
Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection

No emotion is built to last, not even the ones that feel so good.
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
positivity resonance.
Barbara Fredrickson • Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection
Redefining love as those micro-moments of positivity resonance you can share with nearly anyone breaks open extraordinary opportunities.
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.
Barbara Fredrickson • 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.
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
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.