| It is not uncommon for love to be used in many different ways. Of course, there is the love between man and woman or between lovers of any description, a love for family, the love for pets, the love for food. One also hears that god is love and that universal energy is love, that we are made of love or surrounded by it. But do we really understand what love is or how it effects our lives on a day-to-day basis? Most of us at some point in our lives were lucky enough to experience the full opening of our hearts and love. Sometimes it is in a 'falling in love' setting, it may be the love of our newborn child or it may be falling in love with the world or life. But what is this love? What does it mean? Is it reserved for special moments, special couples or special families? It is true that love is the energy from which all of the physical world is created. Some people will differentiate types of love, but, in fact, there is only one love. Love is the creative, intelligent force that is expressing in a multitude of ways. The human body feels love by way of the heart, specifically through a group of cells that have the same makeup as other mind cells throughout the human body. The cells are like a translator between the human mind and the cosmic source. When we fall in love, the energetic connection between our heart and mind becomes fully open and we become connected to the creative source of the universe. When we feel love in any situation, it could be said that we are recognizing god and allowing ourselves to feel our connection with god. Falling in love returns us to an open, loving, creative state which is a natural state. It is not uncommon for this state to be dismissed as silly, foolish, temporary, or not real. But in reality it is a time when we see things most clearly as how they are. We see the perfection of the one we are in love with and most often that is extended into the world around us and we see the perfection of the world around us also. We often experience extended moments of creativity and manifestation when we are in love because our alignment with the universe is so powerful. The truth is that moving out of that state is caused by fear and by pressure from the outside world. It is not something that has a natural end. There is no reason that we cannot aim to live our lives as if we are in love all the time, for the truth is: there is only love. The universe is unfolding perfectly in every moment through the force of love. We are built for love. We have a rare ability to be conscious of love, to feel it and to know it. Most of us will recognize the feeling that everything is o.k. when we feel connected with love. We just know that the world is o.k., things are proceeding just fine, and everything is unfolding perfectly when we allow ourselves to experience love. When we are in a loving state, all of our needs are met. We have all the opportunities we could ever use to express ourselves. We have all the power we need to have the life we want. To get to this place of loving, our hearts need to be open, which really means that the connection between our hearts and our minds must be open. This often means surrendering control and trusting that the universe will take care of us. Many of us have learned that this is a dangerous proposition and that loving only leads to being hurt. These beliefs come from a time when we were powerless to take care of ourselves and were dependent on others. The withdrawal of love meant certain death; we were dependent on our parent's love to keep us alive. Due to their own difficulties with keeping their hearts open, we experienced our families rejecting or abandoning us. This caused great fear and pain, leading us to believe that it was not safe to keep our hearts open. As hard as it may seem to believe, the truth is that if our parents had not loved us, we would not be alive today. Even though they may have not been able to express that in a way that allowed us to experience that, it is nevertheless true. The truth is that it is not opening our hearts that is dangerous, it is refusing to open them that will hurt us the most. The pain and grief that we are so afraid of as we begin to open our hearts is merely the experience of the blocks that we put in place and the grief that comes up is what opens those blocks and allows the energy to flow between our heart and our mind. It takes courage to open our hearts and face this pain and grief, but there really is no other way to become the loving, open, creative people that we really are. |
