The Impact of Love

In 1993, when I was completing my masters in social work, I commented to one of my professors that they had taught me many fine tools and, with the addition of love, they all worked very well, without that addition none of them did.  Tonight I was reading in “National Geographic” about brain development in infants and it is clear that the same applies.  Love, connection and nurturing, though non-physical, has a very real and physical impact on  development.  Love, connection and nurturing also, except in a very simplistic way, do not fit within the paradigm of scientific studies or the experimental method.  However, they are very real, we just cannot understand them in that way.