Decoding Love
71This hub and its links are always beng updated as new hubs surrounding the decoding of love are created
Introduction to Decoding Love
Since the beginning of my journey to decode love, I've come across many amazing and insightful realizations which I'm going to share with you here. In this particular hub I will open your eyes to the main beginnings of attraction such as Pheromones and chemicals the body produces that give you that feeling of love thats so addictive.
Table of Contents of Love topics decoded:
Definition of True Love, The Science of Passion, Intoxicating Kisses, Decoding Hickeys and cures, Decoding Loneliness, Decode Jealousy, Tribute to Love, Ride through the orgasms of love, Love thought potion, love yourself first then loving anyone else is easy, I see a future in us (song I wrote about love More coming every day!
I have linked you to several hubs I wrote to decode all the parts of this matrix called love, passion, loneliness, intoxicating kisses, jealousy, and more.. as I write new pieces of this puzzle I'll add them and link them here, so book mark this article/page and check back often.
I have at least a hundred more hubs to add that will break down and explain the many elusive concepts about love. I will write about everything from passion to sex, to relationships to tips and tricks to use on a date, to romance..
You can choose your topic and start your journey or just read this page here to start off with both feet planted on the ground. My goal is to make this your last stop in your research on the topic of love so you can relax and learn without all the stress of trying to find inforamtion on this topic. I've done extensive research and continue to so more and write hubs as I learn. Alot of the information in these hubs is based on experience as well, I've been there done that and these are my lessons for you to learn from.
This hub is a gateway to the entire matrix, but contains (following the explanation below) a hub all its own
Love is one complex creature and so it warrants some real research and explanation. This doesn't mean this has to be a long tedious and boring adventure. I've written hubs about love holographically, meaning I've attempted to nail all the different angles of love into several distinct and stand alone topics that all network to create the hologram of Love in all its glory.
Through the series of hubs all linked below you can learn at your leisure and pick your curriculum. I've made this as insightful and entertaining as I possibly could and included videos to really drive the information home for you. I hope you enjoy this journey as much as I loved creating it!
MY goal is empowerment through enlightening your sense of understanding and awareness about the world you live in. Feedback is very much appreciated and helps me make a better hub.
What is Love exactly?
Love at first sight.. Science fiction or Plausible?
I believe in love at first sight, but not literally, sight can be deceiving. Our own minds can deceive us by how we define what we see. Sight can be a limiting ideal; however the exception is in reading body language which I'll get into towards the end of this...
Love at first feeling now that's a great possibility. I believe and usually this happens in sights reach, that love at first sight really means you truly "SEE" the person, not so much there external beauty but their amazing beauty inside, a feeling you get when you come into contact with them and just know... a networking of the senses and common sense, the blast of pheromones into your olfactory that deepen the physical stimulation to your senses. Its to know but not realizing how that is frustrating I think.
Pheromones
The body, in a lot of places, most predominately the skin, excretes pheromones, an air born microbiological agent that is picked up by the opposite sex's olfactory.
The olfactory is a section inside the nose that determines the "shapes" of smells, you see smell is just shaped air born micro agents full of different shapes.
When the shapes of the airborne particles hit the tiny and very sensitive hairs inside our nose, the stimulus much like a tickle but encoded by the textures on the particle, are picked up and an electric signal that's converted into a chemical signal is sent to the brain and what the brain sends back is the sensations of smell. It works a lot like being romantically tickled. Some tickles allure our skin, and tantalite our kinesthetic senses, some raise "Goosebumps" and others are annoying or too much. We experience tickles as a signal much like the smell senses only the stimulus is different. Our senses aren't only for pleasure however they do other things like warn us.
A bad smell is essentially (in part) a very roughly shaped particle. A complex biochemical particle with negative effects on the body. Like how a sour taste is much different than a sweet taste. In the beginning plants that were poisonous to us had a bitter taste to stop us from harming ourselves but over the evolution of man we've become immune to certain poisons of plants and certain vegetables. We still taste the bitterness and this is why children don't like for example, Brussels sprouts, but adults do. The genius of this evolution however is that animals and bugs are still susceptible to the poisons negative effects so some of our food is safe from such predators yet we can safely eat it ourselves.
