The Healing Power of Love

There is only one pure emotion. That is love. All other emotions are an expression of love or of fear of losing love.

Candace Pert’s work with peptides, which she calls the bio-chemistry of emotion, has identified these cells as the messengers that deliver every instruction to every other cell, telling them when to do what and how to do it. These messages are in the form of emotion. Each instruction that directs the maintenance, repair, growth and defence of every aspect of the human body is emotion. The messages are influenced by the overall emotional state of the individual. A depressed person delivers messages of depression to each cell in each moment. An angry person has angry cells. A person in love, allowing the free flow of love without fear, is healthier, more robust and more resistant to disease and injury. “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. We are literally created and sustained by love.

Bernie Siegel, in Love Medicine and Miracles, talks about the effects of love on healing and health. He says that people in love have lower blood pressure and lower levels of lactic acid in their blood making them less tired. This may be reflected in the fact that married men live longer. People in love have higher levels of endorphins associated with euphoria and an increased pain threshold. Their white blood cells respond better when faced with infection. Siegel states that love may help prevent heart disease, citing a well reported research project that went awry. Rabbits were fed a diet that guaranteed a build-up of plaque in their arteries blocking the flow to the heart. When autopsied, half the rabbits had a much lower level of arterial plaque than could be reasonably expected. It turned out that a lab assistant petted half the rabbits at night, giving them added affection. These were the rabbits with the relatively clean arteries.

Even watching loving acts may improve immune function. It was reported that people shown documentaries of Mother Teresa’s work had increased levels of immunoglobulin-A in their saliva. This is the first live defence against viral infections and colds.

Some people believe that pure love is the essential energy of all creation, the primal God stuff that all things are made of. It’s a basic assumption of physics that everything in the universe and all that exists are functions of the flow of love. All creation is the expression of love. The fear of losing love and the forms that fear takes, e.g. hatred, anger, fear, envy, jealousy, etc., represent the stagnation or restriction of the flow of love. In a broad sense, this restriction and/or stagnation are disease.

Unconditional love is the absence of restrictions in the flow of energy that creates the body. In the absence of restrictions the state of health is robust. Health problems can be seen in the energy bodies as restrictions and stagnations even before they manifest is the physical body. The restrictions of stagnation of essential energy may be seen as separation from God or the fear of separation from God. If all things are manifestations of God Stuff, universal energy, real separation is impossible. It follows that disease, as well as all other life challenges result from the illusion of separation from God.

It’s been said that the only thing you can always choose is your attitude. In any situation you can choose to love all involved including yourself. This may be the most important healing act you can perform. Evelyn Eaton, in, The Shaman and the Medicine Wheel, says, “The first indispensable step towards healing, especially the healing of cancer, is to release all resentment, to summon up, to review and dismiss all that our wounded egos hold against anyone who has ever hurt us, all the recent stabs, and all those old unhappy far off things, and battles long ago, so long that our conscious memory may have forgotten them, so long that they may stem from a previous life. We must release everything, empty it all out, bless and free everyone, including ourselves, of every feeling of guilt.” Ultimate healing comes from choosing unconditional love for ourselves and for others. For more articles like this one visit www.broroy.com