Who knows how to hug?

Weird question? It won't be, in a second - just read on :-)...

I was watching a movie last night and noticed, yet again, that when people hug they almost always gravitate to their left, towards the right shoulder of the person they're wanting to hug, and decided to make that today's topic. What's the big deal, you're probably wondering? What difference does the side make to hugging? Isn't a hug just a hug? Wrong. It isn't.

I too didn't know any different, for the longest time. But a few years ago, I had gone to see my Psychosynthesis teacher and when it was time to leave, I stepped up to hug her, in the same manner as already described above and she stopped me. She said, that at a spiritual gathering she heard a Native American Elder say that white people didn't know how to hug. He said, everyone hugs on the wrong side, the opposite side of how it is actually supposed to be done.

Well, I'm not white, but I too, didn't know how to hug. Soon after this discovery I went to India and found the same thing happening there. By now I'd become the self-appointed hug-expert, always observing how people hugged. I found that whether white, brown, yellow or black - for some reason people automatically hugged 'wrong'. And the right way to hug - what is it? My teacher said that the Native American Elder had told this gathering that the right way to hug was to move towards the left shoulder ofthe person you were going to hug. In this way the hearts of the two people come together, one on one, and such a hug was suffused with heart energy, making the hug truly meaningful. And after her explanation, when I hugged my teacher to say goodbye I could feel the difference. There was a sense of closeness, a heart-to-heart that I hadn't felt before.

Experiment for yourself. Hug someone one way, and then the second - and you'll feel the difference. You'll understand what the whole fuss was about - making 2008 the year when you learnt to hug 'right'.

Once again, all the very best the whole year round,

Kiki ;-)
P.S. My request to those who 'borrow' from this blog is to please give adequate credit to the source of the borrowed information - whether me, or books and people I quote from. Thank you.