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Carla's Melting Hugs
Posted on May 13th, 2009
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When you hug someone, do you melt? Or do you just do a quick arbitrary almost-mindless hug before moving on to exchange pleasantries or other conversation?
Carla has had me thinking lots about melting hugs lately. 'Way back in June she posted this lovely blog about melting hugs. And lately there's been conversations about them once again. When I first read her words back in June, I didn't really get it. But for some reason it all sunk into the cells this time around. And I don't think it will be possible to ever hug the same way again.
How often do we become truly present to our hugging? (If we even become truly present enough in the first place to realize it's time for a hug!) To slowly feel the essence of the person whom we're embracing or being embraced. To truly surrender to the hug. To be fully feeling all the edges of it, the silvery beauty of it, the heart-fluttering way our heart expands and expands and expands and expands.
I know I often cut it short because it's so intimate to hug a person at that level. And, you know, they may get the wrong idea, the Mind says. Fear kinda nips its little bud at us saying "stay separate, stay apart, don't you dare merge into my space that much." It can be a merging, a melting, a Oneness kind of thing. And how many of us are ready to be that vulnerable to hug so completely? Sometimes, in some situations, I've hugged to that level. But what about dedicating more effort to being mindful when hugging ... and then let's see where it brings us. Maybe to the heart of more personal interaction?
So the other night in meditation (you know when you're suppose to be watching your thoughts instead of following them where they may lead) I had a thought...what about giving a person who's hurting a spiritual melting hug? So I closed my eyes and felt a friend's presence and then just melted into her. Wow! Incredible. It feels like your heart is shimmering inside her heart and spirit. Just sitting there feeling love inside the image of that person takes away the false sense of boundaries and you're there, present, One with one another. It feels like you truly have merged. It felt totally as real as a "real" hug, maybe even more so.
Then another thought surfaced. What about giving ourselves melting hugs? So I turned awareness toward myself...and especially an area of the body that was hurting...and then just melted into a hug that went on and on and on. Tears came. A feeling of incredible love flowed through. The hurting part loosened its hurting grip and release. It was...almost orgasmic. It was like flowing in this feeling of love that moved and moved and moved like a river throughout the body. And the hug went on until a thousand years of glaciers had melted into a puddle in my heart.
I had to share this with you guys. Do try it! There's enough people hurting around and perhaps we can't hug them all in real life to the point we've melted together. So how 'bout trying it on a spiritual level? But don't forget...hug yourself, too. And have the kleenex nearby just in case all that love triggers some tears.
Blessings, all!
Carla has had me thinking lots about melting hugs lately. 'Way back in June she posted this lovely blog about melting hugs. And lately there's been conversations about them once again. When I first read her words back in June, I didn't really get it. But for some reason it all sunk into the cells this time around. And I don't think it will be possible to ever hug the same way again.
How often do we become truly present to our hugging? (If we even become truly present enough in the first place to realize it's time for a hug!) To slowly feel the essence of the person whom we're embracing or being embraced. To truly surrender to the hug. To be fully feeling all the edges of it, the silvery beauty of it, the heart-fluttering way our heart expands and expands and expands and expands.
I know I often cut it short because it's so intimate to hug a person at that level. And, you know, they may get the wrong idea, the Mind says. Fear kinda nips its little bud at us saying "stay separate, stay apart, don't you dare merge into my space that much." It can be a merging, a melting, a Oneness kind of thing. And how many of us are ready to be that vulnerable to hug so completely? Sometimes, in some situations, I've hugged to that level. But what about dedicating more effort to being mindful when hugging ... and then let's see where it brings us. Maybe to the heart of more personal interaction?
So the other night in meditation (you know when you're suppose to be watching your thoughts instead of following them where they may lead) I had a thought...what about giving a person who's hurting a spiritual melting hug? So I closed my eyes and felt a friend's presence and then just melted into her. Wow! Incredible. It feels like your heart is shimmering inside her heart and spirit. Just sitting there feeling love inside the image of that person takes away the false sense of boundaries and you're there, present, One with one another. It feels like you truly have merged. It felt totally as real as a "real" hug, maybe even more so.
