
Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection

It resides within connections.
Barbara Fredrickson • Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection
the two of you are quite literally on the same wavelength, biologically.
Barbara Fredrickson • Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection
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.
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
A positivity-infused interweaving of our hearts and minds emerges, a momentary state scientists have called intersubjectivity.
Barbara Fredrickson • Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection
Love unfolds and reverberates between and among people—within interpersonal transactions—and thereby belongs to all parties involved, and to the metaphorical connective tissue that binds them together, albeit temporarily.
Barbara Fredrickson • Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection
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.
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
love is connection.