 Romance/Love: June 14, 2006 Issue [#1025] |
  Romance/Love
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Whether we are young or old we all experience feelings of love, here we will share those experiences and discuss love itself as well as why we read and write about it.
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I feel love.
In last months newsletter I discussed the chemical reactions that happen inside our bodies when we fall in love, in this months issue I would like to keep to the same theme but delve into the world of emotions.
Throughout the history of man philosophers have tried to theorise the reason for and existence of emotions, we can all read about these theories in the works of Plato, Aristotle Hume and many more, so what happens when we feel an emotion, where do they come from and why?
In order for us to feel an emotion we must experience an event, if we fall we feel pain, if we see something funny we feel happiness, or enjoyment, we can look at someone smiling and feel happy, see someone crying we can feel sad. So something outside of us experiences an event and that event changes our emotional state.
In the same way an emotion changes the way we feel physically. “The body frequently responds to Shame by warmth in the upper chest and face, Fear by a heightened heartbeat, increased "flinch" response, and increased muscle tension. The sensations connected with anger are nearly indistinguishable from fear. Happiness is often felt as an expansive or swelling feeling in the chest and the sensation of lightness or buoyancy, as if standing underwater. Sadness by a feeling of tightness in the throat and eyes, and relaxation in the arms and legs. Desire can be accompanied by a dry throat and heavy breathing.” – Wikipedia
And what about love? We can all give similar accounts of how we physically change when we feel love; shortness of breath, clammy hands, and flushed cheeks can all be described as symptoms of being in love. It seems that there is no definate answer to what is love and why we have such symtoms, although many philosphers and neuroscientits have all had a go at annalysing and theorising, but it is important to know that we all feel the same emotions and that we all have similar experiences or physical symtoms when we feel love.
In understanding this then, we can now start to look at how to use this in our writing and be able to utilise these experiences and symtoms, to draw in these emotions to captivate our audiences. In next months newsletter I will look more on how we can begin to use emotion in our own work, how we can describe our emotions and why emotions attract so many readers.
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I have found some wonderful pieces dealing with emotions and thought I would share them, I know you will all love them too!
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I had a great response from all you romantics out there, it seems we all have an opinion on what is love. Here are some I would like to share. Thanks everyone who sent feedback.
AuntyNelly
Hi Belle egggstatic,
Well first of all I'd like to thank you for such an interesting NL. I think Love is a subject we all love taking about. 'What is Love?' Well I think Love is a combination of many things. Firstly the attraction plays an important part when you first meet a person. The chemistry is defintely important, but afterwards I think trust, respect, sincerity and also friendship is an important part too. Comprehension and dialogue are also important in binding two persons lives together. Love is also carefreeness and butterflies in your stomach, not eating , heart thumping and thinking about that person for most of the day.
Take care from an eternal romantic, AuntyNelly
spazmom
I think it's interesting that the study didn't list anything emotional, like you said. I find it intriguing that NONE of those factors were involved in my marrying my husband. I was attracted to him, yes - but not initially by a physical draw (although he was very cute;). It was an EMOTIONAL draw - always.
John~Ashen 
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-Thanks for pointing that out for me John, and sorry to everyone who's items was featured but we couldn't see you name. I will make sure I use the correct tags in future.
Tammy~Catchin Up~
For me~~love is my kids!
Great 1st newsletter.
Tammy
The next topic up for discussion is, yes, you guessed it! What feelings do you think relate to love? If you have any thoughts or "feelings" on this let me know or maybe you have a comment about the newsletter, whatever you think leave me some feedback or mail me and we can share in next months newsletter when I will be relating our findings so far to our writing.
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