Love and Healing

Source of information: Helpful Alternative Medicine

Love and good relationships could make a remarkable difference to your health. When people are totally in love they feel energized, recharged, and invincible. Look at these studies that illustrate the power of love:

• After monitoring 1200 elderly for 3 years, Swedish researchers found that those who had satisfying social ties were 40 % less likely to develop dementia than those who had fewer social relationships.

• A study of heart patients at Duke University found that those who were without a spouse or confidant were 3 times as likely to die within 5 years of diagnosis than those who are married or have close friends.

• In another study of how good social relationships could reduce the amount of stress, Glaser found that caregivers of Alzheimer patients who had good social support showed stronger immune response than those who did not.

• In Yale University, a study of 194 heart attacks patients found that patients who claimed to have emotional support were 3 times more likely to be alive 6 months after the attack than the one without it.

• At Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, researchers dripped cold viruses into the nose of 276 volunteers who were later quarantined to see the effect of emotional support in human. Volunteers who had a wide range of friends had only a quarter of the chance of getting a cold compared to those who have smaller number of social ties.

Through love Bitter things become sweet. Through love Dregs taste like pure wine. Through love Pains are healed.

Rumi

"Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when
we touch them with compassion."
~ Buddha

"To heal from the inside out is the key."
~ Wynonna Judd

"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."

~ Hubert H. Humphrey

"Eventually you will come to understand that
love heals everything, and love is all there is."
~ Gary Zukav

"Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels,
simply by pouring out love.
Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy ."
~ Sai Baba

"Love cures people – both the ones who give it and
the ones who receive it."
~ Karl A. Menninger

“Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives."
~ Louise L. Hay.