Returning to Our Origins – The Need to Reassess the Importance of Boundary-Based, Conscious Human Connection

Human psychology has been playing major contributory factors in the calibration of human medicine, as it is cognitive perception that has ultimately shaped the trajectory of medical progress. Such perceptive patterns are dependent upon the integrity of emotional and intellectual levels of intelligence, meaning that good emotional states can significantly contribute to shaping medical and scientific progress. Throughout the paper, the topic of the progressive loss of balance in societal perspectives, attitudes and behaviours will be thoroughly assessed, given that such loss of balance often results in a phenomenon known as “throwing the baby out with the bathwater”, in which good values are rooted out with the bad habits infiltrated into emerged branches. For example, the increasing epidemic of loneliness, isolation and deprivation of affection has resulted in the creation of an inaccurate perception upon the importance of solitude and self-reflection due to a generated excessive emotion of craving for human affection, which has often translated into practices of dependency upon social contexts, attachment to mismatching relationships, promiscuity and unhealthy, unexplained abandonment. Such increasing events have created unprecedented frictions within societies, which resulted in the skyrocketed extent of trust issues and isolation among people and consequently, to a steep decline in the average extent of human mental health and emotional wellbeing. Such societal frictions have significantly manifested even within biological families, which itself represents a direct factor for the recent increase in the number of people registered as “homeless”. It is therefore evident that loneliness and homelessness represent two opposite ends of the same sequence of events, as homelessness is ultimately dependent upon loneliness and isolation. The author will be presenting an extensive set of theoretical and practical solutions against the ongoing and growing problem of the existing frictions within human relationships by encouraging proportional workshops and novel lifestyles aimed at gradually repairing the created damages of human trust, with an emphasis upon existing projects of “mental health first aid”, “cuddle therapy”, “cuddled bed & breakfast” and even similar practices to be incorporated into regular housing, which may be regarded as “cuddled renting” or “housing”, as well as workshops in retreat and camping settings, alongside the creation of theoretical and practical courses to help each participating member apprehend the depth of the details covering consent, boundaries, as well as health and safety. Given that life emerges from the water and that, immediately after the new-born human is separated from the amniotic water after nine months of pregnancy, is united with the mother in a long and profound hug, affection is as important for human survival as water. Given the fact that all life forms physically emerge from water, bacteria and soil, then normative levels of human affection should be proportional to the levels observed in animals. Given that Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity may apply to human and animal psychology - at the levels of perception and intelligence - it may be important to make differentiations between the speed of animal bonding and the speed of human bonding proportionally with the displayed levels of intelligence and wisdom, given that intelligence may generally be proportional with a perceived speed of time, meaning overall that caution and social selection ultimately occur as significantly in animals as they do in humans, and that boundaries are as essential in animal bonding as they are in human bonding. Scientific evidence indicates that regular practices of “hugging” and “cuddling” are associated with optimised immune systems, lower probabilities to develop various types of illnesses, increased quality and extent of physical, emotional, neuronal and intellectual development during childhood and teenage years, as well as increased duration of life. Overall, platonic intimacy represents the most important, profound and sophisticated form of art that brings all forms of sensorial art into a complete state of “oneness”, reflecting the objective of human existence herself. The objective of extending platonic intimacy to regular life would also implicate the introduction of cuddle-optional safe spaces into settings that include foster care homes, elderly care homes, kindergartens, schools, youth centres, centres for suicide prevention, points of mental health crisis alleviation, disability service centres, palliative care centres, hospitals and other medical centres, as well as addiction recovery centres and prisons, with all laws and guidelines on safeguarding children and vulnerable people, respecting personal boundary, informed consent, as well as Health and Safety respected to the letter. It is only when such an importance is theoretically and practically understood, and when numerous people gently and patiently climb through the existing many hierarchies of intimacy that people will successfully find compatibility and thorough fulfilment in their romantic life as well.