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October 31, 2017
|MESSAGES FROM ARCHANGEL MICHAEL * LM-11-2017
Beloved masters, we ask you to pause for a moment and turn inward as you quickly move into your Sacred Heart Center. Take a deep breath and tap into your Sacred Mind as well. Now ponder these questions: What is it that you yearn for above all things? What is missing from your life that affects everything you think, feel and do? The answer is Sacred Love, dear hearts.
We do not mean love as you now experience it in the physical realm, but the Sacred Love of your OverSoul /Higher Self, the many Facets of your Higher Self, and ultimately your Twin Flame − as well as your Soul family in the higher realms, your wondrous angelic friends, the great Beings of Light, our Father/Mother God and the Supreme Creator. That is what is missing, and that is what you have yearned for ever since you left your lofty home among the stars, when you divided yourself into two Sparks of individualized awareness: one masculine Spark and one feminine Spark of Divine consciousness, so that you could reflect and experience the glory and diversity of our Father/Mother God.
In the past, we have explained how you agreed to separate from your sacred partner in order to fulfill your Divine mission; how you have taken turns in assuming a masculine or feminine body; and how, most often, one of you stayed in the higher realms while the other incarnated in the physical expression. Rarely were you given an opportunity to meet in the physical world; however, there were wondrous times in the higher dimensions when you were allowed to join together for a time of joyous reunion, for an infusion of loving ecstasy, a blending of your Essence, a remembrance of what you left behind, and what you have to look forward to in the future. This wondrous gift has not been available to you since you sank into the density of the Third/Fourth-Dimensional expression − UNTIL NOW.
We have asked much of you over these past years of awakening, and you have suffered through many trials and tests. We see that great multitudes of you have slowly, but diligently, changed for the better as you lifted and harmonized your frequency patterns and let go of old, self-limiting thought forms and limitations. You have relinquished most of your ego-driven emotions and habits, as you have striven to Return to Center within your Sacred Heart and to become a Self-master. We have watched you struggle to understand all the new, mind-boggling concepts, as you endeavor to claim and live your truth to the best of your ability. We salute and honor you for your dedication and your constant vigilance in monitoring your thoughts, and for always striving for the greatest good of all.
In reviewing the past, have you not changed radically for the better? Is your personal world more tranquil and filled with joy? Are you not gaining proficiency in creating abundance and the things you desire to live in comfort and safety? Have you learned and taken to heart the universal laws of prosperity, whereby you affirm that you are entitled to abundance in all things? Remember, you must keep the universal flow circulating; you are to take what you need, and then allow the balance to flow out into the world to be shared, so that it can be replenished and multiplied, over and over again.
Yes, you have been reaping many rewards for your dedication and loyalty, and we are most gratified with the progress you, the Seekers of Light, have made. However, the gains you have made and the miracles you have experienced in the past are nothing compared to what is now available and awaiting you: a gift beyond compare.
We have spoken much about the purity of unconditional love, which was encoded within your Adam/Eve Kadmon Light Body as you journeyed forth as emissaries for our Father/Mother God, and how it became distorted by the physical, ego desire-body as you sank into the density and the broad spectrum of duality in the Third/Fourth-Dimensional experience. It was not ordained that you should lose touch with the Sacred Love of our Father/Mother God and the Creator. Also, it was not a part of the Divine plan for you to forget your lineage and your Divine heritage.
As you began your journey into the density of the Third and Fourth Dimensions, the veil of forgetfulness was placed over your memory. It was not meant as a punishment, but as an act of mercy, for it would have been overwhelmingly painful to remember the negativity of your past incarnations, as well as very confusing to have access to your many experiences in the higher realms of consciousness. Remember, in most of your past incarnations in the physical realm, you brought very little of your God consciousness with you. The majority of human Beings have been functioning within the lower levels of brain consciousness.
That has now changed. As we have explained in the past, no matter where you chose to incarnate on the spectrum of Light and shadow in this lifetime, it is not where you belong. You chose your family lineage, your physical vessel, and the circumstances of your life. It was decided, with the help of your angelic guides and guardian angels, what the best overall experiences would be to assist you to heal old negative thought patterns, and to resolve ancient karmic issues in order to return to balance and harmony, and to once more attain Self-mastery.
We have told you that you have encoded within your DNA and Divine blueprint all the virtues, attributes, qualities and aspects of our Father/Mother God. You are an electromagnetic force field − an energetic package of Divine Light substance. Encoded within each of you is the ecstasy and bliss of Sacred Love − a cosmic, orgasmic experience beyond anything you can imagine in the physical expression. Opening and attuning to the physical Sacred Heart center is just the beginning. It prepares you for the multi-level reunification process whereby you will gradually reconnect with the many Facets of your Higher Self.
Many of you are now comfortable with the concept of communing with us, your unseen friends and companions of the higher realms. Now, a most wondrous gift is being offered to you: for those of you who are resonating to the frequencies of the upper three sub-planes of the Fourth Dimension and the entry levels of the Fifth Dimension, your Soul Song frequencies are such that you now have the ability to reconnect with a Twin Soul who is in harmony with your Soul’s vibrational patterns − you are ready to experience the ecstasy of Sacred Love. No longer do you have to feel lonely or to hunger for loving acceptance and validation of your worthiness. No longer do you have to yearn for fulfillment, and desire someone in the physical to reflect back to you your beauty or to give you a sense of belonging.
