Inside Out with Jimi Hunt - The Mental Fitness Podcast
Health & Fitness:Mental Health
28. Embrace Embraces (How hugs can change the world...)
Want to find out why an encounter with a ‘half-naked’ man playing a pan flute on a really big rock in Arizona changed the way Jimi hugs forever?
As he chats with his favourite person to hug in the whole world, Jimi reveals the reason he wants you to change the way you hug and he details his two hard and fast rules about how to give a ‘proper’ hug. Detailing his ‘how-to’ take your hugs from a casual hello to a powerful and beautiful shared human experience, Jimi shares stories about some of the best hugs he has been a part of and the impact they have had on the recipient.
We know that physical, human contact is crucial in our development and well-being through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and in this episode Jimi and Libby discuss how, as a society, we are starved for contact and platonic touch and how extended periods of time without giving or receiving physical touch can have an adverse effect on our mental fitness.
Highlighting some of the differences between Eastern and Western culture and how touch is perceived between the two, they talk about how stigmatised and sexualised we have made hugging and physical contact and the detrimental effects this leads to.
Hugs can be a form of healing, connection, joy and happiness. Embrace the embrace and improve your mental fitness and overall well being.
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