Tag: neuroscience

Can understanding the neuroscience behind love help reduce divorces? Yes, I believe so.

Love happens in four phases:
* Mate selection
* Falling in love or "romance"
* Falling out of love
* True love

If we understand the "falling out of love," stage better—a phase in love we all go through at some point in our journey—then we can prevent many divorces.

Most of us complain about how complicated and difficult relationships are. It isn’t unusual to blame someone; the other person or ourselves. However, if we take a step back and look at what it is that makes a relationship possible in the first place, we may find a surprising solution. I did, and it changed my life.

Evolutionary biologists speculate that the reason we developed emotions was to make relationships possible. They allowed a mother and baby to bond, helping ensure the baby's survival. From there, emotions expanded to being the connecting fiber of every relationship. There is something wonderful about realizing that.

How does the feeling of individuality emerge? How do body sensations, emotion, and cognition interact to self-organize into the emergence of a self? For that matter, what do we mean by the term "mind?" Insights into the emergence of the mind, subjectivity and emotion can be achieved by considering neuroscience research into the mind’s operating networks: the salience, the executive, and default-mode networks.