The Hormonal Mechanism of Love

Attachment, commitment, intimacy, passion, grief from separation, and jealousy are but a few of the emotionally-loaded terms used by Dianne Santorelli’s article for the educational research to describe that feeling of which love represents. On the contrary, Maskowitz and Orgel states in the book, General Psychology, that love, hate, fear , and anger are just some of the amazing varieties of feelings which appear to be related to the differential actions of the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of our autonomic nervous system. Love is a dynamic process that represents the results of different components of the body in a given situation at a given time.
As what Joseph Chilton Pierce quoted, close to a century ago, Rudolph Steiner said that the greatest discoveries of the twentieth century science would be: to be able to prove that the heart is merely not just an organ to pump blood, but something vastly more. His statement just proves to us that since we are past the twentieth century, we can now say that our modern science is starting to discover the wonders of the heart which is mainly controlled by the brain.
Love and its different emotions and behaviours are hardly ever investigated by scientific means. Probably, artists and poets have dominated the subject matter on love and experimental science had not been considered yet. However, nowadays, scientists have been curious enough to go deeper to what really happens in the body of a person in that emotional state. And so the researchers gained such interest in this topic and would then further explain such phenomena as the reader continues.

According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders of Stroke, the brain is the most complex part of the human body. Although this organ only weighs three pounds, it controls a lot heavier organs in the body since it is the seat of intelligence, interpreter of the senses and emotions, initiator of the body movement, and the controller of behaviour. It is

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