Selection From Love 2.0 Barbara Fredrickson Analysis

Humans have always looked for the answer to finding happiness in life. For the majority of people, they believe that love will bring them this sense of happiness. In Barbara Fredrickson’s, “Selections from Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do and Become,” she talks about how we see love in the wrong way and that we should start looking at love the way the body sees it. This change in perception of the definition of love allows people to have a better chance of obtaining love and having a better sense of self. With the conventional notions of love and relationships, love becomes more complex by giving people the sense of longing. This sense of longing, or the feeling that you are missing something from life, …show more content…
This lowers the chances of neural coupling and hurts the chances of people having positive emotions. The lack of positive emotions puts these people in a bad place emotionally and physically. “The data go further to suggest that feeling isolated or unconnected to others does more bodily damage than actual isolation, suggesting that painful emotions drive the bodily damage that actual isolation, suggesting that painful emotions drive the bodily systems that in turn steer you toward dire health outcomes” (121). The misunderstanding of love only causes people to worsen their situation by creating a stronger sense of longing. They strive for having a relationship to cure their problems. By looking towards the body’s definition of love, people would be able to see that there are many ways to eliminate the sense of loneliness like using Oxytocin. “And under the influence of oxytocin, you grow calmer, more attuned to others, friendlier, and more open” (120). By understanding the right definition of love people could easily have happiness in their life and have no insecurities. The wrong definition of love only causes people to have a sense of insecurities that changes their sense of self in a negative