After millions of songs and greeting cards, LOVE needs no introduction. Love as a character strength refers to the degree to which you value close relationships with people, and contribute to that closeness in a warm and genuine way. Where kindness can be a behavioral pattern applied in any relationship, love as a character strength really refers to the way you approach your closest and warmest relationships. Love is reciprocal, referring to both loving others and the willingness to accept love from others. There are four types of love, each with a biological and evolutionary base: · Attachment love: parent for child; child for parent · Compassionate/altruistic love: kindness · Companionate love: friendship · Romantic love: spouse/partner/boyfriend/girlfriend 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, Barbara L. 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. ‘Love 2.0’ will reinvent how you look at and experience our most powerful emotion! #positive_psychology #VIA_character_strengths #what_should_I_read_next
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Subconscious blocks to receiving LOVE 💔 Feel they are too unworthy to receive love 💔 Think they are a burden and too much effort 💔 Believe they are selfish for wanting love and feel shame for asking 💔 See themselves as weak if they need support or care from others 💔 Assume they will be abandoned if they ask for love or show emotions 💔 Scared they don't deserve it and aren't good enough Did you know that love blocks can get in the way of you forming healthy relationships. These blocks often start in early in childhood and from traumatic experiences that created feelings of uncertainty and fear from experiences like abuse or abandonment. Sometimes blocking love makes us feel like we are protecting our heart, and we will be safe from hurt and painful emotions. Our old beliefs suppress our true feelings and then we end up feeling unworthy, undeserving and weak. We start create our own list of what love is and isn't, and then we start living by those self-imposed beliefs and then holding others that we meet to that expectation. When we hide from love, we are the ones actually rejecting it. In reality, we are not allowing ourselves the capacity to love or have the love we deserve. When we can uncover those limiting beliefs that we created, we can begin to open up and understand our triggers and needs. Once we become more aware, we can identify our feelings, and then express them and share with others in a safe way, giving ourselves permission to receive love. Connect back with your heart. In order to receive love from others, you must first be able to receive love from yourself. What ways to you hold yourself back from receiving love? #mentalhealth #limitingbeliefs #psychotherapistflorida #relationships
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Are you compromising and avoiding conflict? Feeling anxious, angry, and worried things will just get worse? It’s time to resolve negative feelings and behavior so love returns. Check out this info and training: https://lnkd.in/gqffyi9c #Romance #Avoidance #Love
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WE LIE TO OURSELVES about how attractive, capable, intelligent we are. excerpted from https://lnkd.in/ghf-VW5H What it’s like” is: it’s like gaining enormous, terrifying clarity. The moment when you realize the right path, the yes or no answer, the end of the debate. Clarity might sound great— don’t we all want clarity? But clarity is cruel, too. We’re fond of illusions, and we’re fond of fictions, which are themselves a sort of illusion. We lie to ourselves about how attractive, capable, intelligent we are. Staring into the face of what matters means reconciling with all the time you spent focusing on what didn’t. And it turns out, that was a lot of time. Why was I watching TV? Browsing Instagram? Holding my phone instead of a person? Fighting the silly fights? Prosecuting pointless arguments? Clarity shows that love matters, as does recognizing love, so that you can nurture it and appreciate it. Romantic love matters, but also friendship love. And yet so many of our daily behaviors and practices are antithetical to these clear, high-level principles.
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Explore the profound insights on love from Dr. Daniel Casriel's The Road of Happiness. Learn how understanding love as a biological need and a learned emotion can enrich your journey as a father.
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