Our Father/Mother God has been waiting for the time when they can offer you this gift beyond compare. When we speak of returning to Oneness, we mean that in the greatest sense, as well as in the many subtle levels of integration in the physical realm. We have told you that the Divine blueprint for the future is now in place, and many rules and conditions of the past will no longer apply to those of you firmly on the path of heightened awareness. No longer will you incarnate with just one of the three major God Rays as your predominant overlay: you will have all twelve Rays of cosmic consciousness fully available and active. In the future, it will be up to you to decide which Rays and combination of Rays you wish to focus on, develop and master. Many of you will choose to not return to planet Earth, but will join with your Divine Soul Mate and many members of your Soul family, as you accept new Divine missions in order to assist in the creation of the new Golden Galaxy of the future. Many rules, conditions and concepts of your earthly experiences are changing as you evolve from human beings to Galactic Beings: you are in the process of returning to your true estate as a cocreative master in the realms of Light.
How do you go about connecting with your Divine Soul companion? First you must say “YES TO SACRED LOVE.” You must desire this connection with all your Being, you must open your mind and heart to the concept that you have a compatible Divine Soul Mate who also desires “Soul reunion,” and you must believe with all your heart that it is possible to reconnect with them.
Go into your Pyramid of Light and lie on the crystal table, move into your Sacred Heart Center and allow the Sacred Love/Light of our Mother/Father God and the Creator to pour forth and fill you to overflowing. Send out the call to your compatible Soul Mate, and ask them to join with you. Speak the words of love that fill your heart and mind, and then listen for an answer. Know that you will receive an answer; however, do not put any conditions as to how and when it will happen. Just know that when the time is right, your beloved will appear. Your reconnection in Spirit form will be a very personal happening, unique and precious to you and your beloved.
Open your heart to all the possibilities of Sacred Love, and know that it is your Divine birthright to experience this most intimate gift. You do not have to share your experiences with others, but know that those around you will begin to feel the difference in you, and they will respond to your uplifted, loving nature. Everyone around you will benefit from your expressions of Sacred Love.
Even if you already have a mate or companion in the physical expression, it is permissible and desirable to reconnect with your Divine counterpart in Spirit form. As you connect with and integrate the attributes and qualities of your other half, something magical happens: You return to wholeness within your own Being, and you no longer look outside yourself for validation or for what you feel is missing. It is the quickest and surest way to feel and then learn to express unconditional love and, thereby, your frequency patterns will be lifted. As a result, you will begin to radiate that refined love to your mate, your loved ones and everyone around you. Most often, your mate and your family will respond to your emanations of Sacred/unconditional love, and the interactions between you will quickly change for the better.
Many dear Souls have agreed at a Soul level to journey alone during this lifetime, or to focus on their spiritual mission instead of seeking a mate or a close companion. We tell you, that you do not have to complete your earthly journey alone, nor do you have to wait until you transcend to experience the state of bliss of the higher realms. It is time for you to shed the filters and veils that have been placed over your memory and consciousness. It is time for you to remember who you are, and ALL that you are. It is a time of reunification of the highest order.
A small minority of more-evolved Twin Flames sometimes incarnate on the Earth Plane at the same time, and it is sometimes ordained that they will find each other and make a connection. In such an instance, both halves of the whole agreed to incarnate at mutual proximity to see how Twin Flames would progress together in the physical expression. Unless the two people involved are firmly on the Path, and are fairly balanced within, these unions do not result in the bliss state, for they bring more strife and unhappiness into their lives than happiness and satisfaction. There is often an obsession with each other, which results in a can’t live with, but can’t live without situation, for they have not learned the secret of Sacred Love, and they are still playing the game of duality and ego-driven love with many conditions.
Going into your Pyramid of Light in the Fifth Dimension has prepared you for many new levels of awareness, and also some of the wondrous gifts of en-LIGHTEN-ment that await you in the future. The Cities of Light meditation will also accelerate the process of preparing you for a rejoining with the appropriate Facet of your Twin Flame, as well as many of the other Fragments of yourself that you left behind in the higher realms.
Many of you will experience doubt, and perhaps some negative emotions regarding this concept of Twin Flame reunion, and the possibility of cosmic, orgasmic bliss. We tell you, beloveds, the feelings of love and the orgasmic union in the physical body pale in comparison to the bliss and the ecstasy we experience in the higher realms. We are in a constant state of bliss, but the most precious gift of all is when we merge with our Divine complement, blending our Essence and ALL of who and what we are. At each higher Dimensional level, the bliss/ecstasy state of Sacred Love is magnified. You, as humans, could not tolerate the power and magnificence of the Creator’s sacred love that we experience constantly.
Are you willing to test this new level of cosmic awareness? Are you ready to accept this Divine gift that is being offered you? You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Your Divine Soul Mate is waiting for you to put out the call. When you say YES to Sacred Love you will feel a dramatic change within your Sacred Heart Center as it prepares to receive the rarified gift of Sacred Love radiated forth from our Mother/Father God. Your earthly life will forever be changed. Call on us and we will guide and assist you in every way possible. Know that I am with you always and you are loved most profoundly. I AM Archangel Michael.
