Body Freedom Exercise (14): High on Hugs
January 31, 2008 by Al Link
Filed under Relationship Happiness
Exercises To Do Together
High on Hugs
Time for Exercise: 10 seconds to one minute per hug
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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.
Excerpted from our new book Sensual Love Secrets for Couples: The Four Freedoms of Body, Mind, Heart and Soul, by Al Link and Pala Copeland, Llewellyn, 2007
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