Receiving Love

by Gary Wilde, Brian Newman, Drian Newman, et al.

Is it impossible to love and be loved? No, but in order to experience love - nurturing, unconditional love, the kind of love you were created for - you first have to be able to receive love. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564765393
• ISBN13: 9781564765390
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Chariot Victor Publishing
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful book about the nature of love.

I purchased this book after reading a book called "Grow Up-How Taking Responsibility Can Make You a Happier Person", by Frank Pittman. In that book, the author described how the giving of love was more important for happiness than the receiving of love. I realized that I didn't even have a clue what love really was! How could I give more love than I was receiving if I didn't really know what love really was? How would I ever be happy? I was pondering about what the true nature of love really was until I decided to read a book about it. This book answers those questions and more. The author is a medical doctor and he uses medical analogies to describe the action of love as if it were an essential hormone. Negative emotions such as fear are like "drugs" that pollute the system and "block" the action of love, just like a beta-blocker drug blocks the action of adrenalin, for certain heart conditions. Thus "love-blockage" keeps us from experiencing love. The author is a Christian writer, but anyone with any background can read this book and obtain a deeper understanding of the truer meaning of love. I am definitely glad I read this book, and I highly recommend reading this book to anyone searching to get a deeper understanding of the meaning of love.

A refreshing look at a common problem

I have found this book a great help; Biuso and Newman approach the problem of feeling unworthy of love from the viewpoint of a medical doctor and a psychologist, respectively (which they are). Especially good is the analogy of receiving love with the brain's reception of neurotransmitter chemicals such as serotonin and endorphins.