By Salome Akpan

People believe there is no love but others tend to look at what love is and its benefits

We have seen that love affairs can reduce stress, anxiety, and depression, a fact that can boost the immune system.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found that people who display positive emotions are less likely to get sick after exposure to cold or flu viruses.

When we appreciate love, we are not only willing to sacrifice ourselves for others and support them through thick and thin, but we also realize that there is nothing wrong with being vulnerable. Those tires are unique. Society tends to associate love with family.

What love is and its benefits

WHAT IS LOVE?

Right from time memorial, we keep hearing the word “love” on a daily basis and almost everywhere we go and in every corner we find ourselves. We hear people mention love in our everyday environment and the yardstick used in measuring love that is and will be beneficial to us.

The school takes it as an important topic and revolves around how we can relate to people, make people feel our impact, and touch people’s lives. The school environment is a great place where love should strive in all aspects, irrespective of gender, age, class, or origin.

The religious organization is not left behind from emphasizing love almost at every gathering, the pastor talks about love almost in all of his messages. He keeps re-emphasizing it as one of the important needs we need to take seriously by emulating Jesus’ footsteps. Yes, Jesus is a good example and we can’t deny the fact that he is a good leader to follow.

Love is a complex thing that involves deep feelings of emotion towards someone, something, an event, or people. It is a behavior and custom associated with strong feelings of affection, protectiveness, warmth, and respect for another. Love encompasses a wide range of character shaping, attitudinal molding, and inculcation of moral and ethical values so as to be able to portray that feeling and emotions.

Love does not hide and you can not keep it covered. Even if you do, it will unravel as time travels. There is commitment, worthiness, happiness, blessing, and good success in love, loving someone and extending love to people can open ways to blessings and doors to promotion, as love comes in to shape one’s mind and orientation in regards to how we see and view people and things. Love is a beautiful thing that we need to see and share with other people through our actions, communication, way of life, and our way of relating with others.

BENEFITS OF LOVE.

The various benefits of love can not be overemphasized, the benefits of love varies and it comes in different forms and way we might not even notice or give a thought about. The various benefits of love include:

HAPPINESS

Love happens to be one of the key predictors of happiness. This is not just limited to romantic love with a spouse, it extends to the love we have for friends, family, and even our colleagues. The most outstanding benefit of love in regard to happiness is that it is reciprocated. And when the love you give out is reciprocated, it brings you happiness and a subtle amount of satisfaction. Happiness in love is something people should get naturally and crave in the journey of life, being able to relate peacefully with others brings happiness and joy. Have you ever wondered how your neighbors each time you people sit down at night to listen to folktales, and the laughter that erupted from each of the jokes? That’s love and you need to give it out unconditionally.

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FRUITFULNESS

Fruitfulness is one of the keys definition of love: “It is the nature of love to extend, overflow, grow and bear good fruits. love is a very fruitful way of living that is not confined wholly to the loving interchange of husband and wife; it also strives to go beyond this to bring new life into being. ‘Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Fruitfulness in love goes beyond the procreation of children to business expansion and recommendation, because it takes only love for someone to recommend you or your business to others. At times you keep wondering why your neighbor’s shop keeps expanding every day and then attribute it to charms or sort of. No, some people might have been building a great relationship with others without restricting it to only close or family members. At the end of it, they keep getting people who recommend them and their businesses to others.

GOOD SUCCESS

A whole lot of things and perspectives have changed, and showing love to people and colleagues at work is essential to upward mobility at work. For over time, people thought love was not necessary at the workplace, that all you just need to do is to go to work, get paid, aim for promotion, and that’s it. But the truth is, things have changed and people now give accounts on your behalf which could give ways for your promotion or demotion, If you want to continue to grow and be successful in your professional and personal life, then you need to create an environment of love in your workplace and within your colleagues. If you are pushing it so hard at work that you have no friends or people you relate with on the good ground, you have to sit back and have to rethink your life. Success on paper isn’t the same if you’re lonely at the top. In fact, it may not feel like a success at all.

GOOD HEALTH

This is one of the key benefits of love we seem not to pay attention to. Health and good health in particular are underrated, people seem not to rate them and give them the needed visibility and rating. It is of no use trying to hate on anybody or people who might have just been going their way and doing their normal routine without knowing that you are harboring hatred towards them. These people are just living their free life like every other person with good health and happiness. Yet for you, you are allowing yourself to be swallowed by hatred and bad intentions. You are likely not to be living in good health while you have bad intentions about others, open up your mind to good things, free your heart from hatred, embrace peace and love, then watch how your health becomes better than when you were harboring something bad against another person.

CONFIDENCE

Love is an ideal booster of self-confidence and opens room for healthy criticism. Self-confidence is your manner and behavior regarding your skills and abilities. Self-confidence means that you accept and trust yourself and have a sense of control in your life, and this can only be achievable when you have a love for people and for yourself. You know your strengths and weaknesses so well, and you have a positive view of yourself. You set realistic expectations and goals, communicate assertively, and can handle criticism from people who might want to get you back on track when it seems like you are going far away from your goals.

It is one thing to know about love and its benefits, it is another thing to extensively portray, live and be that love for the purpose of your own good and for the good of others around you. If you grow up in an environment where there is no love, and unhealthy competition is the order of the day, you need to stand out and set examples, don’t give room to hatred and negative thinking, don’t allow anything to corrupt your mind from being the love that you need. I bet you, in no distant time, people will have no other option than to give in to your way of life and your newfound way of happiness. Don’t forget to show people, love, it is therapeutic and necessary in all our everyday doing