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HUGS, RESILIENCE, EARTHQUAKES AND LOVE
MUSIC BY SCHILLER, I FEEL YOU (LEBEN)
WOLONG, CHINA 2006
The upper picture opened my eyes, it's real, but it's not after the earthquake in Japan 2011, although lots of people still believe it. It's a giant panda that holds a feeder's legs at the Chinese Giant Panda Protection Center in Wolong, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Jan. 4, 2006. China's State Forestry Administration said on Jan. 4 that the mainland would unveil a giant panda couple for Taiwan on Jan. 6. The Chinese mainland would present the selected pair of giant pandas to Taiwanese compatriots as a symbol of peace, unity and friendship.
I want to include this picture because it stimulated me to look for hugs after earthquakes. Here is what I found; the rest, as far as I know, are real.
I will dedicate this to my friend Natsuki who knows very well what these images mean.
That’s the regulating effect of the oxytocin on us, (animal?) or human. We come back into the window of love where life can be coped with again because our higher thinking brain can stay online.
TOHOKU, JAPAN 2011
Then we can choose how to respond. The reaching out with a hug, a hand on the back, a hand on the heart, can release the oxytocin. It is the neurochemical foundation of resilience, lifelong, LOVE
EMILIA ROMAGNA, ITALY 2012
Resilience is also the ability of a body or community to return to its original state after being bent, compressed or stretched. Genuine love pushes us to be truly resilient, to truly return to what we were, and even more! Isn’t it great what love does for us? A gentle hug and a human, animal, (vegetable?) calms down and re-groups almost instantaneously.
