Love 2.0

How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become

By: Barbara Fredrickson

Narrated by: Barbara Fredrickson

We all know love matters, but in this groundbreaking book positive emotions expert Barbara Fredrickson shows us how much. Even more than happiness and optimism, love holds the key to improving our mental and physical health as well as lengthening our lives.

Using research from her own lab, Fredrickson redefines love not as a stable behemoth, but as micro-moments of connection between people - even strangers. She demonstrates that our capacity for experiencing love can be measured and strengthened in ways that improve our health and longevity. Finally, she introduces us to informal and formal practices to unlock love in our lives, generate compassion, and even self-soothe.

Rare in its scope and ambitious in its message, Love 2.0 will reinvent how you look at and experience our most powerful emotion.

©2013 Barbara Fredrickson Ph.D. (P)2013 Gildan Media LLC

A Full Love Reboot

A scientific approach to love? It makes sense in the 21st century, where love can blossom from a swipe! This book tells how our old method of perceiving love is outdated, and provides sciebtuf and medical data to look into the new way to process "the most powerful emotion."

I would recommend this to anyone who really appreciates the power of love. It will only take you to a newer understanding of yourself through the author's lens. It is interactive with features like a website to monitor yourself while practicing the exercises and meditations mentioned in the book. It made a difference for me.

I appreciate the poetry.

What made the experience of listening to Love 2.0 the most enjoyable?

The narration. The author reads the book. This is many times a big turn off in audiobooks. Being a skilled writer guarantees nothing about one's ability to present what is written. This is a wonderful exception. This book is as much a poem as it is a work of science. The science is good, I'm a natural savant at the subject matter and the science is spot on. However it is as a poem this book shines. The author understands and believes what she is saying. This is important. The book is not about sweeping changes. It is about the cumulative effects of many small changes, small moments of time and love which combined over time change everything. Not quantitatively, but qualitatively. The world becomes a much different place. Understanding this allows the words to be beautiful. It is a beauty intended to share something not typically seen, but important.

What did you like best about this story?

If you've ever wondered why love fails to live up to the advertising, this book tells why. It debunks "true love" in favor of love that is true, love that can exist in our ordinary mixed up world. Truth is compelling. Love, if nothing else, should be truth.

What does Barbara Fredrickson bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

As I said before, this is not a "showy" solution. Small steps becoming big things seems counter-intuitive. The author's genuine belief in her work might just break through your pre-conceptions enough for you to try it. To appreciate this book, you have to actually try it.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Completely impossible to make into a movie, though it could make a really good song. I could see a lot of great music coming from this book.

Any additional comments?

Do you want the fantasy, or a new fantasy that can actually work? Do you want the deep inter-connections that love makes possible?

very interesting

the discussion on loving kindness meditation gave me a lot to think over. I do meditation now. I'll have to add LKM to my practice.

Completely Changed My Perceptions Of Love

I was doubtful, but this book not only changed my perceptions of love, it changed the frequency of love's expression inside and outside of my home. My first experience with positivity resonance was while donating blood. I felt a new connection with the nurse who took my medical history and stabbed my finger. She made me feel valuable, secure, understood and I felt love, nothing romantic, nothing sexual, but physical, intimate, worthy. Her touch, her professional movements, her skill were irresistible, and I loved her for it. It will take me several more listens to more fully understand this kind of love, but I try to get it and give it every day at work, and it has made a big difference in my interactions.

Meditation - improves your ability to love

The book uses a scientific approach to love. Micro moments of positivity resonance = Love
For me it was an interesting concept. something I never heard, but was able to accept and understand. The book also helped me deepen my interest in meditation- a relatively new habit of mine.
All in all, the book explains how science slowly discovers and proves the age old approaches - that are still working - quite effectively in the 21st century.
A nice easy read with great meditation exercises.