Love 2.0

LoveBlossoms presents a new and fascinating view of Love, she calls Love 2.0, meaning a newer and more evolved view of what Love is.

She talks about micromoments of Love
   strangers at a pie-throwing contest
   sharing positive emotions

• similar to peak experiences and other emerging insights, ahha experiences, epithanies, feelings of joy or Love, mayor scientific discoveries, pieces of high-quality art, and the emergence of new clown antics.
• 10 “Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being…it’s bigger than joy, amusement, gratitude, or hope…it has special status…our supreme emotion… “makes us come most fully alive and feel most fully human…perhaps the most essential emotional experience for thriving and health…draws you out of your cocoon of self-absorption to attune to others…allows you too really see another person, holistically, with care, concern, and compassion. Within each moment of loving connection, you become sincerely invested in this other person’s well-being, simply for his or her own sake. And the feeling is mutual.” 10

• 9 Causal arrow other direction… “each of these players within the larger positivity system … desire, bonds, commitments, trust…triggers subsequent moments of loving connection [spiral]
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• Players are both cause and consequence of loving connections” …this is what sustains the complex and dynamic positivity system…Love energizes this whole system and sets it in motion” 9
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• 10 “Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being…it’s bigger than joy, amusement, gratitude, or hope…it has special status…our supreme emotion… “makes us come most fully alive and feel most fully human…perhaps the most essential emotional experience for thriving and health…draws you out of your cocoon of self-absorption to attune to others…allows you too really see another person, holistically, with care, concern, and compassion. Within each moment of loving connection, you become sincerely invested in this other person’s well-being, simply for his or her own sake. And the feeling is mutual.” 10
• “love is connection…fondness and sense of shared purpose you might unexpectedly feel with a group of strangers who’ve come together to marvel at a hatching of sea turtles or cheer at a football game…Love blossoms virtually anytime two or more people—even strangers—connect over a shared positive emotion, be it mild or strong” 17
• “to put it in a nutshell, love is the momentary upwelling of three tightly interwoven events:
  • first, a sharing of one or more positive emotions between you and another; [rc?]
    • Not proximity?
  • second, a synchrony between your and the other person’s biochemistry and behaviors; [rc at biochemistry and behavior]
    • Not proximity????????????
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  • and third, a reflected motive to invest in each other’s well-being that brings mutual care…
  • “My shorthand for this trio is positivity resonance…life-giving positivity resonates between and among people. This back-and-forth reverberation of positive energy sustains itself—and can even grow stronger—until the momentary connection wanes” 17…
    • Not proximity

See also Reflective Dialogs