I mention this because part of what turns us on about our lover besides pheromones is smells that they are radiating, both naturally (Chemically like colognes or their natural scent) and unnaturally. Our body puts off odors that warn of a lot of things, tempers, lust, fear is a rank smell that dogs can smell but human beings only subconsciously process, but none the less its there.
Another sense that we become infatuated about another is touch.. Touch however is not limited to the realm of physical touching as we think of such as sex, kissing or the like. Touch can be the most stimulating of all because it encompasses ALL other senses both exporting (of signals and information from someone) and importing (receiving of their exported "signals").
Touch - The only True Sense. (Thank you Shawn Shrout for this insight)
The eyes see because light touches the iris, and the photoelectrical signals (light) are interpreted by the brain and converted into information fed to our perception of sight.
Touch in its popular definition is obvious. Kenesthetic signals are sent to the part of the body stimulated and converted into electrical signals interpreted by the brain and perceived as sensation.
Smell is the stimulation of airborne textured micro particles that "touch" the hairs inside the nose (part deep in the nose called the olfactory) and are decoded by electrical/chemical signals to the brain and interpreted by perception as aromas .
Hearing is moving air particles (sound is vibrations caused when air hits each other at different speeds) that vibrate the tiny hairs/sensors in your ear sending the vibration information as electrical signals to the brain the same way as sight and smell and touch.
Taste like smell and actually most commonly mixed with the sensations of smell, works the same way only the stimulation happens on your taste buds a more complex chemical process happens on the tongue. When we taste something we often also smell it as the olfactory is located very close to the inside of the mouth and the same particles that touch the tongue radiate as airborne particles that the olfactory pick up.
So now you know how the senses function lets get into how this all affects love.
Essentially pheromones are a much more advanced particle that the nose decodes, instead of merely shapes the pheromones you secrete contain biochemical agents that contain the DNA structure of the person, not really the DNA but essentially the same thing, pheromones are like biochemical hard drives that record an unbelievable amount of information about you as chemical signals (like a computer uses 1 and o or binary) and the nose contains a decoding devise that reads the code!
Its not so much literally giving you their background check as its encoding their chemical make up as contrasted to your own, this gives you a high degree of information that tells you if this person and you will get along, are sexually compatible and if you'd make a good offspring.
The fascinating chance meeting and Deja Vue! "The Have we met before? Because you seem really familiar but I can't quite put my finger on how I know you?"
Chemical encoding of the pheromones are sent out when the brain determines a potential mate is near. When you become attracted to someone your body starts to generate pheromones and goes on a projection spree. You radiate these particles up to three feet away and anyone within your radius gets hit..
Some times the particles fly into the nose other times they land on the other persons clothing and they smell them when they take their shirt off, rub their nose with their sleeve and so forth.
Your pheromones are very specific to you so if for example you passed someone and they got tagged with your pheromones and later they smelled them, then saw you again and this time caught a whiff of your airborne variety, a certain deja' vue feeling would come over them, and they would feel compelled to talk to you.
Based on the chemical information you receive from the other you make a subconscious choice to talk to them or not. If they caught your pheromones but didn't see you, but something wonderful from the smell came over them they would start thinking about the connection, the type of person that would make them feel good.
It's when they smell you again (your pheromones) that they connect this elusive insight they got out of the blue (pheromones have no smell that you can detect as aroma, so when they get this information it seems like a fleeting thought entered their head) and when they catch you again they connect you to an intuitive feeling they think they just had as you matching the template of "making them feel good" and conversation is initiated with the mystery of "I don't know how you affect me so much but you do".
Why are we attracted to the opposite sex?
