| Proper nutrition, exercise, and relaxation are | | | | in a state of bliss, but as soon as you want the |
| recognized as vital ingredients for a long and | | | | other person to love you, you are miserable. |
| healthy life. But a fourth ingredient, LOVE, can add | | | | Fall in love and you have so much energy you can |
| as much to one's energy and longevity as all | | | | work day and night, but as soon as you reverse |
| other factors combined; and yet this important | | | | the direction of flow back to the self "Oh woe is |
| factor is all but omitted from current health | | | | me, aches and pains," you have so little energy |
| protocols and even from scientific study. | | | | you can hardly move. Subliminally, we see this |
| While love's great power might be overlooked in | | | | love energy. When a person falls in love, we say, |
| modern science, it is not lost in scripture. For | | | | "He's beaming, glowing, radiant, vibrant, turned on." |
| example, in Song of Solomon 8:6-7, "Set me as a | | | | Thus we see, at some level, an aura which |
| seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: | | | | brightens in proportion to the increase in love. Holy |
| for love is strong as death; its jealousy unyielding | | | | people or saintly individuals are those who |
| as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a | | | | approach total love, and they are depicted with |
| mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love; | | | | bright auras or halos or surrounded by light. They |
| rivers cannot wash it away." | | | | also are known for their great joy, peace, and |
| Love's powerful effects are noticed but not | | | | bliss. |
| deciphered. Take for example a man who eats | | | | Biblical accounts describe scores of such holy |
| nothing but junk food, smokes, doesn't exercise, | | | | people who lived hundreds of years. This supports |
| drinks beer, sports a potbelly, and leads a | | | | the concept that love energy is the life force |
| stressful life. If he falls in love, suddenly he has | | | | itself or the healing energy. Need or desire, which |
| more energy than a person who lives on health | | | | is the exact opposite, roughly can be equated |
| food and exercises daily. What is the source and | | | | with what is called "sin," and we have read, "The |
| mechanism for this enormous flow of energy? | | | | wages of sin are death" or "Touch the forbidden |
| How can we harness it and use it at will? These | | | | fruit and you shall surely die." |
| questions are especially important in the health | | | | This is energy flowing in a direction opposite to |
| fields because this energy is also the healing | | | | the direction of flow of love energy or the life |
| energy, or the life force itself. | | | | force. It is multidimensional and represents both |
| A new definition helps make sense of this | | | | physical and spiritual death. Anger is the most |
| powerful but elusive and subtle energy: Love is an | | | | common emotion associated with heart attacks. |
| attention or energy directed outward, the | | | | Depression, which relates to need, not love, |
| by-product of which is happiness. The opposite is | | | | correlates with cancer. Stress, which is associated |
| need or desire, which is the same attention or | | | | with worry, correlates with hypertension, |
| energy directed back to the self, and the | | | | diabetes, and ulcers. This list could go on and on. |
| by-product of which is unhappiness. Reverse the | | | | We do not find a similar list of medical ailments |
| direction of flow of attention or energy and you | | | | that correlate with feelings of love. |
| have the opposite feeling. Fall in love and you are | | | | |