LACK OF LOVE HURTS
What strengthens our self-healing powers and how to be healthier and happier

Drawing on how the brain works, the author explains in an amazingly simple and compelling way how much our capacity for self-healing is suppressed by unloving behavior towards ourselves and others.

• How our brain contributes to let's stay healthy or let's get up again healthy?
• Why the lack of love has such a big impact on our health?
• Why not just we hold in a way that would be healthier for us?
• Can we learn to live healthy again?

Gerald Hütter offers an effective and easy-to-follow path that anyone can take today to find their way out of the sickening chaos of our time.

Interview with Prof. Dr. Gerald Hütter

Dr. Huether, you are a brain researcher. How does our brain contribute to staying physically healthy or getting healthy again?

The most important task of our brain is not to think, but to control the processes that take place in the body. It usually does this all the time and ensures that everything that happens in the body is coordinated as well as possible. As long as this mechanism works, we stay healthy, and if something in the body goes out of control, the brain triggers the corresponding countermeasures and protective reactions and we become healthy again. This is what doctors call self-healing ability.

Why does the lack of love affect our health so much?

We are deeply social creatures. We need other people and we are born with the need for connection and human closeness. If we are treated unlovingly, this basic need is violated. Confusion then occurs in the brain, and also in the areas responsible for regulating and maintaining the health of our body, which takes a lot of energy. Then they no longer function so well. This is why people get sick when they are treated without love.

So why don't we just behave in a way that would be healthier for us?

All people direct their thinking, feelings and actions, and hence their behavior, to achieve what they find meaningful. It is obvious that there are quite a few people for whom prestige, success, wealth and power are more important than their health. If they commit to being more loving to themselves, they will inevitably be more loving to others. Then, of course, they will no longer be able to use others for their own purposes; and everything they have struggled for in their lives will lose its meaning. People are afraid of it, and for that reason they continue to live as before, even if it makes them sick.

Can we then learn to behave in such a way as to be healthy again?

Of course we could, our brains are capable of learning throughout our lives. Once we have formed beliefs about what is important in life, they can be discarded at any time and replaced with more favorable ideas. But a person will accept such a change only if he really wants it deep inside. Therefore, it is impossible to change other people. But we could invite and encourage them to be more loving towards themselves.

Source: "Herder" publishing house, Germany