Love — The Heart of Each Other
Everything is done for love of something or someone. True feelings of Aloha are simply this. Even bad things are done because of misplaced love. Love gone missing from damaged people. Unloved children. Normal emotions confused with addiction to objects, substances, power. All expressions of the need for love. A momentary “high,” confused with life-sustaining love. Addiction. Shopping, sex and extreme sports also trigger bursts of brain chemicals that are addicting. Love is a positive requirement for the heart in the same way that oxygen is. We need it to live, grow and thrive. Virginia Satir, a pioneering family therapist, said, “We need four hugs a day for survival, eight for maintenance, 12 to grow and [...]