The latest findings in neuroscience place love and healthy relationships at the center of what optimizes our health, physically and emotionally, and the quality of our lives in general.
Perhaps no experience in the course of our lifetime, whether conscious or subconscious, consumes more energy, or produces more intense emotions, and up and down extremes in thinking or behaving, than the drive to secure the heart of that special person we seek, and to make a difference in some way – to matter and bring value to the relationship.
A growing body of scientific evidence shows that the way we express love and care for one another, from the time we are infants and throughout our lives, directly affects the health and physical structure of our brains and nervous systems.
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Kristi Saul
7:42 pm on
December 3rd, 2011This is a great article. I’ve been following the research on Oxytocin for years and believe that we are going to find that oxytocin is the key to health and happiness as well as a lack of oxytocin being a key component in poor health, disease and disorders.
Thanks for stopping by to comment, Kristi.
Thanks for the simple and effective ways to enhance relationships. I have tried some myself such as talking good things about my spouse to others.
I like these twenty steps very much. Without going into the neurolinguistic aspects of this, doing some or all of these things every day will make us feel better about ourselves and our partner, will make our partner feel better about us, and will enhance our relationships. For love to grow, it needs nourishment, and there is plenty of food here. Great stuff.
Thanks, Charles. Yes, the neurolinguistic aspects of love work by making partners feel better about themselves and their relationship. Thanks again for stopping by.
Great comment that ANYBODY, EVERYBODY should read. Keep them comming. Thanks
Judy
11:04 am on
December 7th, 2011What a great article! I’ve been following the research on oxytocin too because I can say with absolute certainty that oxytocin produces intense loving feelings. Oxytocin also stimulates milk let-down in a nursing mother. I nursed all three of my children and I clearly remember how overwhelming my feelings were towards my babies when I fed them. It was like taking a drug! I wonder if anyone has done a study to see if there is a relationship between post-partum depression and bottle-feeding?
I would think that oxytocin may help explain why getting depressed patients into group therapy is so effective at reducing symptoms, why few social supports increases the risk of depression and so on…the connections are endless!
Exciting stuff!
Appreciate the positive feedback and interesting insights, Judy, thank you for sharing. I’m not aware of research between depression and mothers who bottle feed, however, that seems a sound hypothesis and an interesting study. Thanks again for stopping by to comment.
Muran
9:14 am on
December 8th, 2011Great article, the simple things we forget taking away all the awsome moments from life. We get more serious about life and trying to hang on something we never wanted to reach. Great reminder to go back to simple life and feel each other. Many thanks for an eye opening article.
Nice insights and reminders, Muran! Thanks for stopping by to comment.
Nice post, keep up the great work.
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