Definition Essay: The Relationship Between Love And The New Brain

Meaning that each love has its own unique relationship because each individual person has different things to offer to the one they love. This article also allows me to explore my question on love, if there shouldn’t be any “putting yourself first” in a relationship and the wrongness of it. This article makes a statement that in a relationship there shouldn’t be any of that, “such a possibility does not include illusions of self-importance or compulsive anxiety management or dependence. The less needy we are, the greater our ability to love. Contrary to our evolutionary aims, love for others is, ideally, not about us, but about the loved one. And in a truly loving relationship, as this story goes, that other person is encouraged to develop …show more content…
The new brain is the developing one, one who is modern you can say and the old brain is in fear because of people’s past experiences on love so that is why a person is in search for a new partner to cure that pain or past experiences. The author defines a relationship with a consciousness partner as the following” a consciousness partnership is a relationship that fosters maximum psychological and spiritual growth; it’s a relationship created by becoming consciousness and cooperating with the fundamental drives of the uncousioness mind- to be safe, to be healed, and to be whole” (Hendrix, 88). Meaning that you are a partner that has a brain that is good, safe, healed, and whole because of your new partner who heals you from past love experiences. The author goes into the characteristics of being a consciousness partner or becoming one. There are ten characteristics of a consciousness partner or becoming one, the first: “realizing that your love has a given purpose, makes me wonder what purpose doe the author mean? Second: creating a more accurate image of