”To stay alive, we need four hugs a day. For our health, we need eight hugs a day. To support our growth, stay young and happy, we need twelve hugs a day”, said Virginia Satir, a family therapist.

What do you think when heard this statement? Maybe you feel a little bit amazed. Why do hugs have a huge power that can make someone be healthier, have a longer life and stay young? When did the latest time you hug some one or when was the latest time you being hugged by some one? If the answer is ‘it has been a long time’ and you can not remember the time exactly, try to remember what do you feel recently? Do you get ill easily? Feel depressed, stress? Being more sensitive? Often get headache?

There are a lot of researches indicating that hugs therapy can heal a lot of physics and mental illness. It can reduce stress, depression and so on. A person that is hugging or being hugged can feel the power of love around him. This power can increase our immune system. This therapy can increase our body balance, our health and also reduce stress especially for businessman working in modern city.
 

A Peaceful Hug
When hugging, our body releases oxytocin, a hormone influencing some one to feel peaceful and love. This hormone can make our body be healthier and make us think more positively. Oxytocin just can be produced if a person has a healthy and peaceful life.

A real meaning of hug is touching each other along that can tie and touch them. Not only that, but also they can feel comfortable and peaceful.

You can hug every one with full of love and peacefulness, not just with your mate or with the beloved one. The meaning of hug is in the positive way, excluded the strong desire. This hug also doesn’t same with a social hug-given in a party or in the first meeting in few countries.

Not only in Indonesia, but also in other country, persons usually hug their mate, their family or their parents. In America, there is an organization that promotes a program named Free Hug. The participants of that organization will hang on a board in their chest written Free Hug. They are the volunteers giving a hug therapy to everyone that is needed.

Kids will grow healthier
“But we must remember one thing, that even just a shake hand or touching cheek to cheek, it still gives a benefit. There is warmth when it happens. But of course there are more benefit if. If we hug each other more firmly”, said Dr. Bhagar, a holder of doctorate researching about the influence of hug in India.

If people can understand the benefit of hug, they will do it more intensely. Husband and wife will hug and touch each other more often and it will be done to their children too.

All part of our body has a sense of touch. That is made our body from head to foot be a sensitive organ if it is touched. Even when a baby in the uterus and be protected, he can feel a lovely touching from his parents. The more touching that he get, the healthier he is and the better development he gets. Later, mentally, this baby will become a loving person.

If children are often being touched and hugged by their parents, they will grow healthier. They will feel more comfortable and be more confidence. Parents will get benefits too, especially when they feel depressed, lonely and stress. They will feel that there are other person that care, love and need them.

All part of our body is sensitive with a hug and really need a warm and firm hug.

The Transformation of comfort
A master of reiki in Mumbai,India said that a hug was a instrument of transformation. By doing a hug, a person will be more closely each other. If your relationship with other is getting loose, hug can make it tighter.

If your marriage is nearly broken, just try to hug your mate 20 times a day. It will diminish the possibility of being divorce and will reduce stress and depression too.

Dr. Harold Voth, a senior psychiatrist in Kansas, USA, has done a research with hundreds person. The result is the participants that do hug more often can reduce their depression, increase their autoimmune, sleep well, and stay healthy.

If your baby becomes troublesome or sick, don’t leave them alone. Give them a warmth hug. It can make them be more comfortable and can heal them more quickly.

Remember that a hug is an effective medicine to a physic and mental illness.

There are a lot of acute illness that can make some one got it be more frustrated, easily get angry and feel that their illness will not be cured. By getting a hug, they will feel more comfortable. Hug can transfer a positive energy that can change a negative feeling to b positive feeling. Besides if the hug is given by the beloved one. Love is a very strong power, right? And hug becomes one tool to express love to another.