Cimarron is an ARCC patient (she does not use the Warrior analogy, but we get along fine anyway) who sent me this e-mail on the deeper therapeutic value of hugs. I think we all might find this not only interesting, but helpful:
"Your blog is the first I have read. My sister sent the link because I have had metastasized kidney cancer since July 2004. I am assuming that this is the route to getting a comment on your page.Hugs are not simply a nice form of greeting. The human torso has seven energy centers called chakras. During a hug we align our energy centers together. If the hugger is conveying a gesture of love and concern, his/her intent impells this energy from his/her energy centers into the one receiving. The one receiving the energy has taken in the life force of Love. When we comment that some is a good hugger, we are acknowledging that we perceive the power of his/her life force entering our own energy fields. Our energy center is charged up and enables healing to occur. If two people consciously are intent on this energy exchange, think about how they are touching and think about how long to hold the hug so that energy is passed, a hug is powerful medicine indeed.
It is a shame that in this culture, touch is almost always assumed to be sexual or to become sexual. This fear of sex, distracts from the simple possiblities of a loving hug.
Touching foreheads together, where there is an energy center can also be a powerful experience of 'putting our heads together.'
And finally, for those unable to touch, extended relaxed and gentle eye contact (staring into one another's left eye) is a wonderful way to exchange energy. The eye is the window to the soul and it is the soul that transmits love and life force.
These exercises are age-old, from Tantric meditation that has its roots in India."
Cimmaron is also an artist. That's the second painting (of a series) about her cancer experience at the top of the post.
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