For a complete happiness everyone is to hug at least for 8 times a day

YEREVAN, JANUARY 21, ARMENPRESS: Today is the International Hug Day. This unusual holiday has been celebrated for the first time in USA in 1986. At that time the holiday was called a National Hug Day, but afterward it was spread all over the world.

According to the tradition, today we may friendly hug even strangers. Though the hug holiday has not a very long history, today it is hard to find its author. It is not known whose idea is the establishment of such a holiday, and why just January 21 was selected as a day of celebrating it. It is considered that students have been the first to celebrate this holiday. Psychologists think that people, who seek for a hug, need security, comfort and love. And hugs accompany us during all our life. We hug during the meeting and parting with our friends and relatives for expressing our happiness and gratitude. People convey positive energy to each other during the hugs, and scientists have found out that for a complete happiness everyone is to hug at least for eight times a day. Lecturer of the Psychology Chair of Yerevan State University Elina Asriyan told Armenpress that during a friendly hug people exchange spiritual warmth. “A hug is currently considered a ritual, which speaks of the positive attitude of people. It is just those friendly emotions that make life longer”, the psychologist said adding that the Christian belief is laid in the basis of a hug, which says, “Love each other”. She also noted that a person hugging somebody in a mature age goes back to the best memories of childhood.