Then another thought surfaced. What about giving ourselves melting hugs? So I turned awareness toward myself...and especially an area of the body that was hurting...and then just melted into a hug that went on and on and on. Tears came. A feeling of incredible love flowed through. The hurting part loosened its hurting grip and release. It was...almost orgasmic. It was like flowing in this feeling of love that moved and moved and moved like a river throughout the body. And the hug went on until a thousand years of glaciers had melted into a puddle in my heart.
I had to share this with you guys. Do try it! There's enough people hurting around and perhaps we can't hug them all in real life to the point we've melted together. So how 'bout trying it on a spiritual level? But don't forget...hug yourself, too. And have the kleenex nearby just in case all that love triggers some tears.
Blessings, all!
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just playing with the melting hugs in meditation again and it seems that it works well to “hug” following the breath. On the outbreath especially melt into the love/emotion of it. Then you can feel it down to your tippy-toes. :)
I like to meld into being
Kathy, I don't think it's Carla's melting hugs, you can't trademark a hug can you? It would have to be a GMH hug, and I am not into that. Besides you have taken the hug to a dimension that only you can. I am going to really try it this time.
I can already feel the intimacy of a spiritual melting hug. It scares me already. I wrote that post cause I needed the medicine of that intimacy, not cause I am a master of it. You dared to do it, I will too, I'll see what happens.
O Kathy, I am touched so deeply by the poetic, moving way you have expressed in words that which only our hearts can know (& our body can pracitce :-D ) It's about ALLLOWING the intimacy of merging, melting, uniting into what is always there, behind mind's maya of seperation & your description of how a heart feels when it ALLOWS itself to open, that you have captured so perfectly here is captivating–I am so inspired & plan to pass this on to many of my friends & clients if I may !
This is a true “Hugging Manifesto” & should be required learning here in the School of Life ! We must always nurture in our imagination the clear vision about how our world is constantly healing when multitudes of hearts & souls can sit still & FEEL their hearts “shimmering inside the hearts & spirtis ” of others with no seperation… this is how our world is being transformed & you offer the key to it all to share with us here today that we should never more want for lack of such intimacy! It is always with us to radiate out thru our hearts in imaging melting hugs to the World & by giving we recieve… within the endless cycle of our breath ! (definately right down to our tippy-toes :-D )
Also Hugging Diva Carla today for getting this ball rolling –I am so thankful that we have the opportunity to all meet here in mutual inspiration & ONELOVE !
grabbling for the kleenex….
Tom, I can feel you melding into being now…
Carla, really? You're not the Diva of Melting Hugs? We can't trademark you? …laughing…but I thought you were the expert and I just wanted to learn to hug like YOU. (so much for the mind thinking again…) Nonetheless, if it wasn't for you opening this up, the rest of us would never be learning or exploring how to be Present with Hugs to this degree of intimacy and melting. Even if it's scary at first. Thank you SO much, dear one.
Victoria, maybe it's you that might be the Diva of Melting Hugs? big smile…your heart is so big we could melt into it really easy. I like your idea of a Hugging Manifesto!! Just think if we could all open up to that ONELOVE on such a simple level. What if we allowed ourselves to melt like that in so many more interactions? think of how the world would sing! :)
Hi, Kathy.
A melting hug is absolutely exquisite! I do not give enough nor get enough, and what you wrote is a great reminder. What did the Beatles sing? The hugs you take are equal to the hugs you make… or something like that… ; )
My youngest son, Michael, gives the most wonderful hugs with his entire being - all 3 1/2 feet of him - and I just melt into it. Sometimes, Michael just gives a quick hug like his brothers, and I have to ask him for the good kind. He always obliges me with a melting hug and sometimes even throws in a kiss. :)
I will have to try the melting hug in meditation - it sounds so wonderful!
