Unlimited Riches by Hansen Mark Victor;

Author:Hansen, Mark Victor;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: G&D Media
Published: 2021-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

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The Art of Hugging

My wife and I did a national hug survey once. We discovered that 83 percent of us grow up in families that got less than one hug a day, and 98 percent of us want more hugs than we’ve been getting. The Self-Esteem Institute says you need four hugs a day to be normal, eight for maintenance, and twelve for growth. Once I was in Calgary, Canada, talking to an audience of five hundred, mostly men. I said, “If you guys aren’t stuck in your machoism, I’d love to hug all of you.”

When you’re hugging someone shorter than you—I’m six feet four and hug a lot of people every year—bend your knees. Short people don’t want whiplash. When you’re with little kids, get down to their eye level and hug. With his Center for Attitudinal Healing, Dr. Jerry Jampolsky, author of Love Is Letting Go of Fear, taught us that all kids need more hugs and that little boys get fewer kisses and hugs than little girls, because we think hugging is OK for little girls. If you’ve got little boys in your life, they deserve hugs and kisses too.

Also, when you’re in a hug, be in a hug. So many people hug teepee to teepee—ever see that?—or they give you the old right hip, and they give you the old left hip. The guy that’s not sure of his masculinity tries to burp you, break you, or bend you.

When you’re in the hug, be in the hug. On the way out of a hug, make sure you reestablish good eye contact. Lock into the person’s eyes, and if your self-esteem is such that you can handle it, inwardly verbalize and cast the enchantment, “I love you.” You don’t have to say it out loud. They’ll get it telepathically.

Many people are handicapped, culturally deprived, or physically challenged, and we’re here to serve them as resources. You can only do it if you’ve got it. The day you don’t feel good about yourself, go into a convalescent home and hug someone who’s had a stroke and is now aphasic, meaning that he can’t articulate his words; he has half a mind in a human body. Hug him, and he’ll take your hand and kiss it, and tears will form in his eyes. It’ll reintegrate you to remember that you’re a human being and that you are here to give love and serve greatly.

If you want to know whether greed is too much of a factor in your life, make sure that you keep giving. Make sure your charitable tendencies are such that you give while you’re living and when you’re gone, you give even something more. Leave something with permanence, like Andrew Carnegie, who created libraries around the world, or Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, who created the Horatio Alger Awards for Distinguished Americans. It’s an award of which I am a proud recipient: each winner has come from rags to riches and been excessively philanthropic. We have raised

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