Falling in love

Do you fall in love with your heart or your brain? According to Syracuse University experts studying neuroscience and mental health, the brain is key when it comes to passion. Their study shows that when you fall in love no less than 12 areas of the brain are activated, all of which work together to release substances including dopamine, oxytocin, adrenaline and vasopressin. The result of all that activity is an ecstatic sensation, similar to that of taking cocaine, they claim. The scientists also discovered that there is such thing as love at first sight, since they claim falling in love only takes about a fifth of a second. And those butterflies you feel in your stomach when you first fall for someone? They're triggered by a process in your brain too. The researchers, whose study has just been published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, examined how the brain is involved in the emotion of love and found that different parts of the brain are activated when we feel different types of love. So passionate love is triggered by the area of the brain associated with reward and body image, while unconditional love is sparked by other areas, including the middle of the brain. "These results confirm love has a scientific basis," says Professor Stephanie Ortigue, who led the research team. Professor Ortigue hopes her study will help develop new ways of treating people suffering from emotional stress and depression as a result of a broken relationship. More

What is love?

Love is perhaps the single most common emotion humans want to experience. We seek to give love to others, to experience the strength of that emotion and everything it brings us. That being so, can we even begin to imagine what might transpire for us if we direct our ability to feel love for others at our own selves? Self-love is perhaps the most important gift we can give ourselves. Loving ourselves is perhaps the most important work of our lifetime. Self-love means self-acceptance. We cannot love those parts of ourselves we hate. Once we accept ourselves and look at those bits of ourselves we have been trying not to, then we can begin to heal ourselves. You will no doubt have heard the saying “what you resist, persists.” Loving ourselves means accepting the pain we feel, acknowledging the pain we feel, accepting that we experienced that. Pushing it away achieves nothing except to keep us miserable. Once

ADULT GAME

we bring our pain into our awareness, then we can pour the love that we so easily give others into ourselves. This feels good. Instead of beating ourselves up for our perceived shortcomings, we feel compassion for ourselves just as we would for a hurt or upset child. Thus, we release our pain leaving us freer to respond to life in more affirming ways. As we release our pains one by one, so we become more ourselves. As we release our pains, so we experience more joy. Being kind and loving to ourselves means that we are more able to be kind and loving to others. Thus we develop the capacity to give and receive love. Then we radiate love. Isn’t that what we all want? Falling in Love

All About Woman

Introduction

Greetings, fellow reader! Thanks for taking the time to read my book, all about women. For the next few hours and beyond, I’ll be your guide on a fascinating journey. I’ll do my best to make it a good time for both of us. My goal is to take you through a complete transformation, whether you are a total beginner or you have already had a few girlfriends here and there. Please don’t forget that what I’ve written here might be too much to absorb in one reading. So don’t hesitate to check back often and consult this book whenever you have problems with women. It was designed that way. So let’s begin …

ADULT GAME

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