Love : Heart or Brain

"Love is an intense feeling of deep affection"

Did anyone ever wonder why the poor human organ "heart" is related to the terms love, affection, happiness, attraction, and all the other forms of intense feelings? Does the heart actually think and feel?

Most of us know the heart as an organ which pumps purified blood to all other parts of our body. But when the topic love comes up, we hear everyone telling sentences like "From the bottom of my heart...", " My heart beats for you...", etc. Why is it that there is a mention of the heart whenever the topic of love is discussed. It is indeed an interesting topic to wonder about.

People often call the heart as an innocent, blind creature. I do not know how far that is true. But what I do know is that the human heart is greedy. Yes, greedy for love. It needs love. When it gets love, it needs more love, and then more and more. That is why most of the people often fall in love, and the sad part of their story is that they often tend to be on the giving side, and not the receiving side. Either way, their hearts are giving love, or receiving love.

Talking about love, it is an intense feeling of deep affection. I am talking about loving a person, and not other aspects of love. How many of us actually think that it is in our hearts that we love someone? Well, you can keep your views. Lets go deeper into reality.

There are three parts, or sections, of our brain. The concious mind, the unconscious mind, and the subconscious mind. Let me brief you about the three. We will, for now, focus mainly on the subconscious mind as it is often blamed for every belief, and every feeling that you hate, or love.

The conscious mind consists of everything inside of our awareness. This is the aspect of our mental processing that we can think and talk about in a rational way.
The unconscious mind (or the unconscious) consists of the processes in the mind that occur automatically and are not available to introspection, and include thought processes, memory, affect, and motivation.

And now, coming to the subconscious mind: Think of the subconscious mind as the storage room of everything that is currently not in your conscious mind. The subconscious mind stores all of your previous life experiences, your beliefs, your memories, you skills, all situations you've been through and all images you've ever seen.

That might probably give you an information on the three main parts of our brains. Now, how is it related to love and heart? Well, the thing is, heart is never related to love according to me. It is just an misterm to the subconscious mind in the aspect of love. Heart is an organ which pumps blood, and in any way cannot be compared to the brain, which not only has to ability to control every processes in our body, but also an super power to think logically.

Then, why was it associated with love?  It seems to me that when most people say "heart" when referring to love, they are mostly talking about an obscure unseen part of them that houses their emotions. In the west, we consider the mind (or the intellect) and the heart to be two separate things. This, I'm pretty sure, comes from classical Greek philosophy, such as Plato and Aristotle. However, in ancient Hebrew, for example, as I understand it there was only one word for both the place in a human for the intellect and emotions, which is typically translated in the Bible as the "spirit," and that was what they associated with love.

So I guess the idea of "heart and love" is pretty much clear now to everyone who read this post. Now the main question, how is love a quest for more?

Did anyone fall in love? Most of them did, and those who didn't, will probably fall soon. Had anyone noticed that once we are in love, we want more and more love? Heartbreaks are often sure in most of the cases, but still, we do manage to move on and continue living life with love. How does that occur? Why do we still believe in love deep down in our brains, when we are actually heart broken from the top?

Well, the point is, our subconscious mind readily believes in love. And you cannot change anything in your subconscious mind until you bypass the conscious mind. We will go deeper into that condition later, for now lets keep them at the bay.

"Live life with love, or else you die everyday."

 That said, it is more easy to win hearts by love than by hatred, right? I guess I answered most of the questions through this post. Well, now its up to you to decide whether you will continue to associate the heart with love or not. According to me, lets just pretend we do not know the truth and continue linking the heart with love.

After all, who likes "I love you from the deeper part of my brain" than "I love you from the bottom of my heart"? 

Sources : Wikipedia, Yahoo! Answers

Curses : The Ugly Truth

"Curses can be defined as an verbal threat leading to an undefined action."

Let's now get inside the working of a curse. Most of the people curse when they find themselves helpless and utterly irritated due to some defined cause. Curse is just an verbal set of words which threaten to cause pain in the life of the listener. Well, that's pretty much obvious, no one curses when they are happy!

But had anyone taken an initiative to see how far deep this goes? Does an curse really work? If yes, then how? And if no, then why not? It is indeed an interesting topic to debate on. Well, since ages all the saints and sadhus have been cursing the people they hate. But did the curse actually show its black magic or was it the sins of the people which turned the coarse around? Now, the sins also open up a new topic to be debated on. Let's just hang on with the curses for now.

I honestly do not think a bunch of words can cause pain in one's life. But there have been people cursing, and there have been people affected by it. There certainly had to be an inner, or should I say, a deep connection which is yet to be cleared that causes the curse to work, if at all it does.

Now let's get deeper into this thought. When you curse someone with full anger, it causes all your negative vibes to collect in one place and released in to the body of the victim. And if at all curses do work, this might be one of the all possible reasons for the same. And as the law of nature states, thoughts attract what we think, the more negative you get, the more negative vibes you attract. That said, it can be debated that what affect does the victim's thoughts have on the curse given to him/her. Interestingly, the victim has a better control over his life than the person who is trying to take control. So, if the victim manages to generate more positive vibes, the law of attraction will obviously come to the picture and that would help the victim to escape the curse. Trust me, it's all theory.

And how far is my theory right or wrong, lets leave it to the thinkers. Let us get back to the definition that I had stated at the beginning of this post.

"Curses can be defined as an verbal threat leading to an undefined action."

Yes, they are indeed verbally said. I call them threat because it develops a fear in the minds of the victim. It can also be called an undefined action because I do not think there is any action which is taking place. The closest relative to a curse so far remains a threat. A threat is a verbal saying which may or may not lead to action. But, a curse is a verbal saying that is just said. Threat and curses are often misjudged. Threatening someone means that you may or may not let the action take its path. But, when you curse someone, do you think you are actually going to ruin his/her life? That is my question, does curses actually work?

The law of nature tells us that we are the only ones who can control our lives, and we are the only ones who can actually change our lives. And according to deep research, your life is totally a reflection of what you were thinking all this while. If you were thinking to be an criminal, you might end up becoming one. Or if you were among those backbenchers who were thinking some creative stuff other than paying attention on the lessons thought, you might land up becoming the second Steve Jobs!

Taking the law of nature into consideration, no nature has given any one a right to control your life. Even the genie from Alladin, tells us that he can do anything except make a person fall in love against their will. So, if you be a more open minded, I think you can definitely not allow a curse to take control of your life. I do not think science will ever be able to prove the theory of curses right or wrong, because science is basically developed on the bases of proofs, and here, its no proof, just theory all around!

The more I think about this, the more curious I become. Did you ever think black magics work? Is it just an illusion? I have no idea. That was the best answer you could come up with, right? If I was you, I wouldn't let anyone's curses affect my life. After all, no one can control my life but me. I am the god in my life and I think my life is a reflection of each and every thing I ever thought and wanted. Now, guys, its up to you to decide how much of this post is true. I gave my piece of objectives that make me think that curses do not work.

Its all theory, folks!