Love as the
Greatest Medicine
So we
are fast approaching our annual day of love, romance, hugs and kisses, and
relationships. February 14th, know as Valentine’s Day and filled
with tremendous symbolism. Consider the abundance of the color red as the day
unfolds. Why red? Perhaps it is the color our society uses to represent love.
Maybe we believe red is like blood and blood emerges from the heart and our
society attaches love to the heart. “I love you with all my heart or your broke
my heart” are typical phrases that we all have used in our lives.
Valentine’s
Day is also a great opportunity for everyone to reflect and to consider what is
most precious. For most of us this typically means people and our
relationships: our family, our spouse, our children or significant other. It
means our parents who have always been there for us or maybe those who live far
away or who are no longer with us. Relationships are indeed precious and bind
us together.
It is
true, Valentine’s is a day for love, a day to express and to receive the wonderful
emotion of love. I argue that love originates and flows from the brain, that
wonderful miracle that sits between your ears. Regardless, I know love to be
the most important emotion in our arsenal of emotions. We can unite enemies,
stop wars, and bring everyone on the planet closer with love. Love overcomes
bitterness, anger, guilt, anxiety and depression.
So use this
Valentine’s as your day to practice the expression and flow of love throughout
your brain and into the environment around you. Let those close to you know you
love them and hug your family members just a little closer on this day. Reach
out to those who have been distant and extend a loving hand to those who need
one. Feel the warmth of love as it coats your brain and heals others around
you. Build relationships and make the world a little better place if only for
this one day.
Happy
Valentine’s Day.
Dr.
Nussbaum
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