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Barbara L. Fredrickson · 2013
Sequence ladder
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What this book knows
Love is not a bond but a micro-moment of shared positive resonance — measurable, biological, and cultivatable in daily life.
belonging
Love is the essential nutrient that your cells crave: true positivity-charged connection with other living beings.
LV20-RC-002You can sync up like this with a stranger just as you can with a lifelong companion — the two of you are quite literally on the same wavelength, biologically.
LFHH-RC-014intimacy
Set aside your view of love as a special bond or relationship, be it with your spouse, partner, or soul mate.
LV20-RC-003Only love creates such a deep interpersonal resonance — your own warmth and openness evoke and are simultaneously evoked by the other person.
LV20-RC-013mind-and-cognition
Oxytocin surges during such pivotal interpersonal moments, blinding scientists for years to its more subtle ebb and flow in day-to-day activities.
LFHH-RC-034Oxytocin has been cast as a lead character in the mammalian calm-and-connect response, best contrasted to the far more familiar fight-or-flight response.
LV20-RC-039Illuminates
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