If you hugged a stranger for a few minutes would you feel differently about them? Would you care for them?

In this weeks inspiration video – we’re sharing a snippet from Steve Hartman’s CBS series On the Road.

Photographer Richard Rinaldi has spent years on a personal project that has shown that almost instantly strong emotions are created.

Even the brief touch required for his portraits, is enough to bring out this basic human desire to care for those around us.

It proves what we’ve said all along – touching the people around us whether by thought or deed is important. It’s the reaching out that’s the important thing. And of course, hugging is good

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This is part of our ‘Monday Inspiration’ series – videos to inspire the start of your week.

Check out these other videos in the series

Video: an experiment in happiness

Video : Travel the world and call it work!

Video : Be vulnerable to be happy

And of course, do share your thoughts in the comments below – we’d love to hear