. Trust me I wake up with that a lot sometimes, especially with my novel, Gunshot Glitter. The closer I get to D-Day the more scared I am. And so the more I need hugs. Lots of them.
I find hugs reassuring. I once thought how nice it would be to have a giant teddy bear whose lap you could sit in, and whose arms would just cuddle you for as long as you wanted. How nice would that be? I’d settle for the Honey Monster at a push
So give it up for hugs. Hugs are **amazing**. You are amazing or you could be amazing if you dare try and find out.
Make someone feel better today, give out some love, cheer someone up, start healing a situation if you’ve been a twat, offer up your arms.
Give someone a hug
And really mean it! Really go for it. None of that namby-pamby-stiff-upper-lip half a hug crap.
Have a wonderful weekend and this is my hug to you for reading my blog.
*Hugs*
Yasmin Selena Butt x xx
p.s. Wow, I had no idea I had so much to say about this! And I leave you with this news story about a very special lady. But the beautiful thing is, it’s what Amma does that makes her special. Kind of gives the rest of us hope, doesn’t it?
p.s. I lied about the title of this blog didn’t it I ? Oops..x
I love hugs! I’m a regular hugger. I hug all of my friends and family as a matter of course when we meet. People kind of know that about me now. Except when I go back to Germany, things are different there. Even my oldest friends stand petrified and/or recoil in horror when I offer a hug. Must be a cultural thing!
There’s nothing quite like a hug to set the world and your mood to rights. I love the cartoon and the entire blogpost. Thanks, Yasmin, I feel virtually hugged right now, and here’s one for you: (((hug))) X
Me too! Though oddly in our family, the hugs didn’t really start until I left home for Uni from my folks and that was mainly from my mum. I’m a tactile soul but I wouldn’t say I’m from a tactile family. I didn’t know Germans weren’t up for a cuddle, what a shame.
That’s cool you felt an affinity with the blog post, I totally think hugs can break down walls and barriers when stuff’s gone awry, if people just try and then it kind of diffuses things so the talking can start. xx
Exactly, well said.
x
Ah, this blog post is so well timed, Yasmin. I too believe that a big bear hug makes all the difference; soothes whatever angst or hurt you’re feeling. I’d hate living in a world without hugs. Here’s a great big one wingin’ its way to you now
And one for Nicky too x x
Glad my timing was apt. A world without hugs would be horrible. If I was Queen, I’d make it law that people were allocated hugs all year round and got extra ones for their outstanding achievements : ) xx p.s. Thanks for my hug. x
Keep Spreading the Love, the world seems a better place when we do so
x
It does, doesn’t it? : ) Thank you for all the great ones you’ve given me, especially when you popped over last Xmas spontaneously when I was in real, sore need of one. I’ll see you soon Mr Pete. xx