Tuesday 12 March 2013

The Power of Love – What is It?



The Power of Love – What is It?





There are many types of love.  The love of a friend, someone close to you that you have grown to know over many years.  There is the love of a mother or father, those people who have cared for you and raised you up from the time you were just a toddler.  There is sibling love, a close and inseparable bond between brother or sister. There is the love for an endeavor, that which you participate in and without it you feel lost.  There is romantic love, that which can blossom fully, complete with understanding, devotion, and passion. Then there is love between those whose romance may have waned, but share a life together in marriage or other similar bond.

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It seems love has many faces and yet no one can really, fully understand it, at least completely.  It is the most common thing our species share and the bond of such a feeling is so strong that lives rise and fall.  So is it something in our minds…..an emotion that is not founded on fact or scientific study.  Or is there something happening in our minds and bodies… something chemical… possibly a code written into our very own DNA? Is it mother’s nature’s clever way of keeping us reproducing so that our species is successful?
While there is probably some disagreement about that which I report, a sizable majority of scientists, biologists, and psychologists believe that romantic love is a product of an irresistible and potent cocktail of chemicals that is produced within our bodies.  Nature’s role in this is powerful and probably trumps anything else that you may have previously thought.  Through studies, psychologists have demonstrated it takes about 2 to 4 minutes for you to reconcile all of the cues you get and decide if you really care for someone.  From there, the emotion will invariably deepen if certain circumstances unfold.  Most of this determination about who we really come to love is achieved through body language (IE. About 55%).  About 38% of the cues you pick up is based on the sound, tone, and speed of the voice of the person you are becoming enamored with.  Only about 7% is based on what they actually say.  So in this case, how one says something and how they appear when they say it, trumps largely what they are saying.
This is not to say words do not matter.  But the science points to the nonverbal cues as mattering the most!  That is apparently the mechanism for how romantic love unfolds in our lives.  As to the other forms of love, well that is a subject we will tackle in the future.  Indeed, if you woud like to weigh in on this topic, drop us a comment or feel free to write an article as we would gladly give it consideration for publishing on our website!

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