4/17/14

Re-Focusing on LOVE

There is a common thread among all people:  To be loved.  Most of us know the rich and lovely feeling of being loved.  Warm, intimate, secure and unfaltering.  Yet for most of us as well, love we once had sometimes seems to vanish and we are left feeling broken inside.  Our spouse leaves, our children may leave, our parents may abandon us or sometimes others may do cruel things leaving us feeling "unloved."

Often our view of love has been put there by our upbringing and society.  Based on our relationship with our parents or those who have raised us, we may "fall in love" with someone just like our mom or just like our dad, completely without even realizing it.  We'll pattern our relationships after them as well.  Inside we know that's how mom treated dad or dad treated mom.  It makes a subconscious rule for us to follow.  That's how we learned "love".  That's how we were taught. Even though they themselves may not have had healthy patterns of "love" to begin with.

We have also acquired our learning from mainstream society.  "True love" may equal candy, flowers, romance, or even a great big diamond.  Family dinners, spending time with dad, or going fishing, can all lead us to self defined definitions of love.  We saw it on the TV, the ad says true love is a "Kays Diamond".

When we enter into relationship then, we expect and want those things that we have been told are associated with "love".  Often we are disappointed because the things we have been taught and told rarely have anything to do with real love.  Yet we are left feeling hurt.  The diamond wasn't big enough, dad didn't go fishing with us, and family dinners are not even on the calendar.  Now we equate love to disappointment, not realizing it wasn't love that disappointed us, it was our self defined expectations of love that failed us.  "Love" itself really had nothing to do with it, but our "misqualification", our distorted thoughts about what love should be, does.  In an imperfect world, with imperfect people, we still want and seek perfect love - according to our own self imposed rules.

The misqualification of this very precious energy is distorted by our views of it.  We define it according to how we were raised and what we get from our culture and society, even our religions.  What might be right then for one, may not be right for another, yet would you not agree there really is only ONE pervading energy of love?  Perhaps it cannot be defined by human terms.  Perhaps the answer is in it's mere creation and from the very source of where it came from - god.

There is a difference in human love and divine love.  Often after many hurts, we, as humans, shut our hearts down.  We close ourselves off to love.  Love, we say, has hurt us.  We have been abandon, we have been abused, we have been cut off from the person or persons we once thought "loved" us and that we "loved".  All too often this scenario plays out among the masses of people on the earth, yet it is not love that has hurt us, it is the human misqualification of love that has.

True love, its flowing, everlasting, amazing and lift you off of your feet kind of love comes from a sacred place.  We all seek it because we know it so well.  It was the very love we were created from.  It's source flows through our veins. We long for it again and we often seek it out under human terms.  Looking for something outside of us, not realizing it is already within.

I've heard it said there are two choices that we always make when we take action.  We either act from love or we act from fear.  Human love most often acts from fear.  We fear someone will hurt us again.  We fear not being loved. We fear being alone.

Divine love, the kind that we are made of, always acts from love itself.  Yet if you don't know you are a divine being, then how would you know how much you are really already loved?  Love is within you, it always has been, and always will be.  We just need to remember how to "feel" that love again.

When we shut down love in our hearts, we shut down love in the world.  Let's refocus on love and it's true source.  Let's begin to access divine love.  Accessing love from the father is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself.  His love is unconditional, unfaltering and will never leave you high and dry.  His care for the earth, it's creatures, all rhyme and all reason, every bird and every season has meaning and care under his wings.  It doesn't matter if you believe in religion, god, Buddha or Elvis Presley.  What does matter, is that you must know love exists if you seek it. Connect with the love that you seek.  Because we all know we can't seek something out if we didn't already know about it to begin with.  Somewhere inside of you you have "felt the love" you seek already.  Maybe all you need is a little guidance to help you find it again.

Imagine floating in a cloud.  The billowy cloud encompasses every inch of your being.  You are clothed in it, bathed in it's pure white light, frothy essence and divine splendor.  Every cell in your body vibrates with it's nurturing light.  You can feel the warmth of the cradling of the cloud and your entire being becomes relaxed and brilliant.  Soon you feel the light of the cloud enter through the top of your head and travel down to your heart.  There sits a seer and the seer is awakened at the sight of this most brilliant light.  Your heart center begins to warm and you can feel the energy spreading through your chest like heat.  Ask the seer to help you.  Ask him to show you what blocks you from love.  Then ask him to show you how to let those fears about love go.  Allow him to help you in the future and ask him to be there whenever you need strength, whenever you need a companion and whenever you feel you need love.  This seer is you in your higher form.  The form that sits close to god.  The form that knows you are love and that love is you.

Allowing love in our lives isn't just a fluffy analogy.  It is the vibrant force that is the source of all creation.  When we let it flow within us and through us, that source energy infiltrates the planet and all things around us.  Let love in today and tomorrow you will realize that the love we all seek has been with us all along.  Then when we find someone we can share that love with, it's essence will be that much richer, that much fuller because now we know what real love feels like.  When you can feel divine love within yourself, it's that much easier to see and feel the divine love from another.  Now love doesn't hurt anymore.  We recognize it for what it is.  Our attention on love must be refocused to it's source.  When we choose to love then, let it flow from that source through us.  When we feel hurt from love, let us remember it's not that love hurt us.  It is either our misqualification of that love or another's misqualification of this precious energy.

We can't be responsible for the actions, the thoughts, and the misqualifications of energy that others put on love, but we can be responsible for our own definition of it; our own thoughts about love.   When you know love is always divine, whether from a human or our father, then love doesn't hurt anymore.  It's essence remains pure and the hurts of yesterday with love become clear.  They are only hurts from misactions and thoughts associated with love.  Love itself never fails and love itself will never leave you.  The reason is simple - you are love.




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