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As much as we might like to, we can’t force love to happen. But we can understand its many levels and connect more easily to its source.SALLY KEMPTONUPDATED:APR 5, 2017ORIGINAL:AUG 28, 2007
“I know love is there,” my old friend Elliot said. “My question is, Why is it that so many times, I can’t feel it?”
We were in the middle of a workshop I teach called “Exploring the Heart.” Elliot had recently lost his father, and so I asked him, “Are you talking about something specific?”
“Of course,” he said. As he told me the story of his father’s death, I felt a deep sense of recognition. The questions his experience raised are essential ones, questions we all deal with as we probe that most fundamental and yet elusive of all human feelings: love.
Elliot and his father had been polite strangers for nearly 20 years. Yet when the father became seriously ill, the only person he wanted around him was his son. “I knew we’d been given our big chance to open up to each other,” Elliot said. “I kept thinking, ‘Now he’ll finally get who I really am! We’ll bond, and I’ll be able to feel love for him at last!'”
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The problem was that Elliot couldn’t dig out a single nugget of love for his father. He wanted to love him. He knew he should love him. But their history together had formed such a habit of disconnection that he felt nothing at all.
So Elliot did the only thing he could think of to close the gap. He asked himself, “How would I act if I did feel love for my father?” Then he acted on the intuition that arose for him.
Elliot realized that when we really love someone, we’re attentive to even the smallest minutiae of that person’s existence. So he practiced paying close attention to his father. He slowed himself down and tried to keep his awareness linked to his father’s breath. He served his father. He fielded the emotional crises of the other family members. He did everything, in short, that a devoted son would do—and he did it, as best he could, as an austerity, a practice.
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Elliot’s father died three months later, and Elliot sat through the funeral dry-eyed, still waiting for his heart to open. During the last hymn, he finally gave up hope. He slumped down in his seat, deeply tired, with no more effort left in him.
At that moment, like a small trickle from a dammed-up stream, he felt a stir of tenderness in his heart. It came softly, yet it was almost shockingly sweet. It was the love he’d been trying to feel. “It felt as if I’d tapped into some kind of big, impersonal loving energy,” he told me. “It didn’t exclude my father, but it definitely wasn’t about him. Instead, the feeling I had in that moment was that there was nothing but love. Everything was love. ‘Oh, my God,’ I thought, ‘I’m having a spiritual experience, right here at my father’s funeral!'” The thought struck him as so funny that he giggled—causing something of a commotion in the funeral chapel, as people turned to see what was making him laugh at such an inappropriate moment.
“I wondered where that love came from,” he told me. “Was it a reward for taking care of my father? If so, why wasn’t it there when I needed it, so to speak?”
I realized that behind Elliot’s question was an even deeper set of questions, ones that plague us all. They go something like this: If love is real, why doesn’t it feel the way I’ve always heard it was supposed to feel? Why can’t I feel it all the time? And why does love so often feel lacking, or painful, or both?
Most of us have been confused about love all of our lives. In fact, we often begin the inner life as a search—conscious or unconscious—for a source of love that can’t be taken away. We may have grown up feeling unloved or believing we had to perform heroic feats to deserve love. Our parents, the movies we see, our cultural and religious milieu give us ideas about love that go on influencing us long after we have forgotten their source. When we read spiritual books and encounter teachers, our understanding about love can get even more complicated, because depending on what we read or whom we study with, we get slightly different takes on what love means in spiritual life.
Some teachers tell us that our essence is love; others say love is a passion, an emotion that leads to addiction and clinging. If we’re on a devotional path like bhakti yoga, Sufism, or mystical Christianity, we’re often taught that the way to enlightenment is to fall in love with God and let that love grow until it engulfs us and we become one with the Beloved. If we’re on a more knowledge-based yogic path, we may be taught to look askance at the feelings of bliss and love that arise in practice, because, we’re told, the spaciousness that is our goal is beyond such feelings.
We are soon left to wonder where the truth lies in all of this. When spiritual teachers use the word love, what kind of love are they talking about? Is eros (romantic or sexual love) really different from agape, the so-called unconditional or spiritual love? Is devotional love the same as compassion, or love for humanity? Is love something we have to feel, or is it enough to offer kindness and direct positive thoughts toward ourselves and others? And how is it that some teachers tell us that love is both the path and the goal, while others seem to ignore the subject altogether?
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In spiritual life alone, the word love is used in at least three ways, and our experience and understanding of love will differ according to which aspect of it we are thinking about. For the sake of discussion, let’s refer to these three aspects of love as (1) Absolute Love, or the Great Love, which Ramakrishna, Rumi, and the teachers of the bhakti yoga and nondualist Tantra traditions tell us is ever- present, impersonal, and the very underpinning of the universe; (2) our individual experience of love, which is quirky, personal, and usually directed at something or someone; and (3) love as sadhana (practice).
Love with a capital L: That’s the Great Love, love as the source of everything, love as radical unity. At this level, love is another name for Absolute Reality, Supreme Consciousness, Brahman, God, the Tao, the Source—that vast presence the Shaivite tradition sometimes calls the Heart. The yoga tradition often describes Absolute Reality as satchidananda—meaning that it is pure beingness, present everywhere and in everything (sat), that it is innately conscious (chit), and that it is the essence of joy and love (ananda).
