LOVE IS NOT A FEELING, IT IS A DRIVE: NEUROSCIENCE
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We have all experienced love, we enjoy and suffer with the range of sensations that "being in love" gives us, which range from pleasure, euphoria, confidence and security, to anxiety, obsession and depression, but What is love ?
Love is a feeling of universal affection for a person, animal or thing.
Love also refers to a feeling of emotional and sexual attraction that you have towards a person with whom you want to have a relationship or coexistence under the same roof.
Platonic love
Platonic love is popularly known as that impossible or unrequited love, which endures as an ideal or fantasy. All this is because Plato argued that love was based on virtue, that it was perfect and did not exist in the real world, therefore it was ideal and unattainable.
True love
True love is the feeling of affection and genuine commitment that one person feels for another.
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It is an idealized concept of love, very typical of romanticism, according to which there is a pure and total love that we all aspire to reach with our partner, which is true love.
Love at first sight
Love is spoken of at first sight as a love affair that occurs immediately between two people.
This happens because people identify in the other the idealized couple, that is, a set of stereotypes that we associate with the ideal partner of life.
Clandestine love
It is designated as clandestine love that in which two people, for different reasons or circumstances, are forbidden to be together.
However, they insist on living their relationship secretly. An example of clandestine love was that of Romeo and Juliet, whose estranged families prevented them from being together.
Distance love
The love at a distance is that between two people who, although they maintain a relationship as a couple, are circumstantially living in different places. It is a type of relationship that has always existed, but that has become quite common in these times, thanks to the evolution of telecommunications.
Unconditional love
As unconditional love is called that in which the person makes a total delivery without expecting anything in return. Examples of unconditional love are, for religious, love for God, but we can also refer the love of a father or mother to a child. They are forms of love that are considered unique and special.
Filial love
It is spoken of filial love in reference to that which exists from children to parents.
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It is a form of love in which there is hierarchy on the part of the father based on authority, respect and protection. The son loves his father, but he understands that he must obey him, because he is the person who educates and protects him.
Fraternal love
Brotherly love is that which we profess towards our brothers, but which extends to those who are not blood brothers, but whom we feel as such.
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It is a relationship where it deprives equality and reciprocal love. It is one of the most important forms of love in life, because once our parents are gone, the closest people we will have will be the brothers.
Self love
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We speak of self-love in reference to acceptance, respect, perceptions, courage, positive thoughts and the considerations we have towards ourselves.
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It is a feeling that we should be able to recognize and that those around us should be able to appreciate.
SCIENCE OF LOVE
The phenomenon of love includes neurological, behavioral and emotional processes, which invade our entire body in some way. That is why being in love is, when everything is favorable, one of the best experiences in the human being.
In her work on love, Helen Fisher, a researcher at Rutgers University, placed 32 people deeply in love with an MRI scanner, in order to record their brain activity, of these 32 people 17 of them were deeply in love and they were reciprocated and 15 were deeply in love and disgusted.
Based on the results, for Helen Fisher, love is not a feeling but an impulse, originated in the motor of the mind, of the part of the mind that desires, that craves.
important areas of the brain are activated when we are focused on the object of our affection, one of them has to do with our primitive reptilian brain, the caudate nucleus. In the same way, "love" activates the areas of the brain associated with the release of dopamine , oxytocin and norepinephrine , among others.
being in love is very similar to being under the influence of a hard drug since the brain areas that are activated when we focus on the beloved object are the same ones that are activated when we are drugged.
Fisher
According to Fisher, romantic love is one of the three brain systems that evolved from mating and reproduction:
The sexual impulse :
The desire for sexual gratification, sexual hormones such as testosterone and estrogen take the main stage.
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Romantic love :
Euphoria, obsession with fresh love. Chemical substances such as adrenaline , dopamine and serotonin make us feel "in love", impossible to think of anything but our beloved object, dopamine makes us feel an intense pleasure, adrenaline and cortisol begin to flood the torrent sanguineo that is to say, we feel magnificently and on the other hand we become a bundle of nerves.
Attachment :
The feeling of calm and security that you can feel with a long-term partner. The chemical substances change now the protagonist is oxytocin , the so-called love hormone, which allows mothers to create a strong bond with their baby during the period of breastfeeding and which floods the body when we experience an orgasm, presumably to feel more united with our partner
These brain systems are the way in which nature makes us feel the need to have and select a couple with the objective of preserving the species through procreation and remaining together long enough to raise our children.
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With this one could say that the butterflies in the head, the sensation of comfort, the crazy desire to listen to the voice of your loved one, the intense desires to see him smile, the rose life, the broken heart, jealousy, etc, they are only manifestations of our natural evolution.
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The science behind lust, compassion and attractions
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Haha great article! Love comes in many forms, but indeed it just comes down to some science. Funny though, evolution is not very good at this sorta stuff it seems, because often love makes us stupid!