As an adult, there are actually your body's subtle clues that you're falling in love. At the start of a relationship, a series of truly fascinating chemical reactions occur throughout your nervous system and hormones. We often think of love as something spiritual - a matter of the “heart” and “mind”—but we sometimes forget that the heart and brain are also parts of our body.
Here are some ways that being in love literally affects your body:
1. Those “butterflies” you feel in your stomach are also caused by chemicals - Falling in love causes a spike in adrenaline, which induces the “fight or flight” instinct. If you don’t flee, you’ll usually stay. And you won’t fight—at least not at first.
2. The “falling in love” phase will cause literal changes in your brain’s chemistry - An intoxicating cocktail of chemicals—such as vasopressin, dopamine, and cortisol—will flood your brain when you fall in love.
3. You will feel stress - both the good and bad kind - Love also fills the body with cortisol, which causes stress. But stress is not always negative, as it’s needed for physical arousal. But if you have a fight, you will feel the bad kind of stress—again, blame it on the cortisol.
4. Merely holding hands with them can calm your nerves and reduce physical pain - Science reveals that holding your lover’s hand soothes your neurones and can actually alleviate physical pain.
5. Love increases a woman’s testosterone levels; it decreases a man’s levels - Love makes women feel empowered. It also makes men feel a little more like women.
6. You will feel literal pain when you get dumped - The brain uses the same pathways to feel physical and emotional pain. One study showed that the same pain centres lit up when a person had a hot probe placed on their forearm as they did when looking at a picture of someone who rejected them.
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Sangeeta Bijlani writes a blog on Love and Relationship
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