
23/09/2025
You ever notice how fast the body reacts to conflict? One word, one look, and suddenly your chest is tight, your stomach twists, your breath is gone. Ayurveda calls this Vata stirring prana, the life force thrown off balance, like a candle flame in the wind.
And science explains this too. The amygdala in your brain is like an alarm bell. It doesn’t pause to ask questions. It floods your body with adrenaline and cortisol in seconds. That’s fight or flight. It kept our ancestors alive when tigers were chasing them. But today, it can be set off by nothing more than an argument at the dinner table.
Love doesn’t move that way. Love lives in Ojas, the deep strength and sweetness of the body. It builds slowly, like honey gathering drop by drop. Biologically, love comes through oxytocin, serotonin, those chemicals of safety and trust. They don’t explode like cortisol. They require time. And so love feels slower, harder to catch because it must be cultivated.
That’s why it’s easy to feel bad fast, and harder to feel love quickly. Fear is a reflex. Love is a practice. But practice changes the reflex. Every slow breath, every act of kindness, every moment of stillness invites sattva and harmony back into the body. And over time, love becomes just as natural, just as immediate, as fear once was. One is a reflex, the other is a practice.
So remember, fear is fast because it’s survival. Love is slow because it’s sacred. And what is sacred must be tended, until one day it becomes the ground you live on, not the peak you’re always trying to climb 🙏🏽🌸
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