High on Hugs

Time for Exercise: 10 seconds to one minute per hug

Properties Required: none

Steps:

  1. Give your lover different kinds of hugs.
  2. 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.

Author's Bio: 

Al Link and Pala Copeland own and operate 4 Freedoms Relationship Tantra. They regularly host lover’s romantic weekends near Ottawa Canada, and weeklong retreats in exotic locations. For more information call toll free from Canada or USA: 1-800-684-5308 International long distance: 1-819-689-5308. Visit their website www.tantra-sex.com and their blog www.askaboutloveandsex.com or send email: 4freedoms@tantraloving.com They have four books published including Soul Sex: Tantra for Two, New Page, 2003; The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Supercharged Kama Sutra, Penguin, 2007; Sensual Love Secrets for Couples: The Four Freedoms Body, Heart, Mind and Soul, Llewellyn 2007; Tantra Step by Step: 28 Days to Ecstasy, Llewellyn 2007.