Love as Alternative Medicine

Wisdom says love is a powerful alternative medicine.

alternative-medicine-healing-heart Don’t scoff at it. It’s true. Love is more powerful and healing than you know and more beneficial to your natural health.

Remember a time, a specific time, when you felt strong love for another person. How exactly did it feel to you? Where in your body did you feel it? What were the sensations?

Love makes you feel good- NOW

Most people experience love for another as one of the most pleasurable and desired emotions and sensations. Love stimulates us, makes us feel very alive. Colors may seem brighter and sharper.

We feel energized and may engage in life with renewed enthusiasm. We feel more optimistic and powerful. Love focuses us with riveting force in the present moment, even as we may chase it or flee it in another moment.

The present moment is all we have and where we truly are alive.

Usually, the feeling of love is accompanied by a feeling of expansiveness, of being open, especially
in the chest and heart. At the same time we feel more energized, we feel more relaxed, less stressed, more secure, competent and self confident. We feel connected and life feels more meaningful.

We feel, well, just plain happier.

Love boosts your health

The effects of love- happiness, relaxation, optimism, focus, being present, energized, self love and feeling life has meaning- are strongly associated with health, longevity and overall well being.

Physically, love may stimulate neurotransmitters and biochemicals like oxytocin and endorphins which are pleasurable. It may cause cardiovascular arteries and veins to relax and open. We may breath more deeply giving us more oxygen. It is possible it might have a beneficial effect on the immune system, although I know of no studies done on that subject. These effects would be good for overall peak natural health.

Want to help the world?

These potent positive effects may also extend to community and our relationship with the world. Oxytocin is a bonding biochemical. It is what helps us connect to others, empathize, want to help them. Maybe a little love before battle might avert some wars and solve some problems.

Practice loving-kindness every day.

Sit and breath in the people in your life one by one and their feelings. Suspend judgement. Breath out love to them for who they are. Don’t forget to include yourself!

So, next time you want a natural health boost, kiss your partner, hug a friend, say- and truly feel- “I love you”.

Here’s is a chi energy and reiki healing of love for you-

I am sending you chi energy and reiki for love of exactly who you are. This distant reiki and chi energy is actually being sent to you right now. Allow yourself to open to it, take it in. Sit with it awhile. Let yourself feel it.