Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection

love is connection.

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

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.

I need to ask you to disengage from some of your most cherished beliefs about love as well: the notions that love is exclusive, lasting, and unconditional.

Physical presence is key to love, to positivity resonance.

When positivity resonance moves between you and another, for instance, the two of you begin to mirror each other’s postures and gestures, and even finish each other’s sentences.

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

Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being.

No emotion is built to last, not even the ones that feel so good.