1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.
Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday, I share something about myself or what we are working on at PCI.
This week, we’ve been exploring Barbara Fredrickson‘s fascinating book Love 2.0, where we’ve learned about “the biology of love.”
Scientists tell us love is an emotion, a “micro-moment … continue reading
1: Is there anything specific we can do to experience more love in our lives?
The science tells us the answer is yes.
Yesterday, we looked at how people with high vagal tone experience more love and connection. Â
The vagus nerve runs from deep within our brain stem down into our heart and other internal organs.
People with higher vagal tone tend to be “more flexible across a whole … continue reading
1: Ever heard of the vagus nerve?
It sounds like Vegas, as in Las Vegas, and runs from deep within our brain stem down to our heart, lungs, and other internal organs.
Turns out it’s quite important.
“Compared to people with lower vagal tone, those with higher vagal tone experience more love in their daily lives, more moments of positivity resonance,” Barbara Fredrickson writes in her book Love 2.0: How … continue reading
1: “Picture moms or dads showering their baby with kisses, tickling their baby’s tiny fingers and toes, smiling at their baby, and speaking to him or her in that high-pitched, singsong tone that scientists call motherese,” Barbara Fredrickson writes in her book Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do and Become.
What does science tell us is happening here? Â
One word: Oxytocin. Also … continue reading
1: It’s Monday. We are off and running. Each of us is experiencing a sequence of different events and situations.
“Each scene, of course, has its own script,” Barbara Fredrickson writes in her powerful book Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do.
“For perhaps most of our day,” she notes, we’re “pretty much caught up in our own thoughts and plans, oblivious to the … continue reading
1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.
Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday, I share something about myself or what we are working on at PCI.
Last week, we reviewed some of the lessons from Barbara Fredrickson‘s book Love 2.0.
Barbara is the Kenan Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel … continue reading
1: 1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.
Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday, I share something about myself or what we are working on at PCI.
This week, we’ve been exploring Barbara Fredrickson‘s research regarding what she calls Love 2.0 in the book of the same name.
Barbara is a scientist. Science tells us … continue reading
1: Love doesn’t spring up randomly, Barbara Fredrickson writes in her book Love 2.0: Creating Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection.
“It emerges within certain circumstances,” she notes, “stemming from particular patterns of thought and action.
“These are love’s bedrock prerequisites.”
The first condition? A perception of safety.
“If we assess our current circumstances as threatening or dangerous in any way,” Barbara writes, “love is not at that moment … continue reading
1: It was the opening game of the 1995 football season for the University of Michigan Wolverines.
Professor Barbara Fredrickson was a new member of the faculty. A colleague had encouraged her and her husband to attend the game because “that’s what we do here.”Â
So off they went, he recalls in her book Love 2.0: Creating Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection.
Together, they entered one of … continue reading
1: Scientists believe love is an emotion.
Love is “the micro-moment of warmth and connection that we share with another living being,” Barbara Fredrickson writes in her book Love 2.0: Creating Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection.
Yesterday, we explored how we can be intentional about amplifying the love we experience in our deepest and most important relationships.
Understanding this reality, we can choose to create more … continue reading