Life at its most basic levels is about attraction so babies are made, its the way we propagate our species, our very survival depends on it. If the person would make a good mate their pheromones will tell you and you will feel a "Connection" this is what love at first sight really is, it's also why you can fall in love instantly, EVEN if the physical attraction isn't there!
Now that the pheromones have activated your sense of attraction what happens next?
From there, a whole other set of chemical reactions happen. A chemical cocktail is created that makes you feel "in love". Oxytocin and Dopamine are the major ones that stimulate love to the next level, where by emotions take over and thoughts, filters, and expectations are forged into the mind.
What sustains the "Love bug" is the other person's ability to make you happy, when they stick to the rules determined by the beginning of the relationship then love is everlasting and in fact gets stronger and stronger.
Oxytocin: The Bonding chemical
love is actually literally addictive, because of the Oxytocin (designed to keep you together long enough to produce a child) but life has become more complex and people have found ways to sustain the Oxytocin release much more.
This is not a bad thing its hard to keep up but very possible if you know how, what happens though is people get with people for the wrong reasons, and believe the lies, don't listen to their intuitions (pheromones, body language, subconscious gut feelings etc..) and they make themselves love someone because their gorgeous or they fulfill some romantic but ridiculous need fed to them by the media like if you don't have someone you'll die alone, or on valentines day people are led to feel lonely if they have no "sweetheart" to fill their day with love.
Thing is you always get the right "gut" feeling about them (based on a lot of variables such as body language decoding, pheromones, common sense, and experience) but your emotional responses (usually based on greed) overwhelm reason and there you are with another loser and blaming them for the relationship not working.)
When a bad relationship becomes a problem it feels impossible to leave them because the Oxytocin is flooding you so much now that your literally dependent on it (love becomes literally a chemical dependency.. hence the rebound effect is the equivalent to methadone for a heroin addiction!
Other problems start out mental and become chemically backed. People wrap there entire self esteem into it and convince themselves that being with this bad person for them makes them happy even if there miserable.
Time heals a broken heart
Time heals right? Why? Because over time you develop will power and distract yourself, thoughts of the person which were producing the Oxytocin chemical that makes you feel a need to connect with someone, fade, and eventually the Oxytocin stops producing and you get over the "love withdraws". As long as your convinced that the only way to feel better is to have them in your life the Oxytocin and those thoughts will trap you into that relationship.
If you can suffer the effects of mental reprogramming and chemical withdraws, you will get over them much faster than if you try to wean off them, or use them to escape the pain until they make you so mad over time that animosity overwhelms you with negative chemicals that literally make you sick and become more overwhelming than the Oxytocin withdraws.
The other person wasn't really the focus that you thought you had. You knew better really, but you had convinced yourself that you loved them because you based the entire relationship on the first 3 months!!! In those euphoric three months the chemical bonds are created and mentally backed and before you know it your mentally creating those chemicals in conjunction with being with them, and when they turn out to betray you the chemicals reinforce the psychological ideals around them and you literally lie to yourself about what you know is the truth so you don't feel bad, but unfortunately this imprisons you to being with an abusive, cheating or other bad for you kind of spouse or lover.
Body Language
Body language is 80% of our communication. Words don't mean anything if body language doesn't agree. In fact we see body language and then words, and the authoritive force is the body language.
You make determinations based on almost purely body language, i.e. subconsciously you have the entire rule book encoded in your DNA and when you see or talk to someone this gives you answers like are they lying, or are they full of crap, are they nice, or are they mean... Mixed with pheromones and body language you can fall in love at first sight but only chemically, real love develops with respect and true admiration of the person holistically. True love is powerful because it is empowering, it does not leech, it does not steal or pillage your mental state, it does not manipulate, it is all the forms of love (physically, chemically, and mentally (mind body spirit) working in unison to generate an amazing synergy.
If people just trusted their gut they would never fail to be happy. Some people have gotten a clue and started to listen to their instincts, there intuition. Some of us are born with this developed. I think being psychic is just paying attention, there's no magic to it, unless you don't get it..
