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Hugging Heals and Energizes

by Mariejo Benares on June 17, 2011

Written and posted by Mariejo Y. Benares.

HUG TILL YOU DROP! Hugging is energizing, heals wounds and is empowering!

As I grew older I get to know more what hugging does to me and have seen it in other people too.  It does make you feel like “home”. We look for home because of the comfort that we will find there, knowing that no matter what we turned out to be, we would still be accepted. If we have lived an honest life and established a good relations when we were younger, your friends during your younger days will remain to be friends. It is like having home with Mom, waiting for us to be there with her. Then the sense of longing for a hug and to get a good embrace would rush back into our memories, gets us excited suddenly.  To get a long deep hug is enough to get me excited.

My dear cousin just lost her 70 year old husband who died of cancer. He was a fine wonderful husband who took care of their family like no other 

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Hugging Prolongs Life

by Mariejo Benares on January 03, 2013

This article is written personally and posted by Mariejo Y. Benares

HUGGING PROLONGS LIFE

Friends, try the hugging that I wrote about last week. I wrote about it not because I heard or read it somewhere.  For almost 15 years now, we have been doing this “Long Life Exercise” at home simply because it works! Honest. I learned about hugging from our youngest son, John Joseph, when he was about 9 years old.

This feeling is for real. They still happen today. Get some for yourself.

One day, out of no where our son told us what he learned about hugging, how to hug and why we should hug often.  “It prolongs our life,” he says. Upon hearing him, we tried it right away to humor our son. But with just one try, we knew the exercise works.  It took away my day’s worry, it’s as if someone wiped my tears away from my heart and cleaned up the clutter in my head, It felt like the knots

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Everyone has a great story to tell, some are sad!

by Mariejo Benares on June 09, 2011

This article is written personally and posted by Mariejo Benares

Sarah Palin accepted a new responsibility to host a show.  One early morning, Oprah asked Sarah Palin what made her accept the challenge to host a show, Sarah’s reason is that “Everyone has always a story to tell”.  Although some are truly sad, they are worth telling for the sake of others.

 

 

“Now I heard this many times, and I do believe this is true” Oprah says.  “Yet, most people, and I mean most people do not believe so,” Sarah Palin added.  Many people think their lives are so dull, there is nothing important to tell.

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Gut-level Communication, Essential to Growth

by Mariejo Benares on February 25, 2013

“WHY AM I AFRAID TO TELL YOU WHO I AM?”

 

It’s a staggering catchy question, isn’t it? It can set you off to something more!

You and I are no different from each other. We are fragile inside us and hide our real “selves” away from people. This question is from the title of a small book by a minister and author John Powell, not the musician-artist Powell.  I have taken the liberty to use the title because it strikes the soul and a line that you never forget. (This article is not the same as John Powell’s book; nevertheless, the subject is related.) 

Right now, if I were to ask you to be vulnerable and expose your “self” to others, to those closest to you, will you be brave to do so? I can honestly say I would be terrified. I hate to feel naked and defenceless! 

Let’s face it, every single day that we go to work, or go to school, when we dress up to look good, sit behind our desks, meet bosses and office mates, or when we talk to classmates and friends, we are actually careful… very careful… we don’t show them everything. We may not even realize that all along we have been keeping this precious sensitive little one away from others because we are not sure how well they will take us when they find out who we really are.

We put our best foot forward and we cover our tracks, so they will think only the

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