World Hug Day 2020 cures anxiety stress - After Blue Monday, the saddest Monday of the year, World Embrace Day arrives on Tuesday 21 January to boost morale. It is now known that hugs are good for health, both physically and psychically: according to researchers from the University of Amsterdam, in fact, Hug Therapy or therapy of the embrace, helps to dominate anxieties, depression and stress, also contributing to make us mentally stronger and happier.

Established in 1986 in the United States, the World Hug Day is an opportunity to rediscover the emotional contact and the pleasure of a hug, a gesture that is increasingly becoming unusual, especially in today's world dominated by the frenzy and the absence of displays of affection.

The embrace represents a comfort, a reassurance, a consolation. As has been seen recently in all media, the living being is spontaneously led to seek contact with each other: the images of Australian koalas embraced to face a moment of great fear and difficulty are clearly impressed in everyone's eyes.

World Hug Day 2020 cures anxiety stress

This is the therapeutic power of a hug, to be celebrated today as every day.

You can embrace, as happens in Milan by Biancolatte Hugs, the kingdom of Hug Therapy in Milan, soft stuffed animals, including the large White Rabbit "Free Hugs". "The plush represents - explains Dr. Marta Di Meo, psychologist and psychotherapist expert in Hug Therapy - the object that brings us back to childhood, when we had no thoughts or worries.

The embrace with the plush goes to act at hormonal level by lowering cortisol, which is the stress hormone, and allowing our body to release beneficial substances that facilitate muscle relaxation and lower heart rate; the body therefore relaxes and the mind is more peaceful ".

Paris: ok the reconstruction of the crusader in Ortisei

The reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament of the right knee to which Dominik Paris was subjected was perfectly successful, after the injury on Tuesday during a super-G training in Kirchberg, a few kilometers from Kitzbuehel

Two hours of intervention, from 18.45 to 20.30. Dominik Paris underwent the operation of the cruciate ligament reconstruction of his right knee in the late afternoon of Wednesday, after Tuesday's injury in Austria during training in view of the Super G in Kitzbuehel. Paris was operated in Ortisei by a team made up of Andrea Panzeri, president of the FISI Medical Commission, and the orthopedics of Sportklinik. Now the blue will stay for a couple of days in the Gardena clinic and then the rehabilitation process can begin.
"The anterior cruciate ligament was completely broken and there was a partial lesion of the medial collaterlal - said Dr. Panzeri -, it has now been completely rebuilt and Paris will soon be able to move it again".
In the coming days, Paris will carry out further consultations with the FISI Medical Commission.

PIETRO TARICONE / Marina La Rosa: "After the accident, Kasia Smutniak and I ..."

Pietro Taricone: to "Come to Me" Marina La Rosa remembers her great friend and reveals that she has no longer had contact with her partner ...

The tenth anniversary of the death of Pietro Taricone, the unforgettable competitor of the first, historic edition of Big Brother, who perished in a tragic accident that occurred while practicing parachuting at the Terni airfield, will take place on 29 June. Marina La Rosa, who spoke to “Come to Me” this afternoon, recalls: “When this tragedy happened, people stopped me on the street and cried as if a loved one had died. Pietro was generous, he had great qualities. This, from home, people perceived it. He came to people's hearts. " Taricone and La Rosa became inseparable friends, although the woman revealed that she no longer had any contact with her partner, the Polish actress Kasia Smutniak, after that tragic day. "I never saw or heard her and little Sophie again," Pietro Taricone's daughter who grew up without her father; she was really small, in fact, when fate deprived her of the smile of the one who is universally remembered with the nickname "Warrior".
PIETRO TARICONE, MARINA LA ROSA REMEMBER: “THAT CHOC PHONE CALL”

Marina La Rosa, a guest of Caterina Balivo in "Vieni da Me", was asked by the presenter about her relationship with the late Pietro Taricone, with whom she shared the experience of Big Brother: "Pietro was wonderful as a person. I know that it is usually said of all those who are no longer there, but he was able to establish a wonderful relationship with anyone, from the accountant to the university professor. After the reality show, we became very close friends, whatever happened to me I saw it as a problem and Pietro was always there. " Not only that: "Every time we felt he was very relaxed, capable of instilling tranquility in his interlocutor". As Marina La Rosa recalls, Taricone “was a great fan of the world of horses, so much so that he had built a stable on his own. He loved everything he did. " Up to the fatal parachute accident on the Terni airfield: "That day I was at home with my son who was very young. Suddenly the phone rang. She was a journalist, who coldly asked me: 'Do you tell me something about what happened?' I still didn't know anything about what had happened to Peter ... ". Suddenly, silence. Marina La Rosa's eyes are veiled with emotion and a silent cry, the same that still permeates the feelings of those who loved Pietro Taricone.