Your pupils dilate when you see the person you are attracted to. Because the nervous system controls the muscles of the irises, the response of the nervous system to different stimuli results in involuntary pupil dilation. Another commonly cited reason the pupils dilate is in response to excitement or sexual arousal. When a person sees something or someone they find very attractive, their eyes may dilate.  Why do pupils dilate? When you are attracted to someone, you try to take them in in all ways—your mind is more open, your heart is more open…naturally, your body’s senses respond as well. Your eyes dilate to take in more light, to try to perceive as sharply as possible the details of your loved one, to try to absorb every photon of light possible emanating from them. Your nostrils flare to take in every smell and scent wafting from them. Your skin grows slightly more sensitive, your hairs stand on end, to try to pick up every contact, every brush of themselves against you… It is simply your entire being, physical and metaphysical, opening up to another.

Your pupils dilate when you see the person you are attracted to. Because the nervous system controls the muscles of the irises, the response of the nervous system to different stimuli results in involuntary pupil dilation. Another commonly cited reason the pupils dilate is in response to excitement or sexual arousal. When a person sees something or someone they find very attractive, their eyes may dilate. 


Why do pupils dilate? When you are attracted to someone, you try to take them in in all ways—your mind is more open, your heart is more open…naturally, your body’s senses respond as well. Your eyes dilate to take in more light, to try to perceive as sharply as possible the details of your loved one, to try to absorb every photon of light possible emanating from them. Your nostrils flare to take in every smell and scent wafting from them. Your skin grows slightly more sensitive, your hairs stand on end, to try to pick up every contact, every brush of themselves against you…

It is simply your entire being, physical and metaphysical, opening up to another.

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Love: a Physical Perspective

What is love? Tough question. So, an easier question: what are the physical aspects of love?

When you love someone or something, your brain uses a portion of the energy available to your body to (at the very least) remember it. Of the billions of bits of information available to be learned and remembered, nerve cells are set aside and energy consumed as your brain sets up a neural pattern that will recognize the one you love, and incorporates your love of this person into your physical being.

Having your neural network slowly altered, your thought patterns will flow along these new neural pathways (just as they do with all the other neural pathways). As a result, some thoughts will dwell on the one you love. More energy and time is spent focusing on your loved one; in a sense, you have given a small bit of your life in reverence to the one you love.

Thinking often begets action, and always colors it. Loving someone thus affects the energy used by your entire physical being (which furthermore affects your life). Because your actions are affected, your immediate surroundings are affected as well. As everything ultimately affects everything else (even if it is solely through increasing the entropy in the universe), your love will nudge the balance of the universe.

All this, just because you love someone.

So, what is the physical aspect of love? It is burning energy to reinforce a relationship to something outside of your physical being. It is incorporating that of another into yourself, and projecting that back outward from yourself.

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