Love Meditation

To suffer from loneliness while waiting for real love? What if she's just a myth that prevents us from enjoying our lives? Barbara Fredrickson's psychologist. Love meditationwhich will help to manage loneliness and promote health.

The Professor of Psychophysics and the leading researcher of positive emotions at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill (USA) Barbara Fredrickson (Barbara Fredrickson) conducted a series of experiments that overturn our traditional notions of romantic love.*

It's not the eternal love on which marriage is supposed to be held, and it's not the passionate taste of youth heated by hormones. In love is a more earthly, simple and accessible feeling we can experience every day, even if we're alone, Fredrickson claims. She calls love a " positive response " . At these moments, we feel mentally connected to another man, we are flooded by a wave of positive emotions. Husband or wife, child, close friend, friend, colleague, or even strangers on the street we met with, we can each have a sense of love.

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But there's one condition - to feel love, it's necessary to be physically close to a man. Let's just say if at this moment your favorite or loved one isn't around, you two aren't in love with each other. You can feel attachment to or disguise your partner, but your body is outside the zone of love, insists on Fredrickson.

To understand why this is happening, it is important to understand how love works in biology. Like all emotions, it has biochemical and physiological dimensions. It was considered that, unlike some other positive emotions, such as joy and happiness, love cannot be " self-generated " , it is only born in a couple. Three major players in the biological love mechanism are so-called mirror neurons, hormone of oxytocin attachment and blunt neural neurosis connecting the brain to the heart. Each of them helps us to establish and strengthen relationships with others and everyone participates in the micromodels of love.

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" For example, the blunt nerve stimulates the smallest facial muscles, improving visual contact and making our mimika look like a mimika interviewer, explains Fredrickson. - He even builds the muscles of the middle ear so that the voice of the beloved or loved one of the noises surrounding him can first be distinguished. "