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As ananda, the Great Love is woven into the fabric of the universe, which of course also puts it at the center of our own being. Most of us get glimpses of the Great Love at some time in our lives—perhaps in nature, or with an intimate partner, or in the moment of bonding with our children. We remember these experiences for years afterward, often for the rest of our lives. We remember their numinosity, the feeling of deep connectedness they give us, and the fact that even when the love we feel seems inspired by someone or something in particular, it has a profoundly impersonal, universal quality. And sometimes, the Great Love hits us unveiled, as it were, and changes our lives.
It happened like that for me one November evening in 1970. I was sitting with a friend in my living room, listening to a Grateful Dead album, when without warning, an overwhelming experience of joy welled up in me. The state sprang up seemingly out of nowhere, a sensation of tenderness and ecstasy that seemed to ooze out of the walls and the air, carrying with it a sense that everything was a part of me.
This experience inspired a burning desire to get back to it and ultimately became the motive for my spiritual practice. At the time, however, I did what most of us do when we get a glimpse of unconditional tenderness: I projected my inner experience onto the person I happened to be with and decided (rather disastrously, as it turned out) that he was the love of my life and the mate of my soul.
All of us, throughout our lives, constantly do what I did—project onto other people and things the feelings of love that actually come from within. “It was the music,” we say. “It was Ned (or Sarah, or Jeannie). It was the surf! It was my teacher’s presence!” Yet the yogic view is that all of our experiences of human love are actually glimpses of the Great Love. (“God’s joy moves from unmarked box to unmarked box,” Rumi wrote. “It hides within these, till one day it cracks them open.”) It is only when love gets filtered through the prism of the human psyche that it begins to look specific and limited. It becomes veiled by our thoughts and feelings, and we start to think that love comes and goes, that we can feel it only for certain people, or that there’s not enough love to go around. We can’t help doing this.
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Our senses, mind, and ego, hardwired to give us the experience of separateness and distinction, set us up to think that love is outside us, that some people and places and things are lovable and others are not, and furthermore that love has different flavors: mother love, romantic love, love of movies, love of nature, compassionate love, sexual love, love of the cozy feeling of being under the covers at the end of a long day.
In short, if the Great Love is naturally unifying, our individual, human experience of love is subject to change and loss, moods and tides, attachments and aversions. It doesn’t matter who or what we love; at some point, the object of our love will disappear from our life or disappoint us or stop being lovable, simply because change is the nature of existence. So individual love is always touched with suffering, even when the love we feel is “spiritual.”
I once heard someone ask a great spiritual teacher, “Will loving you cause me to suffer the way I’ve suffered from loving other people?” The teacher replied, “If you love me in the way you’ve loved other people, you’ll suffer.” He was saying that as long as we think that love comes from something outside ourselves—even from God or a spiritual master—we are going to experience pain. Think of the agonies of the Sufi poets! Think also of the pain we suffer when, like my friend Elliot, we don’t feel loving enough, or when we can’t force love to come in the form we want it to, or when we feel lonely or unappreciated or self-deprecating, or when, despite the fact that we know attachment leads to suffering, we can’t help thinking that the love we were feeling came from Joe or Alice, and that love is gone because Joe or Alice is gone!
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To say that our individual experience of love can be unsatisfying or changeable or incomplete is not to say it is less real than the Great Love. It is the Great Love, which has simply been subject to filtration. The practice of yoga is about removing the filter, closing the gap between our limited experience and the experience of greatness we all hold inside. That’s the whole point of contemplative practice—especially the practice of loving.
The third kind of love—love as a practice—is the medicine for the terrible discrepancy we sometimes feel between our sense of what love can be and the actuality of our ordinary experience of it. The practice of love—actions and attitudes that create an atmosphere of kindness, acceptance, and unity in ourselves and in those around us—is not only the basis of spiritual life, it is also the basis of civilization. We can’t always feel gratitude, but we can remember to say thank you. We can’t always like other people, but we can try to pay attention when they talk to us and help them out when they’re in trouble. We may not feel good about ourselves all the time, but we can practice treating ourselves gently, slowing down and breathing when we want to rush, or talking back to our inner voices of self-criticism and judgment. When it comes to daily life, feeling love may actually be less important than acting loving.
This isn’t meant as an argument for pasted-on smiles, or for the common game of hiding anger and judgment behind a mask of false sweetness. The practice of loving is never about presenting a false front. Instead, it’s an active answer to one of life’s greatest questions: How can I, in spite of what I may be feeling at a particular moment, offer my best to myself and other people?
If you pose this query to yourself—or, better yet, ask yourself (as Elliot did), How would I act if I were feeling love?—you will eventually discover the practice that helps melt your frozen heart, so the love that always hides behind our emotional barricades can show its face. One of my students, caught in an argument with her stepson, asked herself, “How would I be if I really felt love right now?” The answer that came up was “relaxed.” So she practiced relaxing with the breath and was able to talk with her son without the clutch of fear and judgment that had been polarizing the two of them.
