Understanding Love

What does love have to do with chronic pain? Everything. Love is awareness. Anger and awareness cannot exist in the same room simultaneously. Anger is your body’s last ditch effort to regain mental or physical control. Your metabolism and stress hormones are elevated. The inflammatory markers have sensitized your brain and caused the blood flow to switch away from the thinking to the survival regions. You are “off-line.” Awareness is the opposite. You are listening, reading social cues, are available to respond to your needs and those of others. The clearest definition of love we have seen is in Anthony DeMello’s book of meditations, “The Way to Love.” Utilizing strategies to calm down your nervous system will allow this energy to reappear. “Aware of Being Unaware” - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/no...