There was no need for more explanation when the Beatles released the song “All You Need Is Love” or when Mahatma Gandhi declared, “Where there is love, there is life.” We all become closer through these common understandings. It’s difficult to find someone who philosophically disagrees with love. The great religions and spiritual traditions that people use to discover their true north typically have love at their core. Almost everyone concurs that it is crucial.
When someone loses a loved one or is otherwise startled out of their regular routines, they always discover the same things. Focusing on earning money, becoming well-known, or other conventional measures of success often seems like a waste. But there is never a reason to feel guilty about spending time with loved ones and sharing love in this cold world.
But isn’t it odd that when we make sense of reality logically, we frequently overlook the thing that matters most to us all? There has been a lot of writing about what “love” is not, but not as much about what love actually is. For instance, this esteemed publication has occasionally featured blog posts with the word “love” in the title in recent years. The majority of them center on romantic or sexual connections.
There are numerous articles about depression and anxiety as well, but none about love that transcends romance. You will find more information if you search for “depression” or “anxiety.” A search for “love” in PubMed returns 1100 articles from the previous year. The majority of these interchange the word “love” for “like” or “affiliation.” You can find 28,000 articles when you search for “anxiety,” 40,000 when you search for “depression,” and 475,500 when you search for “conflict.”
When we’re attempting to understand love, there are various ways to approach the subject. Some people believe that love is the result of homo sapiens, a single species, and their words and deeds. This perspective may lead us to two different conclusions.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau came to the conclusion that although we are good, loving beings and that love is natural to us, it is lost when we are confronted with the harsh realities of the outside world and fear.
Thomas Hobbes came to the conclusion that we are not born with a capacity for love. We need to learn how to love because we are savages; doing so will help us become more civilized.
The issue with this second conclusion is that when we try to become more loving by altering the way we speak and behave, we risk producing a fake version of love called “plastic love” that may seem real and even gain us the attention we seek. The magic will be lost, but we might even be able to teach AI to say and do the right things when it comes to “loving.”
When we are in this unified field, we humans naturally emit love. There is nothing for us to do or learn. Simply letting go will allow love to be. Other times, we lose sight of this area and our “not loving” habits take control.
You don’t need to learn how to express and act in loving ways if you hold this view of love, which is spreading more and more. A realization of who you are, what matters most in life, and how that can flow through you is what is being requested of you instead of tensing up.
Anyone may tune into the frequency of love and shine it on someone else, according to this theory of love. For instance, research from the Heart Math Institute examines the potential for two people to tune into the field of love simultaneously, producing a resonance or sense of unity.
What would change for you if you realized that love is a basic component of who you are, a limitless field that sustains and gives you life, rather than merely a result of relationships? What if love itself is you? When you give up attempting or pretending, what remains?
One of the most significant advancements in psychology and medicine to hasten the healing process could be this new perspective on love.