I love the phrase "Technology Sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic" that one phrase tells all, technology is just information rather the understanding of information.. Knowledge is pure power, rather potential power, if you know all this and still do things against your "better judgment" well it holds no real usable power right?
Enter The Matrix of Love...
To help you focus on what each link takes you to heres a description of each hubs purpose:
The most impactful however is this Definition of True Love which some say is so compelling it feels like an altered state of mind while reading it.. The Science of Passion, and the other one on Intoxicating Kisses takes you deeper down the rabbit hole.
To avoid getting caught up in the "loneliness dating syndrome" fancy this article to help you not get stuck in a bad dating situation that you'll regret! ---> Decoding Loneliness
Just in case you two love birds do make it, let's avoid pitfalls shall we? What's the worst thing that can happen in a relationship? Jealousy.. so to prepare your mind for success in a relationship, Let's Decode Jealousy too The Jealousy hub has a bit in it about the "Lovers Body Language" which may help you as well.
Other ways to enjoy the decoding of love is through poetry and my hubs on decoding what real love feels like in these powerful eye opening explanations I take you intimately into a perfect relationship, these were my own relationships and how they felt, how love should be and what you can expect to feel when you "connect" perfectly with someone.
I write this "Tribute to Love" to describe the perfect love Format and this Ride through the orgasms of love and Love thought potion will help you visualize a perfect sustaining and passionate relationship. These also help you gain the correct mindset when looking for love.
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Comments
are you related to usher the singer? i love him. thanks for your article on love. i loved it.
No Usher copied me :) I was born first hehe.. I think? but I'm just as hot.. ya think? lol
On love I havent finished fixing my 8 hubs on love (more focused content) I'm backed into a corner in my personal life so I havent had much time to write and edit.. but their are alot coming.. better than this one I think.. thanx for your comments I appreciate them!
That isa great hub with alot of work put into action.
I agree with Paraglider
A few subheadings to make it more accessible wouldn't go amiss eithe.
Excellent thank you
Great hub. enjoied reading it and well done. Thumbs up for you
Love can really be taxing cant it.
yes it can, but I believe it what we don't comprehend about love that causes all our problems! my whole reason for writing these was to decode it myself for myself then about 10 long blogs later I realized what a topic? I could help others find the same peace (so right now their written but being edited for focus and what not).. thank you for reading!
I knew pheromones were the key to sexual attraction but have never heard the idea that they also contain information on non-physical attributes such as likes, dislikes etc. If they are so informative, why then do so many of us keep making mistakes in our choice of partner?
My own experience is that when I’ve had that instant ‘buzz’, it has usually ended in disaster, because I’ve gotten involved without considering whether we have shared values, beliefs and interests – which, it turns out, we usually don’t. My most successful relationships have developed from friendship due to those shared values or interests. We all know stories of women who fall for the “mad, bad and dangerous to know” kind of man, who has an irresistible sexual charisma, so I’m not the only one who misreads the pheromones! Interested to hear your take on why that happens.
this is a fascinating hub. I look forward to your continued writing.
Marissa, I'll go deeper into this in my decoding love chemical reactions of love hub (I've written 36 pages on the first one Love's Infrastructure (which I know I'll need to siphon off alot of it into the respective hubs..
