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Compassion and Love = Health

In this article you will see the importance of Compassion and Love for others that somehow influences for each and every one of us on this planet can have a better life and plays an important role in our health.

Compassion is a human emotion that manifests from the suffering of another person. More intense empathy, compassion describes the understanding of the emotional state of another, and is combined with a desire to alleviate or reduce the suffering. I’m pretty sure that if humans use the principle of compassion things would change in the way we relate. In a way not to treat a person like you would very likely feel sadness, rejection and low self-esteem, leading him to a level of anxiety and stress which in many cases ends in depression. How wonderful it would be if every person in the world treat others in a compassionate way and with respect. This video shows an example of how to live a better world.

Love is a virtue representing all the love, kindness and compassion of the human being. They are actions directed toward others and based on compassion, or action toward self and based on affection. Due to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts film music, and literature. The diversity of uses and meanings covering this feeling cause love is notoriously hard to define, but basically love is interpreted in two ways: on an altruistic conception, based on compassion and collaboration, and under another selfish, based on individual interest and rivalry. Selfishness is usually associated with the body and the material world, altruism, with the soul and the spirit world.

Some ways love affect your health:

  • Stress: disagreements over money and who does the housework increase stress levels in couples.
  • Anxiety: New research suggests that marital problems encourage the development of anxiety disorders such as agoraphobia and social phobia.
  • Overweight: A study suggests that people tend to gain weight when they marry, while those who are divorced or separated reduce those extra pounds, psychologist Maryann Troiani, co-author of “Spontaneous Optimism”ensures that a happy couple is a motivator to set goals, while dissatisfaction may cause unhealthy eating habits.
  • Painful separation: Researchers detail to think of a former partner generates sensations in the brain that simulate physical pain. Can even record symptoms of a heart attack caused by stress and extreme emotion.
  • Hypertension: A detailed investigation than unhappy people in a relationship have a higher blood pressure than those who are happy or singles.

What are other ways you think Love affect your health?

What are other ways you can prevent this for happening?

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