High on Hugs
Time for Exercise: 10 seconds to one minute per hug
Properties Required: none
Steps:
- Give your lover different kinds of hugs.
- Ask your lover to guess each hug’s meaning.
Here are some suggestions for hugs with different qualities and various degrees and types
of intimacy.
- I love you (for a lover)
- Woman to woman (friends)
- I love you (for a family member)
- Woman to woman (lovers)
- I love you (for a friend)
- Opposite sex (friends)
- Opposite sex (lovers)
- A hug for someone you are sexually active with
- “I’m afraid, please hold me”
- I might be able to get interested in sex now
- Comfort hug (“Everything will be okay.”)
- I am really horny
- Grief hug (“I’m so sorry for your loss.”)
- Hello
- Celebrate success or winning (hooray!)
- Good-bye (short separation)
- Good-bye (long separation)
- Thank you (small)
- Thank you (major)
- Man to man (friends)
- Man to man (lovers)
- I miss you
- This is a reward
- Invent some of your own hugs with particular meanings.
Comments:
Determine which hugs are suitable for which people and circumstances. Hug your lover. Hug other people you feel emotionally close to, for example, children, parents, close friends, and co-workers.