Michael, maybe perhaps kids are our teachers in this area? Some of them have not yet learned to be self-conscious, they're still so close to the essence and not shut off? You're lucky that Michael knows how to give melting hugs. (hmmm, interesting play on words, which Michael?) Yes, do try them in meditation. I found them exquisite there; will probably be a bit more self-conscious hugging in actual physical form. Or maybe not! Blessings…
Kathy,
Holding you in a melting hugs! Thank you so much for sharing this, I have never thought of going into meditation and seeking and offering hugs, to others or myself. healing yes, hugs not…
I learned “melting” Hugs from the men at Easton and my work with Body Electric… I believe they have another name for them, but to stand in someone else space, wrapped in each others arms, body to body, breath to breath, almost holding each other up…. no talking, the lest amount of thoughts, just Melting into the moment and the being… being to being, spirit to spirit, heart to heart…. Wow what a moment!
Allowing our selves to move into that place while in Meditation would and could be very healing, as well as rewarding…
I am Love, Jeff
this is truly awesome, Kathy. i am looking forward to learning true melting hugs!
Hi Jeff…oh that is so cool that you've actually done “melting hugs” with real live people in groups. I am imagining that was an incredible experience. So intimate and taking you into that place of love.
Nicole, oh you must try it. It can be so…well there's barely any words for it. Just feelings of love.
You know, this morning after meditation I decided to turn to someone and give them a melting hug (someone who is really hurting) but he held his hand up to stop me. For some reason or another, his spirit didn't want to go there. So maybe it's a good thing perhaps to ask the other person's spirit if they want a melting hug. To ask permission. This fellow said no, but then suddenly reached for my hand to hold. So we sat there holding hands for the rest of the meditation. And I tried to surrender into the hand-holding as being just as opening as the hug.
Kathy, perhaps you can offer the hug to that person at a different
time. Sometimes in meditation or the rawness of ceremony, we are both
too open and inward to connect with another person that way. Physical
hugs can be grounding, and if a person is traveling deep in Spirit,
it's a disconsonance.
In addition to Body Electric, the Human Awareness Institute (HAI) has exercises pointing in this direction. Check out hai.org for more information.
Carla, I think you are right. Thank you for pointing that out. Wise to remember that…
Paul, glad to hear that other groups are moving in this direction. I actually taught the melting hug technique this morning (just modified a bit) to help a friend diagnosed with cancer.
who would have thought we could hug ourselves daily in this way? :)
Kathy,
I saw this the other day but lacked time to read. Then Carla reminded me of it on Satya-Seer's profile page and finally here I am. I think that when I hug it is geniune and authentic but I realize now having contemplated it, that I pull back short of melting. My family was not the hugging types.
Your example of hugging someone that is hurting will be put to use by me. I have a “difficult” situation and pain / anger / resentment are fueling toxic reactions. I was going to do Radical Forgiveness - yet again - on the situation. While I'm in that, I'll not only hold hands “in mind” but I will give out those melting hugs. Perhaps, this is the breakthrough energy to effect the healing we seek.
Recently, I discovered the self love / intense emotion while meditating and doing some Life Visioning work. I speak a bit about that on a blog by Cheyenne / Attainment that was about being vulnerable in love. It was an amazing experience, just as yours was.
Hugs - you are so brilliant. Don't ever stop writing your thoughts to share with us.
Deb
Well, I'm here to say that Carla is perpetuating fraud … yep. When I met her in Atlanta and then again in Maine, we greeted each other with these melting hugs. It was intimate, soft and full. Sorry Carla if I got my butter mixed in with your butter.
I am feeling these melting hugs presently as I'm experience some great challenges, and also practicing these hugs on my beloved and people in his situation. “If you touch them with love, they will change to loving touchers.” (me)
Kathy, to me, your blogs are melting hugs. I melt with love right into them. They embody melting love qualities.
