
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
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 is connection.
Barbara Fredrickson • Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection
First and foremost, love is an emotion, a momentary state that arises to infuse your mind and body alike.
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
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
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
You and the other person mirror the positivity in each other’s emotional state; you mirror each other’s gestures and biochemistry; and you mirror each other’s impulse to care for one another.
Barbara Fredrickson • 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.