>> I would say it's really difficult to describe.
For me personally, it's hard to put my finger on what it is but
sometimes you just like, I really clicked with that person and,
and I think a lot of it, you know that eye contact, that synchrony and
the things you talked about with positivity resonates.
>> Uh-huh. >> It's a lot of that but
I think, usually I think it's just this instinct almost.
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah.
>> I'm not sure if ya'll have similar?
>> Yeah, it's kind of energizing.
>> Yeah. >> You know,
there's something that's like this uplift, this energizing peace to it.
>> I was going to say the physiology, physiology of it.
The warm, the body temperature, the the warmness.
>> Uh-huh.
>> The smiling.
>> Yeah. >> All of that.
You just feel this connection that, to me it is all about vibrations and energy.
>> Yeah. >> But, definitely.
>> So something energizing, something connected.
It's, it's happening again,
not just in an abstract way of connecting, but in a, yeah?
>> It's, it's like life-affirming and heart-opening.
It's like you were saying, it's really energetic thing.
Just really feeling that, feels like love.
>> Mm-hm.
>> It's kind of being filled with love.
>> Yeah, it, it, I think there's, it,
it's interesting when you think about life giving.
It's just kind of like this if,
if these micro-moments of connection are really working as nutrients.
Nutrients give us life.
They give us energy.
So these little emotional connections I think also give us life and
give us energy.
You know, sometimes when we think about love and hearts, we kind of think of
cartoon hearts like Valentine's Day, or you know greeting cards or something.
But you know one of the main things that we've looked at, is how these experiences
of connection cultivated through practices like love and
kindness meditation affect the physical heart, affect the real heart.
And not just in terms of a momentary flutter, you know, but in terms
of like the stable rhythms of healthy efficient functioning of the heart.
And then, in particular, we've spent a lot of time looking at the vagus nerve.
I'll give you a little image of where the vagus nerve is.
It emerges deep within your brainstem and
connects your brain to your heart, literally.
It is the tie between your brain and your heart.
And, and also connects your brain to other internal organs as well.