Deborah, our family wasn't the hugging type either (until my brother started hugging when he came home from college, and then everybody began to try it. But they're still pretty brief quickie kind of hugs). I'm wondering if perhaps we begin to hug spiritually…both ourselves and others…that will translate to the physical realm and it will become easier to be more present with our hugging. To be totally aware and Present. To allow a bit more intimacy with everyone we meet.
My friend Jan is one of the world's best huggers. She hugs with no self-consciousness and you feel her love embracing you everywhere. In fact, if for some reason, we can't hug you feel like the day is not complete. For some reason we didn't hug yesterday. Darn! That would have been the perfect opportunity to try the melting hug. And report back how it went.
John, I KNEW Carla was perpetuating fraud! YES! She can still be our hug-diva, right? Phew, I'm glad someone who has met and been hugged by her knows the truth. I am glad you are feeling some of the melting hugs directed your way at this difficult time… And Jeff probably is sensing all this love melting into him from so many different directions.
Thank you for saying that about the blogs. Hey, maybe it's not just melting hugs! Maybe everything can be melting… Melting blogs, melting kisses, melting handshakes, melting meditations… What a thought! Blessings to you, dear John. You are close in my heart.
John cracks me up. Your butter started it. He's correct about your blogs Kathy. I am going to read your post again, just to get some!
We gotta keep on huggin'. We have to! No matter whose butter started it. (Butter started it? ohhh….melting….tee hee….)
aaaaahhhh, melting hugs… are the best!
one of my energy class teachers actually spoke of them… and that you should also go to the right, so that it is heart to heart… (I had not thought that before!) and also pointed out that you should not 'pat'… like the sports guy thing… (what I call it anyway… “good job” pat pat… ) as it means there is some discomfort… hmmmmm, something else to ponder now huh?
oddly enough … after I had heard that, I became much more aware of how people do hug… many folks are not comfortable doing melting hugs…
but I never knew there was anything besides melting hugs!!! I mean, if you're gonna hug… then HUG cuz you mean it…
like the kind for your best friend that you haven't seen in years… even if it was yesterday.
maybe this is called 'holding'… and I cant speak for anyone else, but being held is sheer delight.
just wish we could all do it more often, hold each other…
I also tend to rock back and forth when I do melting hugs with myself… or when I held my small daughter in my arms… but she doesn't like that often anymore… I sure miss those wonderful mom hugs too! melt melt melt…
I also miss the twirling around with feet off the ground hugs…
thank you wonderful Kathy and Carla and the rest of you… for these snuggly reminders of butter melting hugs! the best place to be in the world! :) ♥
So happy to observe that there seems to be no end in sight to this fluffy, fuzzy, oozing Melting Hugs Forum now spreading among various social networking sites–whoever's butter may have started it ! All these wonderful posts have reminded me of a somewhat formal but wise & endearing melting hug “training” that is given by zen master Thich Nhat Hanh & practiced daily at Plum Village (the only “proper” way for a woman to hug a monk :-D ). Since my experiences there, all of my personal variations of melting Hugging Meditations are still always entered by consciously breathing (3X –the “official” length of a melting hug ? LOL ) while celebrating the gift of being here now on this earth–together– & the magical moment of intimately SHARING present moment awareness, joyfully acknowledging the presense of another as ONE …
Hugging Meditation
We may practice hugging meditation with a friend, our daughter, our father, our partner or even with a tree. To practice, we first bow and recognize the presence of each other. Then we can enjoy three deep conscious breaths to bring ourselves fully there. We then may open your arms and begin hugging. Holding each other for three in-and-out breaths. With the first breath, we are aware that we are present in this very moment and we are happy. With the second breath, we are aware that the other is present in this moment and we are happy as well. With the third breath, we are aware that we are here together, right now on this earth, and we feel deep gratitude and happiness for our togetherness. We then may release the other person and bow to each other to show our thanks.When we hug, our hearts connect and we know that we are not separate beings. Hugging with mindfulness and concentration can bring reconciliation, healing, understanding, and much happiness. The practice of mindful hugging has helped so many to reconcile with each other- fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, friends and friends, and so many others.
