For episode 190 of the Metta Hour, Sharon welcomes Dr. Barbara Fredrickson.
Dr. Barbara Fredrickson is a Kenan Distinguished Professor within the Division of Psychology and Neuroscience at UNC-Chapel Hill. Barbara is the director of the Constructive Feelings and Psychophysiology Laboratory. She is an award-winning trainer and likewise among the many most highly-cited scientists worldwide. Her books, Positivity and Love 2.0 have been translated into dozens of languages. Barbara has been President of the Worldwide Constructive Psychology Affiliation and the Society for Affective Science.
On this episode, Sharon and Barbara focus on:
How Barbara and Sharon first related • The historical past of the research of feelings in trendy psychology • Experiential states that aren’t acknowledged as feelings • The peril of glorifying achievement • Evolutionary Psychology • The consilience of contemplative knowledge and science • The method of making the Broaden & Construct Concept • How Lovingkindness meditation (Metta) affected Barbara’s work • Barbara’s definition of “love” • The contagion of feelings • The collective creation of constructive states • The applying of Lovingkindness (Metta) • The Brahma Viharas (4 Immeasurables) • Barbara’s cat Mudita • The significance of acceptance • Aware consciousness versus savoring • Barbara’s e book “Love 2.0” • “Quick Moments, Many Occasions” research • The Analysis of Lovingkindness (Metta) meditation • What Barbara is engaged on subsequent
To study extra about Barbara’s work, you’ll be able to go to her web site positiveemotions.org and and get your self a replica of her books, Positivity and Love 2.0
Human Nature and Positivity
Barbara talks about her deal with human nature in her analysis. She describes how there was not a lot curiosity or curiosity within the science of why individuals do the issues they do. She and Sharon focus on her analysis into constructive feelings and the way they might promote survival.
Tune into Ep. 80 of The Indie Spiritualist to study extra about the advantages of positivity: Constructive Psychological Perspective with John Joseph
Nice Second Consciousness (14:20)
Our tradition typically glorifies achievement somewhat than feeling good. Being current helps us take note of what feels good. Barbara refers to this as ‘nice second’ consciousness. What varieties of states really feel good for you? We might consider constructive states as being with a lover or basking in nature, however issues like studying and considering can even present us with a supply of awe and positivity. Even simply specializing in what it’s prefer to be human can present us with nice knowledge and contentment.
“We ignore these states at our personal peril. We ignore them and we don’t develop as a lot. We ignore them and we are able to’t be actually alive. We achieve rather a lot out of redirecting our consideration to those extra refined nice states.” – Dr. Barbara Fredrickson
Evolutionary Psychology (23:02)
Barbara has a background in evolutionary psychology. She poses {that a} broadened consciousness supplies nutriments for our well-being and this may increasingly have helped our ancestors’ survival. Broadened consciousness builds our assets and relationships. These instruments assist us after we are at risk. Play is outstanding in youth as a result of these constructive feelings gas our studying. Once we study higher, we develop and we survive. Once we are having fun with ourselves we don’t even discover how a lot development is happening; positivity causes incidental development. Whereas the emotion could also be transient, the issues which might be constructed out of that emotion are long-lasting.
Love In Context (44:38)
Sharon and Barbara focus on the constructive state of Lovingkindness. Love will be the identical idea in several contexts. Generally, we embody love via the attention of any individual else’s struggling. This in flip causes compassion. The ways in which love can remodel us internally after which manifest into the world is fascinating to Dr. Barbara, personally and scientifically. Once we supply somebody our compassion we may give them a way of aid and share sympathetic pleasure. One constructive interplay like this may be step one to a domino impact of goodness.
“What you do have management over is your individual inside state of kindness and connection, and once you change into conscious of what’s occurring with the opposite individual that love will get remodeled into compassion.” – Dr. Barbara Fredrickson
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