Things You Might Not Know About I Love Africa cont... 7. Your Immune Cells Reflect Your Past Experiences of Love Too often, you get the message that your future prospects hinge on your DNA. Yet the ways that your genes get expressed at the cellular level depends mightily on many factors, including whether you consider yourself to be socially connected or chronically lonely. Dr. Fredericks team is now investigating the cellular effects of love, testing whether people who build more micro-moments of love in daily life also build healthier immune cells. It is possible that changing your daily habits can affect these fundamental aspects of your physiology. 8.Small Emotional Moments Can Have Large Biological Effects Are you surprised that a micro-moment can have any lasting effect on your health and longevity? Dr. Frederickson has learned that theres an upward spiral between your social and your physical well-being. A positive feedback loop, as it were, where each new level of health increases your own ability to love more, and in turn be healthier. 9.Take Good Care of a Loving Marriage Dr. Fredericksons own perspective on love changed during the course of writing her book about love. Far from being a single, steady thing, she began to see love as the consequence of all of these micro-moments of bonding and synchrony -- one that can only continue if they continue to generate those micro-bonding moments. This approach makes daily maintenance of the relationship all the more important. 10.Love and Compassion Can Be the Same One important aspect of this re-imagining of love as micro-moments of connection, is divorcing it from necessarily positive feelings. They may well be positive, but a compassionate moment with a loved one who is stressed, in pain or upset is no less of a bond, no less of a moment. Love still consists of positive moments, but does not require the absence of the negative.
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