AT ITO NAMAN ANG... "POWER KISS"

After Laida Magtalas leaned forward and gave her boyfriend, Miggy Montenegro; her powerful hug, she immediately followed it by a power kiss, a comforting and romantic scene in the blockbuster Pinoy movie - "You Changed My Life" - a double "kilig" to the movie viewers.

After a long loving hug followed by a slow tender kiss, a perfect kiss I might say will set your heart fluttering. Just like the power hug, "a kiss is the touching of one person's lips to another place, which is used as an expression of affection, respect, greeting, farewell, good luck, romantic affection or sexual desire" (See Wikipedia).

But a kiss is not just a kiss, - we give respect and love kiss to our parents, sister and brother, we give friendship kiss to our friends, we give care kiss to our pets.We give a warm, sweet, passionate and so much kiss to our spouse/partner.

But a kiss must be given with the purest intent to treasure the closeness you share with your other. Not just a peck on the lips or one hundredth of a second contact. Allow your thoughts to captivate the attention of your own lips. Think about all the moments that you have shared with your spouse, the instants that cause your heart to race and your skin to perspire. This is very important because these are the thoughts that should cross your mind during the seconds that pass while your lips hold the lips of your other half.

Remember that kissing brings couples closer together, it ignites the passion and maintains the best prelude to sex, palagay ko lahat ay sumasangayon sa akin sa bagay na ito.

And I was surprised to learn the a passionate kissing provides an endless list of health benefits from various medical websites such as Sound Medicine and WebMD, among them are:

• it provides self esteem
• it burns 2-3 calories a minute
• effective stress-reliever
• it helps exercise 30 facial muscles
• it stabilize cardiovascular activity
• prevents stomach, bladder and blood infections
• relieves pain through the release of natural antibiotics (anesthetic) secreted in the saliva
• increases levels of oxytocin that reduces anxiety

And whatever you do, never ever rush into a kiss, make sure there are no interruptions and there’s some privacy to enjoy the moment. And if you have no one presently to kiss, allow your first kiss to express all the desire and hope you long for.

Lastly, mutual attraction is essential to a great kiss. Without it, all you're doing is pressing your lips together, and you'll leave feeling unfulfilled and disappointed. Kissing is a way to show affection, to let someone know you really like them, and a passionate way to say "I LOVE YOU" - just like Laida and Miggy.

"Mangagbatian kayo ng halik ng pagibig.

Kapayapaan nawa ang sumainyong lahat na na kay Cristo."

(1 Peter 5:14)