Over the years, two practices have helped me reconnect to the source of love. Both cultivate the feeling of unity. And both are based on the insight that the best way to bypass the ego, which cuts us off from love, is to learn how to undermine our feeling of separation.
The first is the practice of recognizing that the awareness in another person is the same awareness that is in me. Years ago, I had to work with a demanding, critical, narrow-minded boss. One day, when she was being particularly prickly, and I was especially aware of my discomfort in her presence, I gazed into her eyes, focused on the light reflected in her pupils, and reminded myself that the awareness, the life force, the presence that was looking out through her eyes was exactly the same as the awareness that was looking out through mine. Whatever differences there were in our personalities, our mental and emotional states, she and I were the same on the level of pure awareness. Not different but one.
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It amazed me to see how quickly the feeling of alienation and irritation disappeared. The practice of recognition became the strategy that allowed me to work comfortably with this woman, and I fall back on it now whenever I feel the absence of love. More than any practice I’ve ever done, it helps clean away the germs of alienation, irritability, and jealousy that block my mind and form barriers to the Great Love.
The second practice I use goes right to the heart of our sense of lack, to the secret feeling of not having enough love to give. The great lie that the feeling of separation fosters in us is the delusion of being unloved, or cut off from love, of there not being enough to go around. Not feeling loved ourselves, we pass on our sense of lack to others, so that even when we try to give love, what comes through instead is anxiety or clinging. Yet, as Rumi says in another of his great poems, love is always there, always available, always ready to pour itself out to us. “For 60 years,” Rumi writes, “I have been forgetful, / every moment, but not for a second / has this flowing towards me slowed or stopped.”
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine you are sitting in the center of a vast flow of love. Imagine that love is flowing toward you like water or passing into you like a gentle wind. Whether you actually feel this love or not, keep imagining that it is flowing toward you and into you.
Another way to receive love is to imagine that just outside the window of your room sits a compassionate and loving being, someone wise and incredibly forgiving. This person is watching you through the window; her glance protects you and surrounds you with sweetness.
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Allow yourself to receive the love that is flowing toward you from this being. If thoughts come up to block it—like “I don’t deserve this” or “This is just an exercise; it’s not real”—notice them and let them go as you might in meditation, saying, “Thinking,” and then breathing the thought out. Your only task is to receive.
When you open your eyes, look around you with the thought that the love you have been contemplating is still flowing toward you from whatever you see and from the air itself.
In truth, it is. The Great Love, the love that is the kernel of everything, is present in everything, peeking out during every moment in which we feel a spark of tenderness, appreciation, or affection. Any glimmer of love is a spark from that fire and leads us back to it.
Sally Kempton, also known as Durgananda, is an author, a meditation teacher, and the founder of the Dharana Institute.
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Source: http://sidawson.org/2012/03/learning-to-love-everything
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Unconditional love is a slippery little bugger.
The basic problem is judgement. As soon as our brain screams “This guy doesn’t deserve love” or “Yes he does!” then voila, it’s no longer unconditional.
Yes, even deciding someone does deserve love is not unconditional.
But ok, let’s back up a bit. Why the hell bother with love anyway?
Several reasons:
Check it: think of someone you really like. Now imagine them in front of you, while you’re being the nicest you possibly can be. You’re doing something they enjoy, saying something they adore hearing, and they’re happy happy happy. How do you feel? That’s right. Unbelievable.
Now true, there’s definitely an endorphin kick to improving someone else’s life (philanthropists aren’t in it just for the tax breaks), but the real secret is that it feels great to be loving. Even more so than being loved. Now that is a surprise.
Based on modern media, you’d think the happiest you could ever be is when someone (preferably on a horse, wearing armour, maybe holding their lance) loves you.. but it’s quite possible for someone to love the hell out of you while you remain stubbornly miserable. Trust me, I’ve been there (uhh, sorry, ex-girlfriends).
Why do you think limerance, those early stages of a new relationship, feels so great? It’s not just because someone is flattering us (while forgiving our *cough* more human aspects). It’s because we’re being unconditionally loving (ie the same) to them.
Not only that, but as our new lover holds a mirror to the best parts of us, we are unconditionally loving towards ourselves. For a brief moment all the self-criticism pauses and we are truly self-loving.
Being loving is peaceful, happy and it’s zero stress. It enhances our health and makes us a hell of a lot nicer to be around. Perfectly desirable, you might say.
On the flipside, non-loving feelings feel crappy, and who wants that?
Since being loving feels so great, why wouldn’t we want to feel it all the time? So how do you love consistently, without the ol’ lizard brain jumping in the way?
The trick is to make the decision to always love. Then keep reminding yourself as often as possible. This way you never have to make another “Does this person deserve love?” type decision. If your default response is to always love, you never need to think. It keeps your brain out of the picture altogether.
Now, I’m not usually a fan of either-or thinking, but in the case of love it’s useful.
Every thought or feeling can be easily divided into loving or non-loving. If it’s non-loving, we can simply let it go (I’ll explain how in a bit) and replace it with the opposite, loving feeling.
It’s the kind of assessment you can do without going via your brain: Loving is super easy to see; non-loving is everything else.
