A classic study conducted 20 years ago on the effects of diet on rabbits demonstrated the therapeutic power of emotions on the health of animals. (simplypetsmagazine.com)
The author of numerous articles and chapters on transformation and trauma, she is also the author of The Transforming Power of Affect: A Model for Accelerated Change (Basic Books, 2000), and the editor, with Dan Siegel and Marion Solomon, of The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, Development, & Clinical Practice (Norton, 2009). (mindgains.org)
This seems to be an apt summary of the situation — the initial power of emotion and passion of feeling deemed «love at first sight» is perhaps not love itself but the initiator of the forthcoming love. (elitesingles.co.nz)