What is Love?
Creating Love in your life is one of the most important things you will ever do. But, before you can create it, you have to know what it is..... so, what is love?
It's the warm and delicious feeling that starts in your heartspace and spreads through your whole being like soft butter over hot popcorn. If you let it keep growing, this feeling called love, will take over your body and your mind. This feeling can even take you beyond time into bliss!
Love makes you feel alive.....like your are going to burst with joyful energy!
Now, you know that love is simply a feeling.....and if you want the feeling to grow, your mind must plant the seed of love in the soil of "surrender" in your heartspace. You must, temporarily, set aside your anger and frustrations with yourself and others. Then, give this seed some time, and water it with patience and positive thoughts and you can watch love grow inside you. Over time, it will create cracks in your rigid, negative view of the world. It will expand the inner space in your chest. It will expand appreciation of your own loving nature and then the world around you.
But, before you can create it, you have to know what it is..... so, what is love?
Love is an energy that makes you feel alive.....like your are going to burst with joy!
So, where does this feeling called love come? Why does it nurture you by turning you into a feeling? How does it expand your mind so much that you forget yourself and let all the barriers fall away?
What is this big, open space? What is its source?
GOD, TAO, BRAHMAN, NATURE, WICCA..... you can name it whatever you want but just know that its source is greater than you... that this source is the Source of "All That Is" and you are physically wired to experience it when you forget to remember yourself. And Love is the key that opens that door!
According to many wise sages,
GOD IS LOVE, so say the sages throughout time.
GOD IS BLISS, so say the writings of the wise.
GOD IS THE BEST OF ALL SOULS.
And, if this is so, of course you feel wonderful when you allow the feeling of love to grow inside your heartspace - if you just let it flow through you out into the world! Share it. Radiate it through your smile, your touch your actions and words. You can make the world more loving today by acting from a space of love.
And, if the Universe sourced from singularity, then, at its Essence lies this feeling called LOVE!
I think of Nature as God's Love Creation. That's why it is so beautiful to the eye, so inspiring to the spirit and so intriguing to the mind. And like Nature, this feeling of love that originates in the Universal Mind and Universal Heartspace flows through everything.
As a visionary philosopher/scientist, I think of Life appearing as matter and energy dancing in the time/space continuum at various wave frequencies. When I see beauty in nature, experience grace in movement , my mind opens to the AWE of it all: I am enveloped in a feeling of Love! I feel One with
ALL THAT IS!
Now, I realize I didn't create this feeling of love after all; I just opened up my mind and my heartspace up to my original state of being. I am choosing to be in Love with Life.
This is the great mystery of Love and like all of Life's great mysteries, the experience is Free. Just open your mind and allow the experience to happen.
Maybe you will try some of the following experiences this week that help me feel love:
1 - Ponder my perspective on love. Mull it over in your mind.Contemplate it. Look for beauty and acts of kindness performed by others. Allow cracks to grow in your negative view of the world. Let love open the space in your chest. Expand your feelings of appreciation for this gift of life.
2- Think about someone you love. Notice your heartspace open up. Your mind space feels bigger. Now think about someone you dislike/hate and notice what happens to your heartspace. Notice how your energy contracts, how your mind withdraws. Notice the ball of negativity in your gut. Notice how your own lack of love shuts you off from feelings of love.
3 - Close your eyes and direct some deep breaths into the ball in your belly. Practice breathing a feeling of being without judgment into the ball in your gut. Let it soften and relax your inner space. Now let the feeling flow upward into your heartspace. Imagine yourself falling backwards
into a soft cloud that catches you and keeps you feeling safe. That soft cloud is the feeling of love.
4- Visit my Patreon site (homepage menu) to learn and enjoy more body & mind tools that generate love within you. Just look under the tag "Love" .
Have a day that is blessed with feelings of love,
Melinda
Published 02/02/2023