Keeping our brains out of it is critical. It stops us tying ourselves up in knots. Ye olde Keep It Simple, Sexy.
Best of all, it really doesn’t matter if you suck at being loving – or if you feel you’ve never experienced love. Every time you let go of a non-loving thought & decide to be (more) loving, things get a teensy bit better. It’s just a practice. Every step you take is a step in the right direction. It gets much, much easier the more you do it.
Oh, and you can always try (I did, with great success) “I love that I suck at loving”, “I love that I can’t (feel) love”and so on. Whatever feels right to you; It all helps.
As an end goal, if it was possible to be loving all the time about everything (spoiler: it is), then you’d feel great every second of every day, no matter what happened around you.
To start with, even feeling great for a moment is better than not, so it’s totally worth trying. You find joy onthe journey and every step towards that goal gets more joyful, and easier.
Of course, if you consciously want to feel crappy about something, this may not be the approach for you.. but that’s ok too. Everyone chooses their own path.
Now, what I’m talking about is being in a state of loving. Ideally always, but every second helps.
English is a little tricky here, since when we say “I love cheese” we’re talking about our attitude towards cheese. “I am loving cheese” indicates a state of being. It’s a subtle difference, but an important one. Unfortunately, “I am loving” is a far more passive sentence, so it’s less useful in practical terms, but I’ll get to that in a bit.
The short version is this: it’s quite feasible to say “I am loving about this” while holding onto non-loving feelings. Remember “love the sinner, hate the sin“ (and other hypocrasies)? Yeah, that.
So even though we’re aiming for “I am loving cheese”, it’s most powerful to say “I love cheese.” Uhh, or other, you know, not-cheese stuff.
Right. Enough of the chit-chat, how do you do this?
It’s very simple. You remember how to let things go, right? (hint: just choose to.) You’re the boss. Every voice that pops up “Wahh, I can’t because..” well, they’re wrong. Persistent, convincing, LOUD, yes, but wrong. You’re the boss. Just keep reasserting yourself, and bit-by-bit you will reclaim your inner power.
Now, think of something you hate. Something that bugs the hell out of you, really tickles your monkey. Now say (out loud, preferably.. and tapping your karate chop point, if you feel like an extra boost):
“I love (whatever it is)”
Feel the tension rising up? Getting pissed off? Brain screaming loudly “No, I don’t love it, because….[insert whatever bullshit reasons here].”
Yeah well, guess what, that bullshit coming up is not describing the issue, it is the issue. Letting go of those thoughts & feelings is what matters. That’s the paradox, the crux of it all. You let go of those feelings and voila:
a) it doesn’t matter whether the external situation continues or not, and
b) half the time the damn thing will disappear anyway.
Crap sticks around until we learn what we need to, then it moves on.
Love is the strongest positive emotion, so invoking that is guaranteed to bring up all opposing thoughts & feelings.
Just keep saying it and keep letting go until it’s all gone and you feel loving. That’s it.
This whole thing is about re-asserting your authority. You’re the boss, of your thoughts and of your feelings. You’re choosing to love, so that’s the end of it. Keep choosing it, keep letting go, and all that crap will disappear, leaving you peaceful and happy. The more you do it, the happier you’ll be.
You’re the boss, remember. If you choose to love something, even if you’ve hated it your whole life, well, that’s the way it’s gonna be from now.
Also, remember, you’re doing this for you, not for (what or whomever it is).
Say someone’s really hurt you. Ok, well, that sucks, sure. But listen, you feeling crappy about it now is only hurting you. Continuing to feel non-loving about it is only harming who? Yes, you. So, choosing to be loving is choosing to feel better about it. It’s deciding that you are the boss of how you feel.. and whomever it was that hurt you doesn’t have the power to continue making you feel bad now.
You are the boss of you, not them.
When you first do this, it may seem like the toughest thing in the world to say “I love (this terrible thing)” but you’ll get the hang of it. Just stick in there. Keep reminding yourself: You’re the boss.
A lot of times, just setting the intention is all that’s needed, and those non-loving feelings will dissipate in seconds. Yes, seconds. Sometimes with messier stuff you might need to sit with it a bit, or come back to it the next day. Maybe if it’s really overwhelming throw some EFT at it, but the key is to aim for feeling genuinely loving about it.
That’s all there is to it. It’s just a choice. Like choosing to lift your arm. Seriously.
So, for all the screaming our brain does – really it’s all bullshit. It’s our amygdala, our lizard brain trying to frighten us, telling us we have to freak out or we’ll die.
It’s always bullshit. You choose how you feel.
This doesn’t mean you have to put yourself in harm’s way. You can safely cross a road, but it’s not necessary to do it quivering in fear with tears streaming down your face. Get in a loving space first, and no matter how scary the road used to be, you’ll be optimally placed to cross it in a way that is most loving for you and everyone else involved.
Yes, it can take a little practice, but that’s ok. What’s the potential downside? You stay feeling as crappy as you do now about that situation. Not much of a risk.
In terms of getting started, you’ll get the biggest bang-for-your-buck by starting with the stuff that pisses you off the most. That’ll shift the most detritus, and having you feeling better the soonest.
Note above what I was saying about the subtle distinction between “I am loving” (the desired end state) and “I love this” (the most effective thing to say).
