The most unique love of all is like a magical glue holding all things together, exudes the universe with its rich perfume, and pours out its healing virtues! Which kind is it?
Millions are celebrated Valentine’s Day, a holiday (February 14); when people express their love and affection with greetings and gifts. The holiday has origins in the Roman festival of Lupercalia, held in mid-February. The Western Christian feast day honors an early Christian martyr named Saint Valentine and, through later folk traditions, has become a significant cultural, religious, and commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions of the world.
This celebration over time is commemorated and expressed by people from all walks of life. Parents, children, siblings, friends, lovers, colleagues, families, and many others celebrate Valentine’s Day.
The ancient Greeks came up with four different kinds of love: Eros, Storge, Phileo, and Agape:
Eros Love: The love that hits hard is sensual, passionate love known as eros. It is unpredictable, strong, and hard. We often think the love between a man and woman is the highest form of love and nothing can break it. They say, “Love is as Strong as Death.”
Eros love is a passionate and intense love that arouses romantic feelings. This love is almost like keeping you high on a drug! In this love, your brain releases chemicals that create euphoria, which can occur at various times throughout your cycle of love. You suddenly develop an interest in new things that interest the person you love. You actually feel sick or lose your appetite. Being lovesick is a scientific phenomenon. If you notice your heart racing, your hands getting sweaty, your stomach filling with flutters that kind of makes you feel nauseous.
The stimulation of adrenaline and norepinephrine is legitimately something that happens to most of us when we are in love. You could also think you have caught a virus, but you may have just caught the love bug! You may also experience symptoms like appetite loss and feeling kind of nauseous. You may be grinning and smiling a lot. You suddenly want to be intimate with the person you love. Your heart may skip a beat when you think about the one you love, but a study showed that you may also be beating in time with each other.
A study conducted by the University of California, Davis, suggests that couples’ hearts begin to beat at the same rate when they fall in love. As all of us are different, the way we express love is too and the way we experience it too is different. You may find yourself daydreaming of the person you love, all the time. You will want to learn all the things they like.
It is studied that the pain threshold is higher too and even looking at the photo of the one you love may lessen the physical pain in your body! You may be in constant awe of their uniqueness. Everything they do is wonderful and you can never find anything wrong with them!
We can say it also transcends the natural laws of science. People in love also suffer separation anxiety and fears that the one they love will leave them. Fear makes eros love take extreme actions and people can die for it, taking away their own lives or their lover’s life.
It is frighteningly powerful, and if this love is stirred in an opposite waveform, it can sometimes stunningly transform to hate. Done in the right way, it can last forever.
Storge Love: This is a kind of family and friendship love, which is also a parent-child love. This is strongly committed love. After all, who can love better than our parents? Yet, even our parental love and family love may not be perfect. Storge love may not be the most powerful love of all. It is known of parents to even hurt their own children and vice versa. In all its beauty, it is not the strongest love.
Phileo Love: This is an affectionate, warm platonic love, which constitutes friendships. This is good friendship care and love. We know friends can fail us and people change according to situations and circumstances.
Agape Love: Some people would describe it as “connecting with your higher self.” This love connects with the universe and connects with the divine. In connecting with the source of love, and loving the Infinite One, the Creator, divine love pours back to us. It elevates us to a higher plateau of love as we get charged up with divine energy and love.
This transaction is supernatural and supersedes all the different kinds of love. If humans chose to love others this way, they will be following the highest form of religion. It is said without love, it is impossible to know God. Scientific experiments have revealed even plants and flowers respond and flourish to a kind voice talking to them.
We need Divine love to flow through us in order to live higher greater lives. Agape Love will stand the test of time and enable us to love and care for each other with deeper commitments, feelings, and emotions change but Agape Love charged powerfully from Divinity grows more with time.
We need more people in the world to love with Divine Agape love to heal the world of its hatred, negative vibes, religious anathema, bigotry, divisions to reverse it to powerful positives energy. In the dimension of divine love, we can have the most powerful love force going on that will defeat any hate and negative vibes! Focus on this love on Valentine’s Day, and always. This is the highest form of love that will sustain all love together and transform the universe. The world needs this magical glue-like love to hold it together!