To your Hands, with Love
Hands. Two. For your feminine one, for your masculine another one.
Two hands have taken you from your mother’s womb.
Two hands have placed you at your mother’s breast.
Hands have touched and comforted you while you were sleeping.
With your hands you learned the world. To play, hug, to caress, to carry, to fight, to make bread, to show love to your cat or dog, to stay away from hot or cold stuff.
In traditional healing techniques and energy work, hands are the start and finish of one’s body energy circuits. In Reiki, the therapist feels with her hands the areas of your body that need healing the most. In Reflexology and Acupuncture, hands hold important points linked to organs or meridians.
When we are single and with no permanent partner for a longer time, what we really long for is not sex, but touch, the hands of a beloved on our skin.
So you see…Hands are so important for what makes us human, happy and healthy.
Nowadays we use hands (and fingers) to work on laptops, scroll on TikTok. Countless hours per day we are using these God given links to the Universal Energy to connect with technology and less and less with…ourselves and among ourselves.
So get back to loving your hands so they will love you too. Hands are a 2 way street of giving and receiving when used for our good. Through our hands, we include the World and the World includes us back.
How can we make our Hands a more active part of our being and receiving of Love?
Caress your child or your fury cat (or your dog), she needs your affection and you need her balanced energy.
Water your flowers and touch them with love.
Hug your partner, your sister, your mother. For at least 20 seconds, right?
Work the land a bit, when connecting to the earth, our hands gently balance our entire energetic footprint to match what it needs: nature’s rhythm.
Make a summer lemonade, squeeze and feel the lemons give out their sunny juice.
Dance with your hands - yes, you can. You can experiment with flamenco, Balinese gestures or even Chinese moves. Or you can play a bit with Mudras, for me it is so much fun to do this as an exercise after a long writing session.
Do some yoga with Adriene and be steady in your hands as they will hold your body.
Summer is here and we’re all into melon and ice-cream. But what about baking an apricot pie for you and your loved ones? Things cooked with love will always taste better.
Write a kind message using pen and paper. The act of writing like this reinforces the strength of your fingers and hands.
Go play with ceramics a bit. This weekend I visited the Museum of Ceramics at Piscu, a wonderfully (and rather new) location outside Bucharest dedicated to the old tradition of pottery and ceramics. They also have short pottery classes, it felt so refreshing to feel the water and the clay giving life to a shape. The Museum has a modern, eco architecture and is extremely quiet. More like a meditation spot full of arts and crafts, this is how I felt it. Piscu is a formerly pottery centre, and its novel museum houses a collection of maps, old photographs and documents, antique tools and machinery, and, above all, lots and lots of pots.
