© ALAMYFalling in love produces a similar high to taking cocaine
The first flush of love stimulates 12 different parts of the brain to start releasing "feel-good" chemicals such as dopamine, oxytocin, adrenaline and vasopression, a study at Syracuse University in New York found.
The same chemicals are triggered by a dose of cocaine - meaning that the feeling of falling in love is similar to that induced by taking the Class-A drug.
Professor Stephanie Ortigue, who led the research, said: "These findings confirm love has a scientific basis. But they beg the question: 'Does the heart fall in love, or the brain?' I would say the brain, but the heart is also related because the complex concept of love is formed by both bottom-up and top-down processes from the brain to the heart and vice versa."
The study also showed that different kinds of love affect different parts of the brain. Unconditional love - such as that between a mother and a child - is triggered by the common and different brain areas, including the middle of the brain.
Passionate love is sparked by the reward part of the brain, and also associative cognitive brain areas that have higher-order cognitive functions, such as body image.
you know.. this just pisses me off!
experience can help us here...
have you ever grown out of a relationship? The younger generation will hear me a little louder as they generally have less tolerance for people..
There is no such thing as love at first sight, you are only noticing what this person has that you have lost in yourself and are reminded of it.. When this is realized, the relationship generally ends as its use has worn, and you are now as complete as can be while being with this particular person. NEXXXXT
What IS great about this is that I can legally live life off my head.. the trick is in the notion that you are already complete, even at birth, only to be programmed by duality and environment through life.
If I can choose what to take in during my day, what to make note to be conscious of, like beauty for example, then at any moment in my experience, I can love the experience itself negating the need to find it in another person.
What is wrong with man today is evident in the need for the above article to exist.