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suppressed. These lower serotonin levels are the same as those found in people with obsessive-compulsive disorders, possibly explaining why those in love
"obsess" about their partner.
Love Junkies

There are those who may be addicted to that love "high." They need that amphetamine-like rush of dopamine, norepinephrine and phenylethylamine. Because
the body builds up a tolerance to these chemicals, it begins to take more and more to give love junkies that high. They go through relationship after relationship
to get their fix.

We Express Love Through the Power of Attraction

Within the brain, every mental activity consists of neutrons (electrically neutral subatomic particles) firing in a certain sequence. An "Attractor" is an
association of links that can overwhelm weaker ones. The limbic brain (i.e. the emotional brain) contains its emotional attractors, encoded early in life. If the
early experience of a limbic network reflects healthy emotional experience, its attractors will serve as reliable guides to the world of workable relationships.

In human beings, an attractor's influence is not confined to its mind of origin. The limbic brain sends energy of emotion, in this case love, outward. Limbic
resonance joins human minds together in a continuous exchange of energy signals and every brain is part of the network that shares information.

Limbic Attractors exert energy not only within the brain that produces them, but also on the limbic networks of others, calling compatible memories,
emotional states and styles to each of them. Through the limbic transmission of emotional energy, a person can attract others into his emotional world. All of
us, when we engage in this transmission and receiving of emotional energy, can fall under the influence of another's emotional mind.

The limbic transmitting of Attractors makes personal identity more malleable. The people to whom we are attached provoke part of our everyday neural
activity. Ongoing exposure to one person's Attractors does not just activate neural patterns in another, it also strengthens them. Long-standing togetherness
writes permanent changes into a brain's neural pathways.

The astonishing legacy of the human race is limbic revision, the power to rewire the emotional parts of the people we love, as our attractors activate certain
limbic pathways, and the brain's memory mechanism reinforces them.

Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.

Pheromones

Romantic love begins with attraction. You begin your romantic relationship when there is that feeling of attraction. But why are we attracted to some people Page308
and not to others? Let’s examine the role played by pheromones.