When we hug in such a way, the other person becomes real and alive. We do not need to wait until one of us is ready to depart for a trip, we may hug right now and receive the warmth and stability of our friend in the present moment. Hugging can be a deep practice of reconciliation. During the silent hugging, the message can come out very clear: “Darling, you are precious to me. I am sorry I have not been mindful and considerate. I have made mistakes. Allow me to begin anew. I Promise.” –Thich Nhat Hanh, Plum Village, France
to mindful melting meditative hugs! very interesting … ♥ thanks! :)
Margo, how lovely that you've been doing melting hugs all your life! To not know there was any other way to hug….awesome! You sound like my friend Jan, hugger extraordinaire. (and now it sounds like we can add Carla, and Victoria, and many others to this list…) I liked the thought that you hug someone like they're the best friend you haven't seen in years. Even if you saw them yesterday. Or just “holding”. Simple. Beautiful. Holding with love and consciousness and closeness. Thank you, Margo. I think it's time to surprise Barry with a melting hug when he wakes up. :)
Victoria, Carla started it! It was her butter! There's actually a melting hug training going on at Plum Village? I love what Thich has to say about it. To consciously hug for at least three breaths. In some way, if there's any awkwardness about hugging, his instruction can make it so real and beautiful and intense. I'll bet this really blows people wide open at Plum Village. Thank you for sharing this.
Margo, you are so lucky! I grew up in the “hug them only if they are so old they might die before you see them again” culture. Or conversely, they are a child under the age of 10.
Victoria, how beautiful that Thich Nhat Hanh teaches hugging as meditation, and reconciliation. I have heard and practiced the right cheek position. Something about it does feel better, though I forget most of the time now. I learned from a talk friend the importance of making yourself the same height as your hug partner. Tall people, bend knees a little and space knees apart so that you can bring your shorter partner right into your body, with unabashed innocence and full connection.
I had some good hugs today. I want some more good hugs tomorrow.
I never really thought about early hugging… but now I have been thinking…
I think I always was a snuggler. I remember being a toddler and crawling into bed with my folks a lot after I ran thru the dining room scared of boogey man in living room, holding up security blanket so I wouldn't have to see…
I remember my dad carrying me around the dining room table every nite when I had ear infections… I had my tonsils removed at 3…
I also remember the best place to relax was on my dad's lap. my older cousins told me he never was an affectionate man, but changed after I was born.
he carried me up the stairs to the 2nd floor apt til I was 10! he was my safe place.
and I think I have spent most of my adult life looking for that special place again!
and in high school I had sweet boyfriends who hugged a lot, but then we usually did that when no one was around, teehee!
skip decades to hanging out in the bar after a few drinks… and i would hug everyone! oh dear… (not usually strangers, but then after a few drinks, who is a stranger?) by the way, I dont drink anymore. and i also dont get a lot of hugs anymore either. that is a shame…
altho I do have some wonderful friends that unfortunately I dont see often, but we always have melting hugs, and I treasure those!
the massage classes, especially the polarity program and the energy classses, we always hugged. no wonder i chose the touchy feely profession!
and I forgot to mention the I am so glad to see you hug, where you run up and one of you jumps up into the other ones arms, with legs wrapped around! those dont happen too much any more either tho…
and don't forget the slow dancing hugs … I have fallen in love in those arms… sweet sweet memories…
I better get out more … I am in need of some melting, besides from this heat in the summer desert. so when is world hug day again???
open arms, open heart… peacelovelight
I bet the late '60s free love movement also was a big influence! ;)
(((((HUGS))))) to you all!
Keep spreading these here Hugs everyone! How wondrously yummy all of these post are…
That so many of us have had opportunity to learn to Hug, offer hugs, when the opportunity permits…
Was it not Dr Leo Busculia who suggested hugging all the time and was known a the hug guy or something…
I remember in early recovery, that people use to come to me for hugs, since I don't attend meetings on a regular basis I miss that part, not only giving but receiving…
Spread the hugs…
I am Love, Jeff
Hi Jeff, do you have a hug report?
