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G. Understanding of Emotional Space of Love
Threat vs. Fear
A threat is a real object that presents a risk to life(like a snake) as fear is an imaginary emotional brain’s predictive visuals, both of which transfer’s brain’s control to the Amygdala of the limbic brain, and make the physiology to fight and flight mode where hormone norepinephrine, and adrenaline increases.
Why Fear is important?
Because a child in the womb doesn’t have any primary sensory data besides some sounds it picks up. So, without the brain creating visuals of fear, adrenaline will never increase and the child will never try to come out of the womb. So, once the labor pain starts, the child starts seeing fearful dreams and pushes hard to come out.
When the child finally comes out, it cries, because the visual dreams and attached scream are both genetically wired. The crying of the child opens up the lungs, which stayed shrunk during pregnancy as the child got Oxygen from the placenta and needed no lungs in the water.
Satisfaction
When the mother finally holds the child, the child becomes happy. Note that up to 21 days, the child can not distinguish between dream and reality. During pregnancy, the way the mother sees a dream of a child is the same way the child sees the dream of a mother. Because of the physiological coupling and mirror neurons, the mother’s emotions of satisfaction(which is the hormone serotonin) are translated into the child. So the child feels happy and satisfied.
This satisfaction, transfers the body’s autonomic nervous system, from flight and fight mode to rest-and-recovery mode, releasing a lot of GABA(Gamma Beuteric Acid Hormone), which shuts down the brain, activating Melatonin secretion from pineal glands, and the child falls asleep. Melatonin is also our anti-oxidant network, which removes oxidative stress.