Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection

Positivity resonance has established a connection between us, as your and my brain activity and biochemistry increasingly become one and the same.

Redefining love as those micro-moments of positivity resonance you can share with nearly anyone breaks open extraordinary opportunities.

If I take my body’s perspective on love seriously, it means that right now—at this very moment in which I’m crafting this sentence—I do not love my husband.

Physical presence is key to love, to positivity resonance.

eye contact may well be the most potent trigger for connection and oneness.

A positivity-infused interweaving of our hearts and minds emerges, a momentary state scientists have called intersubjectivity.

Love requires you to be physically and emotionally present. It also requires that you slow down.

From this work, I can tell you that, under the influence of oxytocin, you attend more to people’s eyes and become specifically more attuned to their smiles, especially subtle ones.

The first tool for experiencing more moments of love is one that we discovered completely by chance. It entails simply reflecting, at the end of each day, on the three longest social interactions you’ve had that day, and asking yourself how “connected” and “in tune” you felt with the people with whom you spent your time.