Margo, I was a lap baby born into a hugless culture. No wonder I am unwittingly starting a movement ;o)
Oooo I like those kind of hugs Kathy. I learned recently that going left when you hug is more defensive and going right is more open. But of course I can feel them even through this medium of the internet because you are right about a hug being something besides the physical part, it really is a melting/merging experience when we open and allow. Doesn't matter if my rear is sitting here in Cali cuz I'm right there hugging you.
Thanks I needed that this morning!
ooooh I was in need of some hugs and found them here :) that they are melting is all the butter! heehee
I actually have discussed melting hugs with my students since Carla's post. I also show them the free hugs videos on youtube. They want to do this on campus :-)
See what you started, Carla? We have a melting hugs movement making its way around the world :-D
I too am loving these hugging tales…
it was the highlight of my nite last nite, as the weather cooled…
I sure miss these hugs…
but am so feeling them here…
virtual is better than none at all,
and I can really feel the closeness here, which is what I miss the most!
so thank you one and all… and carla, we all grow from what we often lack!
I am so glad you started this, and oh sweet Kathy, thank you for continuing this wondrous thread… of hugs! feelin them here!
Dear fellow huggers, I would like to hug each and every one right now! But, guess what? I am visiting Manhattan & my precious daughter this week so she's gonna be getting most of the hugs. It's lovely to melt with her… and maybe even hug this entire city!
Thanks for adding the butter Carla, Margo, Jeff, Doug, and Sprite! (forgive me if I've missed anyone, hard to use this new computer). Doug, I'm thinking sometimes we might be called to go left and sometimes go right and maybe there's different magic at different times as we listen to which direction we want to go? Suppose Spirit knows a hug on the left might heal some tension there? Or a hug on the right will better move the energy there? Just a thought right now..
Sprite, how wonderful that you have been able to discuss these delicious hugs with your students! Hey we're gonna take this to the world. Huggers, unite! :)
Diva Kathy,
Thank YOU for this Beautiful offering, & Diva Carla, thank You for pointing me to & inspiring it!
Would everyone here please help me cajole, nudge &/or seduce Carla into starting up Melting Hug Parties. I see people out in the open air, first in Maine, then everywhere, melting ourselves in ever-brighter waves of Orgasmic Huggy Bliss!
Hi Kathy!
hope you are enjoying your daughter and new york…
inspiring new yorkers to hug strangers? that would make the headlines! teehee. dont get me wrong, new yorkers are great huggers!
about all I can muster up at the moment is some melted butter…
quite liquified at the moment! as am I!!!
you know the hug is here somewhere, maybe it is cooling off outside,
or maybe in the freezer, or with some soft snow flakes, that i wish you could send me some soon, hahahahahaha. they would melt before they left cloud!
and after the northeast has been hugged sufficiently,
come down here after the summer heat, and bring it on!
melting takes on a whole new meaning in this part of the country.
fried eggs on the concrete anyone? or suana in the 130 degree car?
I really need to get into some air conditioning soon, while I am still solid!
much love and many many virtual hugs sent to all! real ones will have to wait!
