The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
Interpretation
Hugs are essential for emotional well-being and personal growth.
This quote by Virginia Satir emphasizes the importance of physical affection in our daily lives. It suggests that hugs not only fulfill a basic need for connection and comfort but also play a vital role in maintaining our emotional health and fostering personal growth through nurturing relationships.
In practice
Sharing this quote at a family gathering to encourage affection among relatives.
Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.
The message sent is not always the message received.
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.
Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the individual family will be reflected in the kind of society that these families create.
I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately, to communicate congruently, to take responsibility, and to take risks. The end of adolescence is the beginning of adulthood. What hasn't been finished then will have to be finished later.
We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we shou'd be woo'd, and were not made to woo
I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.
All for love, and nothing for reward.
At moments like this I envy those who have found a safe haven in which to bestow their hearts; or perhaps I envy them for having a heart to bestow. I often feel that I myself am without one, and possess in its stead merely a heart shaped stone.
The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to receive it. So love can only be kept by being given away, and it can only be given perfectly when it is also received.
Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.
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