Dr Barbara Fredrickson 'Love - a new lens on the science of thriving' at Young Minds 2012

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What is love?
How do positive emotions affect our bodies and minds?
Can we actively increase our own and our children's capacity for love?
What are the implications for parents and teachers?

[@TheKongruent]

She brings the most important human experience and feeling into our focus again is fantastic. All of this Barbara is talking about here, is the most important part of NLP basic education for at least 20 Years now. It is also shown by the much older buddhist tradition. Now Barbara did test it and proof it to the academic world and brings all the results from research together to this fact of relationship between mirror-neurons, the feeling of love and our health - NLP+Health, Tim&Suzie / R.Dilts

[@melneil7838]

Barbara, thank you once again for the amazing things you bring to the world of Positive Psychology and Emotional Intelligence

[@judykrings]

Your warm heart surely added to mine! Thanks you. Positive Emotions nourish you and rock the world. Pay it forward and watch the universe smile. Thanks!

[@janethayward2]

Barbara Fredrickson's work in the science of positive emotions provides scientific support to the ideas behind the law of attraction and using positive affirmations to shift your thoughts. She is an inspirations.

[@michaelplace]

Omg yes! Just realized this. I’m so excited to teach this now.

[@jennifersantosla6001]

I will have to listen to this time and again - so much content - thank you

[@integralstanley]

Positive emotions are a valuable kind of wealth. What better is there to do than to share our wealth with those we care about in and as love? I love this talk. Thanks

[@doodleslice]

Fascinating talk! Great job Barbara!

[@judykrings]

Loved every nanosecond. Many thanks!

[@narayancrakshit2368]

Excellent .love opens all the doors.

[@robynly]

Courageous study!!

[@costinelavasile3474]

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails.

[@likemusicwhat]

:) they have been saying that their entire lives, especially HH DL but now we have solid experimental evidence this kind of research will have a huge impact in our future, and probably will be regarded as important as Einstein's or Newton's work.

[@algodaocereja]

beautiful (:

[@narayancrakshit2368]

Barbara have lot of research on most delicate emotion love, and it's outcome in micromoment.

[@omnificent15]

If it's conditional it isn't love. It's a business.

[@omnificent15]

"You cannot create electricity with only the positive pole; you will need the negative pole too. Only with both the negative and the positive pole can you create electricity. Is the negative absolutely negative? It is complementary, so it is not against the positive." Positive thinking - Philosophy for Phonies Oshonews.com

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

It's actually not entirely true that you need negative opposites to recognise the particular qualities of something or imagine the absence of them based on comparison with other things. All you need to do is to be able to make qualitative distinctions based on whatever you observe. I don't need to be on the verge of starvation to appreciate a meal. I never have been. I just need to be a wee bit peckish. And really I don't even need that. I am perfectly capable of enjoying food for the simply pleasure of taste and texture. If life was nothing but a selection of meals I would not need to know the state of starvation in order to appreciate different kinds of food. One day I might be up for fish, another day a cake is all that will do. The human sensorium is not one of uniformity of experience, it is richly varied and full of nuance. You don't need to be beaten with a stick to appreciate love and care either . In fact love has specific physical effects that nourishes your body whether you even sense it or not. Positive and negative in the context of Fredrickson is one that has "well-being" or "homeostasis" as it's obvious frame of reference. This fundamentally is a body-perspective, not a philosophical discussion. It is about what is conducive to survival and flourishing in an evolutionary and neurophysiological perspective. That said I would agree that a general emphasis only on the power of the individual to generate positive moments is irresponsible when it comes to the levels of societies or work environments. Positivity, Fredrickson would agree, is also situated, which is to say intersubjective and influenced by circumstances and social structures. To put the individual as the core engine of the greater movements of society and it's products in terms of happiness or the lack thereof is single-minded and naive.