Now, there are many terrible things people do to each other, so let’s Godwin this discussion right away: What about Hitler?
11 to 17 million people killed. Jews, gypsies, blacks, Poles, Soviets, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, the disabled… all slaughtered in cold blood. How could we possibly love that? Wow, in fact, as I write this, even thinking “I love Hitler” is bringing up emotion, and I was born 30 years after he died.
Here’s the point: Even if I was in a position to do something about Hitler, I can do it from a loving place, or a nonloving place. Guess which is better, more powerful, will yield optimal results? Yep, that’s right.
Just ask Gandhi, he kicked the British Empire out of India. They had all the guns but he had all the love.
So, the reason we’re saying (in this ridiculous example) “I love Hitler,” is because what we’re doing is bringing up every single contrary thought and emotion, no matter how deep.
“I love (whatever)” is the single most powerful statement for pulling up this junk and clearing the subconscious.
The intent here is to get to a state of unconditional loving.
Becoming loving doesn’t mean that by some magical transference we suddenly lose 50 IQ points.
Quite the opposite. When we’re cleared of muddying emotional reactions, we’re no longer reacting like amoeba – stimulus-response, stimulus-response. Being loving brings clarity.
(Now, since we’re all little energetic sending & receiving stations, ultimately it will affect the other party too, but that’s a whole other conversation)
Additionally, in order to get to that loving place, we will clear out all the pain, anger and emotional trauma we’ve built up around the situation – whether real or imagined (and our imaginations are terrible things when it comes to self-torture after a traumatic event).
Let’s say you have a crappy relationship with someone at work. Do you really believe they don’t know you’re pissed off? We’re a lot more sensitive than we realise, even if we can’t always identify why. Getting into a state of loving about that person helps you. It makes your life better, regardless of their (mis)behaviour. Additionally, how assholish do you think they’re going to be if you do genuinely love them? Ha ha, really not. They’ll pick up on that too.
As surreal as this sounds, I’ve seen this several times in my life. People who’ve absolutely hated me, or even wanted to kill me (yes, I know!) – when I got into a place of pure loving towards them (which really just meant dropping all my antagonism) the situation naturally resolved itself, without me doing anything at all. They called saying they’d missed me, or out of the blue paid for a flight for me to go see them.. or, they just up and disappeared out my life altogether – and I don’t just mean “leave” I mean, “move city” or “move country.”
Never underestimate the power of love.
So, to get a damn good start, just work through all the stuff in your life that brings up non-loving feelings. Take ’em one at a time and just say “I love this”, feeling as loving as you can manage and letting go of all internal tension. If you can’t manage that, start with “I choose to love this.” Persist. You’ll get there.
How will you know what to start with? Easy. Whatever pops in your head. Don’t save it till later, get in the habit of just doing it wherever you are, whenever. That way you’ll be dropping stuff all day every day.
Now, non-loving thoughts can be a bit harder to identify than giant chunks of things-we-hate.
The subtle thing here is – how often do we think about something? Well, it’s hard to know, isn’t it. We have tens if not hundreds of thousands of thoughts a day but how many of those are we consciously aware of? Very, very few.
Tell you what though, the emotional payload that comes with these thoughts definitely affects us. Maybe only for a fraction of a second, but boy, it adds up.
So how do you get rid of stuff you can’t even see?
Here’s one neat way. Any time you have a non-loving thought, eg, “I suck at this”, respond in four ways:
Do this till you feel great.
Note the subtle variations in two and three. Not just loving the thought, but also any beating yourself up that came with it.
The phrase “I love the part of me that…” is super helpful here. It helps dissociate yourself from whatever-it-is, just enough to help let things go.
The trick, as I said, is the unconditional bit. Leave judgement at the door, ignore the why or why not and do it for everyone and everything. Get out of your head and into your heart.
Additionally, don’t worry too much about trying to figure any of it out. If you have an icky feeling, just say “I love this icky feeling” and let it go, without trying to nut out what it’s about or why. It’s much more effective.
I’m finding that often if I’m be feeling lethargic (say), I can spend a couple of hours trying to get to the bottom of why I’m lethargic and maybe figure it out. Alternatively, I can just say “I love that I’m feeling lethargic” and it floats away relatively effortlessly, without me ever having any idea what it was about. And really, if it’s gone, then who cares why?
I’ve been doing this for the last couple of months now, and every day is getting better than the one before. There’s a ton of related stuff I’ve discovered that ties into this but I’ll cover that later. This is the core. Do this one simple thing (love everything) and you’ll be amazed at how much better you feel, as you love all those non-loving thoughts & feelings away, and life gets exponentially better.
If you have trouble remembering the details, just do this: Any thought or feeling that arises, simply say “I love the part of me that…(whatever it is)” and let go of all tension that arises. Feelings come up because they want to leave. Repeat until you feel loving.
Give it a shot. See how you feel. Guaranteed you feel better, in exchange for almost no effort at all. How loving is that?
