Yeast for different purposes

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Can Love Save our Lives?

My comment:

   

Yeast for different purposes

There is not a sentence, not a word and not an interpretation in your Reflection which I do not deeply sympathize with. Your message and your definition of the power of love during our fetal period, during our fragile growth and maturation and as a condition for a long life sounds good.  However, given the world I daily experience and have experienced over the past seven decades, I have a feeling that you are presenting a recipe, in which love is the yeast of life with properties, which make our “fermentation” possible, without taking sufficient account of all the other ingredients that make a bread edible, tasty and sustainable.Through its many physiological properties, the yeast can be developed into different applications such as baking, wine fermentation, etc.. Some species of yeast can cause infection in people with compromised immune systems.

When I am looking for a general explanation of what love is and what purpose it serves, there are many theories. It turns out, for example, very difficult to explain love to a hypothetical person, who has not felt loved and been loved. For such a person, love would be experienced as a rather strange if not outright irrational behavior. Among the existing theories that try to explain the meaning of love, there are the following categories: Psychological theories, most of whom believe love to be a very good behavior. Evolutionary theories that consider love as part of natural selection. Spiritual theories which consider love to be a gift from God. There are also theories that believe love to be an unexplainable mystical experience.

“If you could groom your child, rub his head and his back and cuddle him every morning - that is love, and it has a direct physical effect. It is saying, “I am giving you life, and I will help you be healthy and live a long time.” This is a wonderful advice that you can give to most of all parents. However, for me being epileptic, with a horrific engraved birth process, cuddling and rubbing was pain and when I withdrew from physical caresses, which were not directly sexually related (quick sex yielded stress relief) I was double punished; I was considered unromantic, and I felt like a traitor who created pain in women who felt despised. I have much and long experience; I have attracted (evidenced by the content, I do not mention this to brag) many women, but I was always afraid of caresses, which brought up deep pain. “Love is wanting to be loved, Love is touch, touch is Love. Love is living, living Love”.  Love is feeling, feeling loved. I often felt loved but I could not respond, I had to much pain....and I / my pain created pain in others...

Since PT and you are attracting people with imprints of deep pain, I sense a risk of mixing advice for “normal / healthy” children, with those for patients who are prisoners of deep pain. There are yeasts for different purposes...

Jan Johnsson