peacelovelight and shade… ;) ♥
ok update, yesterday I had a friend who was feeling really down and I asked for his permission to give him a virtual melting hug. It was yummy and he/we felt oh so much better :-D (btw, ty! to who came up with this idea. I looked above and my eyes got crossed, lol)
Kiah said last night, “Let's hug!” just before jumping on my lap (Yikes!) and we had the most lovely melting hug. She said one of the hardest things about being in NYC and not knowing many people is that she hasn't had many good hugs in the last five months. She said you don't know how much you miss that until it's gone…
Nut, definitely, Carla should have hugging parties! It's in her destiny. She can't escape…not that she'd want to, I don't think. :)
Margo, hugging out there at 130 degrees might be just a little MUCH! Guess what, it was 93 degrees back home in the Upper Peninsula yesterday (NO KIDDING!) and “only” 82 here in NYC! Figures I had to leave when the temp got really hot for a day…
Hi Sprite. That sounds like it was a wonderful hug. I think we all came up with the idea! How's that? :)
Kathy,
Sounds like Kiah was asking and receiving hugs from you… I think in NYC a smile at each other is almost as wondrous, it is amazing the energy that is in NYC…
If your daughter is interested I have a Urban Shaman friend who offeres circle and group meeting around the city… His Name is Joe Monkman he is on my Face Book list… it would be a great way to connect to a higher viv in the city…
I am Love, Hugs, Jeff
Hi Kathy!
we are having a cold front today… in the 80s inside now… whoopee!
but no one around to hug til tomorrow nite when cousin comes in from NY!
may be away from computer for weekend cuz dont want to drive into town in the heat with my laptop, hmmmm, the withdrawals of gaia and fb hugs!!!
hoping for a day to drive out in the desert and big sky… but who knows, the ac might keep us inside hotel or dangling feet in pool, holiday traffic gets pretty heavy…
I took Polarity classes from Gary Strauss, can youtube him…. he started the one in NY years ago, now he is in LA… but i think they still should have one… and Heather Principe lives east, she is well known shaman on east coast… I thought of it after i noticed Jeff mentioned he knows one too…
so there are plenty of folks out there who would be of the 'higher viv'…
gotta get my butt off this chair and do laundry and clean my car and pack overnite bag as I have early appts in town tomorrow, then visit an ill friend, before I pick up at airport at 10 or 11 pm… gee, better check that!
warmer in upper peninsula than new york… will wonders never cease! hehe.
so I guess no snowflakes at either end of the country!
but lots of melting (((HUGS))) all over the world… much love, have fun, and all that good stuff…peacelovelight
Jeff, I'm not sure if shamanism is something Kiah is interested in right now, although she's becoming interested daily in all sorts of holistic healing work. But I passed along the info to her! Yes, there is some amazing energy there in NYC. It's not like any other place I've ever visited. Don't know what it's all about…but it was a pleasure to visit. And to hug my daughter in person again!
Margo, the Polarity classes sound fascinating too. Hey I hope you have fun with your cousin from NY and you don't bake her too much down there in the heat! lol… as for the 92 degree day in the Upper Peninsula, don't worry. It's gone back to “normal” and last night we sat outside right before dark (had to get in the Outdoor Adventure before bed) and the temp was about 48 degrees. And that's when it's especially lovely to get a melting hug from your husband. When you're a little cold. I'm not sure melting hugs would be appealing when one is sweating and hot and the temp is 106. Maybe even when the temp is 80. Hmmm…. :)
What a long melting hug this thread is….wonderful early morning,birds singing in the background and feeling this oatmeal like space of warmth as I melt into it…I have loved melting hugs for years as they always brought me into the present and I forgot everything in favour of that .As Victoria said,the breathwork with the hug is important,the long ex-hale is the butter-melting tool that takes us into paradise.
Being left-handed,I tended to go left,but it had no effect in how good it felt……….all good……….Thank you Kathy for this opportunity,Carla for the key,and Victoria for the link…and all the M-Huggers….hugging for world peace……..Ralph
YES, Waterheart, the breathwork is everything, I think. It's that long exhale where we enter paradise. :)
Thank you for stopping by, Ralph & hugging us all with your words of pure beauty.
I'm sorry I missed this blog! What a great idea of bonding with oneself; almost like shape-shifting!
I'm often told that I am an amazing hugger… I do enjoy giving them! So, why not try it out on myself!!? Thanks for giving us the idea, Kathy!! What a beautiful thing!
Hello, Rachel! I'll bet you ARE a great hugger. Truly amazing, in fact. Hope you've tried the self-hugging bundle of love and you've melted into a puddle of the Love that You are. tee hee… :)