How do you block the emotion "love"?(no opinions on how great emotions are)?

Question

if there is a way to take the emotion out, if its linked to the brain

Answer 1

there's no way to take emotion out for as long as you are a human...  

Answer 2

Ah, the young nihilist!  You're not the first to have loved and lost, nor will you be the last.  I know that you don't want to hear this, young man, but you just need some time to grow up.  A lot of time.  How much time?  When will the pain go away?  You will not be mature enough to handle such emotions until you are in you mid to late 20's.  I know that sounds like a really long time, and it is.  But the only other option is suicide, and you don't really want to do that, or we wouldn't be talking right now.  I know you feel like you are the only one in the world who is going through what you are going through.  But rest assured, it's part of the maturation process.  Your parents went through it.  I went through it.  EVERYONE has to go through it.  But you will conquer your emotions and you will successfully emerge on the other side.  I know it's rough.  Your late teens and early 20's are the worst years of your life.  But take my word for it that life on the backside of 25 is wonderful and that you have truly fantastic experiences awaiting you.  Just don't give up.  You'll make it.  h**l, if I made it, anyone can make it...

Answer 3

To block 'love' out, simply research the myth of it. Emotions dont exist; they're only combinations of chemicals in your brain that alter your thought processes and behaviors.

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Biological models of love tend to view love as a mammalian drive, much like hunger or thirst. Helen Fisher, a leading expert in the topic of love, divides the experience of love into three partly-overlapping stages: lust, attraction, and attachment. Lust exposes people to others, romantic attraction encourages people to focus their energy on mating, and attachment involves tolerating the spouse long enough to rear a child into infancy.

Lust is the initial passionate sexual desire that promotes mating, and involves the increased release of chemicals such as testosterone and estrogen. These effects rarely last more than a few weeks or months. Attraction is the more individualized and romantic desire for a specific candidate for mating, which develops out of lust as commitment to an individual mate forms. Recent studies in neuroscience have indicated that as people fall in love, the brain consistently releases a certain set of chemicals, including pheromones, dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin, which act similar to amphetamines, stimulating the brain's pleasure center and leading to side-effects such as an increased heart rate, loss of appetite and sleep, and an intense feeling of excitement. Research has indicated that this stage generally lasts from one and a half to three years.

Since the lust and attraction stages are both considered temporary, a third stage is needed to account for long-term relationships. Attachment is the bonding which promotes relationships that last for many years, and even decades. Attachment is generally based on commitments such as marriage and children, or on mutual friendship based on things like shared interests. It has been linked to higher levels of the chemicals oxytocin and vasopressin than short-term relationships have. In 2005, Italian scientists at Pavia University found that a protein molecule known as the nerve growth factor (NGF) has high levels when people first fall in love, but these levels return to as they were after one year. Specifically, four neurotrophin levels, i.e. NGF, BDNF, NT-3, and NT-4, of 58 subjects who had recently fallen in love were compared with levels in a control group who were either single or already engaged in a long-term relationship. The results showed that NGF levels were significantly higher in the subjects in love than as compared to either of the control groups.

Answer 4

Emotions are very linked to the brain. Emotions are still not truely understood yet. But you want to if you can block the emotion of Love. Well, this will take some dicing og mid-brain structure called the hippocampus and limbic system, and while you are at it, the amygdala also. Obviously you do not want to do this to a person because you will ruin the whole memory system and emotion system. You only want love taken out. Your brain knows the facial expression for love and has a memory of what love is. In order to get rid of love, you need to remove the memory aspect from your limbic system and the emotional aspect of love. People with brain damage to these areas do exhibit emotional problems.

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Anyway, Now if you look at your frontal lobe, emotions from the limbic system are relayed to the frontal lobe inorder for you to take action to whatever stimulus is causing the emotion (ie: a person is talking during a movie, do you confront him and tell him to be quiet or do you just ignore it?).

In my opinion, I do not think that you can inhibit the emotion of love. These emotions are so basic that you have them encoded into the brain. Mainly the thoery goes that emotions are important for survival. To understand how  the other organism is feeling, ie your child.

If you need a better clairty on this subject, or have more questions, you can email me.

good luck.