There are studies that have shown that a twenty second hug reduces the harmful, physical effects of stress, including its impact on your blood pressure and heart rate. That’s because prolonged hugging releases oxytocin, a powerful hormone in the brain that is only found in mammals. It is sometimes referred to as the “bonding hormone” (or even better, the “love drug”), because it plays such a crucial part in strengthening social relations. And one of the most effective ways to stimulate the oxytocin is to hug someone for a time period of no less than twenty seconds.

After all the people picking people picking people apart, my love

And after all the dealing, the hooking and reeling along from the start

Oh there’s a field, meet me there

Out beyond rightness and wrong, meet me there

Woman you’re leaving, loving, you’re leading me on

Living I’m alive, sweet woman, keep loving me on …

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KHqsz81L_jI

Nick Mulvey – Meet Me There

Ph : Anja Rakotoarimanana

… all about romance, about life’s excitement and adventure and it’s essential sadness and transience. … savour everything both fine and bittersweet that life has to offer us – a stoical in the hedonism.

– William Boyd – Any Human Heart

Ph : Signe Vilstrup