Anyway, pheromones.. I read in several places that they contain a sort of blue print of your current habits, likes and temperaments, but not like your thinking I meant it, its not so much in the idea of words but more so in a chemical reaction that lends insight to. Think of it like this.. your chemical make up vs their pheromones = a sort of two tone list the pro and the cons list, your body sort of filters the chemical signatures "recipes" and categorizes them with logic and "feelings" or pure intuition, then this data is passed to the subconscious (and processed in a way to send you a yay or nay signal)
you then get a "vibe" of this person and most people ignore this vibe due to their over focus on judging what they want (instead of letting love come to them thereby not judging but receiving real information about their date, and in a non focused state this information can be compiled and dealt with (body language included)
also you don’t consciously process that they like turkey or are lazy, but you get a consolidated signal of if they would be compatible with your current idea of what you like, and more importantly if they would be a good mate, and bare good kids and be a protective father/husband, remember everything is about procreation of the species! Most women pick a mate for many other reasons than natures reasons but being designed to procreate our desires/needs don’t always go in line with our natural birth right to find a mate and procreate and so on.. so when the signal for the “right” guy comes it may be there with mr wrong because he would make a natural mate but not good guy by your standards of what you “want”
well for a quick answer its alot like how telepathy is not words in yoru head its pictures, more on this later, as for :
why then do so many of us keep making mistakes in our choice of partner?
that’s easy, how many men choose a woman by her sex appeal not her attitude? how often do men lose their rational thinking KNOWING that shes a complete Bi** because they are thinking with the other head, it boils down to knowing but ignoring due to your desires or dreaming about things not even feasible..
women often want something so focused and unrealistic in a man that when one shows some, any traits of being a real gentlemen (even if their intuition tells them differently they talk themselves out of believing it) but the attraction, which is judged by the chemical reactions to the pheromones
(which are like chemical data bases designed much like smells (in the way their processed from shapes (transmission of data) into electrical signals interpreted by the brain, only this is a chemical reaction with much more sophistication)
at any rate, bottom line is if we just listened to our intuition which in the case of pheromone "reading" is alot to do with subconscious reasoning surfacing to conscious thought processes, we'd not make the mistakes we make..
to answer this question in more detail one of my hubs contains the explanations of fantasy or commercial love and how it changes our paradigm about love which negatively focuses our attention to the wrong dictionary of meanings..
how we define what were doing changes everything, perception is reality.. wrong idea means we ignore data we receive, or misinterpret it..
its why people get so confused in love.. its the difference in information they recieve (from all their sense) vs the real information they get from intuition processing (subconcious) the data like pheromones and body language etc..
do you see how complex this gets..?
Your Hub stimulated me to do some research of my own, and from what I could find, there still seems to be a fair bit of disagreement (and guessing, otherwise known by scientists as theorising!) on the role of pheromones. My own gut feeling - and not being a scientist, that's all it is - is that pheromones are something we share with animals, and therefore their function is likely to be more primitive, helping us choose a mate on the basis of fitness for reproduction - i.e. physical strength, resilient immune system etc.
So in fact it's pheromones that are responsible for women's instinctive attraction to the “dangerous” guy, because he has those aggressive survival attributes. But as we’ve become higher animals, we want more than just a brute who can kill the lion that’s attacking the camp. We want a mental connection as well.
But because romance novels tell us we have to feel that "spark", we often dismiss the guy that we feel comfortable with. It’s a sensible woman who realises that the guy she runs to when her latest romance breaks up, or who’s always there to mend a fuse or move house, might just be the guy she SHOULD be hooking up with.
very good! Yes alot of things about pheromones are in dispute.. but I believe their is alot of truth in it too..
i think you could lose a good lesson in the different uses of "there", "their", and "they're". Among other things. I think your ideas are very interesting but excruciating to read due to glaring grammatical mistakes. This is not even about being nitpicky...for someone who knows the difference between these different words, it really confuses the meaning of what you are trying to say. Pick up a grammar book or take a class and please revise your hubs so they are easier to read!! Thanks!!
This particular hub was only a starter hub, it was literally transcribed from an email I sent someone unedited, I put it there the first day I started hubpages to see what the publishing feature was like, It is however being replaced by the real decoding love module I just finished writing but am waiting for a friend to finish reading it before I publish it.. I know how to use their there, tell me do you see this mistake in other hubs?








Paraglider says:
5 months ago
Hey - you've got tons of stuff in there, but I really think you could focus a bit more. A few subheadings to make it more accessible wouldn't go amiss either. Welcome to Hubpages!