
Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection

Love is our supreme emotion that makes us come most fully alive and feel most fully human. It is perhaps the most essential emotional experience for thriving and health.
Barbara Fredrickson • Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection
love is the momentary upwelling of three tightly interwoven events: first, a sharing of one or more positive emotions between you and another; second, a synchrony between your and the other person’s biochemistry and behaviors; and third, a reflected motive to invest in each other’s well-being that brings
Barbara Fredrickson • Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection
positivity resonance.
Barbara Fredrickson • Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection
Love’s second precondition is connection, true sensory and
Barbara Fredrickson • Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection
Physical presence is key to love, to positivity resonance.
Barbara Fredrickson • Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection
Love is not sexual desire or the blood-ties of kinship. Nor is it a special bond or commitment.
Barbara Fredrickson • Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection
eye contact may well be the most potent trigger for connection and oneness.
Barbara Fredrickson • Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection
love is connection.
Barbara Fredrickson • Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection
Love allows you to really see another person, holistically, with care, concern, and compassion.