SOURCE: https://www.purposefairy.com/1178/love-everything-be-attached-to-nothing/
Luminita D. Saviuc 4, March 2017 Grace of Spirituality
“People try to hold on to life because they fear dying. But learning to live isn’t about grasping on to things. It isn’t about clinging to everything and everyone. It’s about learning to let go. Learning to live is learning to let go. Learning to let go is learning to be happy.” ~ 15 Things You Should Give Up to Be Happy
We get so attached to everything we have and everything we do. We get attached to our ideas, our way of doing things, to places, to things and the many people present in our lives, not knowing that all of our attachments will only bring us anguish, sorrow, and suffering.
Many of us can’t seem to grasp this idea of loving everything and being attached to nothing. Years ago I couldn’t understand it either, but as time went by and as I started to ponder upon this idea and as I started to practice it, I got better at it. I am not saying I am at the level where I can have things, where I can move from one place to another, where I can leave or be left by those I love without feeling sad. I really believe it takes time and practice to get there, but I am definitely way better at it than I was years ago.
It will be so much easier if we could appreciate what we have if we could appreciate our friends, our family if we could love all of them without being attached to them. I know it might sound crazy, insane, you name it, but think about it for a second, nothing in this world lasts forever… The people you love, they will leave you one day; the career you now have, one day it will be gone; the house you live in, one day will no longer be yours; the body you have, your beauty, your youth, they will all be gone eventually, and if that’s the case, why continue to pretend as if you are going to inherit the planet?
“Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.” ~ Lao Tzu
You see, most of us want to have many friends, to be loved, have beautiful things, the more expensive the better, to travel to beautiful places, live in big and beautiful houses etc., and I can tell you that I want most of these things as well, I want them all, but this isn’t the problem. The problem is that most of us get so attached to all of these things, all of these people, all of these places, and once we lose them, and one day we will all go through this, we will be heartbroken, devastated, and the pain will be so hard to bear. For me, this is a very dangerous approach to life.
Unfortunately, there are people who aren’t that strong, people who can’t deal with all the pain that comes from losing these things, and they might end up losing their minds, while others, may even end up taking their lives. Isn’t this a tragedy?
This is why we need to understand that nothing lasts forever, that people come and go, that things come and go, and that there are days when we have more, while other when we have less. Some days we might be healthy while other days we might be sick. Some days we might be safe and some days we might be in danger. It goes on, and on, and on. We can’t identify ourselves with this world, with what we have and what we don’t have, with what we do and what we don’t do, we can;t identify ourselves with our minds, with what we know, because, when we will be without those things, when we will no longer do the things we used to do, have the looks we used to have etc. , we will feel lost, abandoned and empty.
If we are what we do then when we don’t we aren’t right? Don’t you think it’s crazy? What does this even mean? That when we are born, we are nothing, nobody and as we go along, as we grow older and as we are being shaped by our family, school and society, we start becoming something and somebody? Does this make any sense to you?
Isn’t it interesting how some of us are considered more valuable just because we were born in a certain part of the world, while others not so valuable? Isn’t it interesting how some of us are seen as being more valuable because of our skin color and the language we speak? The clothes we wear, the friends we have, the schools we go to, the parents we have etc. ? Why do we do this to ourselves? Why do we put labels on people, things, places, ideas? I guide my life based on the idea that, the way you treat others will determine how others will treat you, and the way you treat life will determine how life will treat you and I try to empathize with others and I try to help as much as I can, whenever I can. I try to keep my mind open and allow new people, new ideas to enter my life, for I believe that they are all teachers of mine.
If a person is wiping floors for a living while you are the owner of that building, that does not give you the right to be disrespectful to that person. That does not make him a less of a person. You might think it does, but that’s not true. If it were to put you both in a room, naked, no clothes on, who will even know the difference between the rich and the poor, between the special and not so special?
I don’t believe, I KNOW, that we are all born equal, we are all one, and because we think otherwise, we live the life we live, in the world that we live. We can’t say that we live in a harmonious world. How can that even be possible, when we are constantly racing with one another? We are always trying to be better than everybody else, we are always trying to make more money, have bigger houses, bigger cars, expensive things so that we can differentiate ourselves from the not so special ones. More, more, more!
I know people who are so identified with what they do, the places they live in, the clothes they wear, the money they have, that they lost all of their humanity, they lost track of who they really are. This kind of people has won the world but lost their souls. They think that money, power, fame, and fortune is all that life is about, always looking to gain more, to be better than everybody, to be number one etc. , but how many of them are really content with the life they have?
I guess you have all heard the stories of those wealthy people who lost their fortunes, and because of that, they decided to put an end to their lives. This is what happens when you only live for accumulating more, and more, and more, and this is what happens when you identify yourself with all of them. Where is the peace in that? These people will never be content no matter how much they accumulate for they will always look to those who have more than they have and they will feel that they don’t have enough… living with the fear of losing it all.
I personally am working on being content with who I am at the moment, with what I do and what I have, and I will express my gratitude for everything I have achieved so far, for the wonderful people that are present in my life and for the wonderful people that keep on showing up, for the wonderful person I have become, and I will try to love myself, I will try to love the people who are present and not so present in my life, and I will work on giving up on my attachments to them, because I now understand that this is for my own good.
“Things arise and she lets them come; things disappear and she lets them go. She has but doesn’t possess acts but doesn’t expect.” ~ Lao Tzu
Now, it is up to you to decide whatever you think it’s best for you.
~love, Luminita
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