Life within me

Love is in the Brain!

Around the world people LOVE,Have you ever wondered what love is? for most of us it is a feeling, the deepest one, the strongest one, the one that comes with a huge box full of memories, sometimes wonderful sometimes hard, but we have to admit it, whenever we think about love, we trigger those memories that trigger a set of chemical reactions that our brain translates in Feelings.

I was watching this video about how love unchains several reactions in some parts of our brain, many scientists have conducted researches that analyze which parts of our brain are stimulated when we LOVE; the results showed that the part of our brain that works when we love is the one in charge of craving, wanting, feeling motivation and in fact, when someone experiments a rush of cocaine, the same areas in the brain are lit up.

But there is a difference between romantic love and true love, and we are going to discuss that later. First we need to describe what romantic love is. Romantic love can be compared in many ways to an addiction: First we like someone, then we enjoy the moments together, then we depend on them to make. Does these phrases sound familiar: “

“I can’t live without you”, “All I need is you”, “I’m nothing without you”, “You are my life”

Do you see any difference between these phrases and the ones from a drug addict? I can’t and in fact I think that romantic love in the end is a misconception of what love truly means.

I’m going to explain you what do I mean:

Love is a feeling right? And all the feelings that we can possibly imagine are reactions in our brain right?, but not all of them occur in the same place, different feelings activate different parts of the brain. And every part of the brain has a purpose and controls different aspects of our existence, but in the end, the only one that is aware of these reactions taking place inside of our brain is us. I am the only one that is capable to know how I feel, and that takes us to the beginning, the only way of knowing what is going on is that thing that we call feeling.

A feeling, can you see that even in the word it implicitly refers to the present moment? In other words, feeling is the only way of being aware that we are alive. And love is not an exception, the very act of loving is a sensation of completeness, awareness, feeling alive, enjoying every second, feeling light and happy, but suddenly there is something that hits us: FEAR, why fear? well simply because, in the very moment that fear hits us, we fail to see where did that feeling came from, we feel insecure, and we start craving, we want to feel the rush again, feel complete again, feel happy, we want more of that, but since we don’t have that feeling anymore we assume that the cause of that wonderful moment of feeling full, of truly living doesn’t rely on our ability to feel the love, but to give it or receive it. That is one of the biggest misconceptions of all.

This big misconception is what we call romantic love, and if you can see that romantic love is just FAKE LOVE, it is a shallow feeling, it always lives in the future, in the craving, in the need, in the attachment, in the addiction, in the past, in the insecurity, in the lack of satisfaction, everywhere but in the present. Now I see why scientists say that love stimulates that precise part of the brain.

Everything we see, everything we hear, everything we touch or taste or feel is the outcome of what we chose to see, or hear or sense or taste; so at the end if we decide to love we can love from the smallest stone to the biggest star but in the end we are not loving anything but an idea that originated within us, we don’t give love or receive love and that’s simply because that idea is a mirror of what’s happening inside.

FEELINGS CAN NOT BE SHARED; you can express love for any aspect in your life just by feeling the love of existence, of awareness, of an open mind. Each day we have the chance to discover a different aspect in our life, in fact, each day, each hour, each second, and each moment is irreplaceable, is unique, is yours. And if you embrace each and every one of them as part of your constant reality you are feeling each moment as the only thing that matters. The only way to feel the love completely is to find ourselves trapped in the present moment, find ourselves breathing, feeling, that is TRUE LOVE. On the other hand, we also can choose to be as far as possible from the present, feeling anger, depression, judging and choosing all those emotions that are not directed to anyone but you, you choose to feel love or hate; WHAT DO YOU CHOOSE?

“Love is perfect since it doesn’t have flaws, hence flaws are lack of love”

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