Love, Lessons and introspection!

 

I have been guided to really ponder Love.  To accept Love as the WAY!  I have written this before, but it is time for us to have a conversation with Love.  Each of us should take the time to really grasp the concept of Love from their highest authentic perception.

To love – to love life without regard for yesterday, and without regard for tomorrow.  In the most basic of ways & teachings – time isn’t real!  Only NOW is real!  Right now, in this moment, only this is real.  All other thoughts, all other ideas, all past memories, all past wrongs, judgements and pain, all of these are just experiences that are no longer real.  Huh? 

What do you mean they aren’t real? 

Well, are these things happening now, or are you simply thinking about them?  Obviously, you are just thinking about them – which then makes them un-real.  You aren’t experiencing them (other than in your thoughts) you are merely reliving the trauma inside of your mind.  Let it all go!  Let all of it go!  It is over and done with and does not reflect Love.  Look at your past, feel your past and then express gratitude for your past.  Express gratitude for the lessons of your past, honor everyone who helped you evolve and then move on.  Love the experience – for you will not need to experience this again – IF you stop and learn from the experience.  If you do not understand WHY something happened, you are destined to repeat it! 

Take responsibility and accept that whatever the issues were – they were not conceived out of love, they were conceived out of fear.  This may still be difficult to grasp – Think of a time in which someone “wronged” you, or a time when you wronged someone else.  Now, ask yourself if the manner in which you handled it was based in fear, or based in love.  It’s OK.  Don’t judge yourself – see your actions and behaviors for what they were…and be honest with yourself.  Did you respond in fear, or did you respond in Love? 

Once you accept your actions, now you are aware of them.  Now you can better understand them.  (you can also better understand the actions of others – by choosing to respond to your environment with love you are able to see when others respond out of fear.  And we have all done these things, we have all been scared, we have all been anxious, nervous, sad, etc)  At this point, Now you can get the “aha” moment, or the “duh”, no wonder that happened realization.  Once you recognize WHY the thing happened, you are wiser.  You can now apply this wisdom into your NOW moment.  Your NOW moment is no longer resonating in fear.  So, when someone cuts you off in traffic, instead of screaming and cursing and getting angry – now you take a deep breath, you see the actions of the reckless driver and you send them healing, compassionate energy.  You send prayers to them – now you understand that sometimes we are all in a hurry.  Sometimes we have an emergency and we are freaking out and, well, what we really need is for someone to show us some love.  We need someone to give us a hug, to tell us it’s going to be alright.  This is love.  We are no longer judging the behaviors b/c we have learned from our own.  We can see the anxiety and we can heal them by sending them some peace.   We do not need to fix them, or even stop to speak with them.  Instead, we can simply have loving thoughts and send those loving thoughts to them.  No anger, no frustration – only compassion and empathy!    

To love means to honor and cherish all life.  To see the value in all situations.  And to find the good within one’s heart to express compassion, empathy, generosity and kindness.  The days of old where we fought, where we struggled, where we judged and condemned are OVER!  Those are OLD and outdated programs which must be released from our minds.  Sometimes we forget our NOW moment and get caught up in the misery game of the past.  We get caught up in the projections and judgements of others.  We get caught up in the thoughts that are invading our minds.  When we are in a state of love we are able to recognize these feelings and bring ourselves back to the present moment.  We are able to stop, think and listen to ourselves.  We are able to go within and remember that we are here now, we are not there any longer.  And, since we aren’t there anymore, we don’t have to keep our mind focused on there anymore.  And yes – it is this simple!  Only our EGO, selfish self wants validation.  Only our selfish self wants resolution.  When we return to the NOW, when we look around, when we feel our NOW moment, we realize that most of what we THINK is going on, is in fact just our mind pretending that something is going on.  This sounds a little strange – but, if/when we stop, take a breathe, and make note of our current situation and surroundings, we can see that what is going on within our mind is NOT the same as what is happening in our present physical reality.  This may still sound a bit awkward – but if we will ponder these ideas we will find truth within them. 

To love a stranger, is to love thyself. 

Each one of us is a divine spark.  Each one of us is a soul with great purpose.  Each one of us is on our own journey of self discovery – and that self discovery requires others to assist us in finding our true self.  Other people provide us with so much important information.  They are the mirror.  They show us where we still have traumas and judgements to heal.  Here is a simple exercise:  The next time you go out and you see a homeless man, or a very obese person, or someone else whom you judge – listen to the thoughts that you project about them.  Listen to your judgements – are you projecting love or fear with your judgements?  Whatever your judgements are, is exactly what YOU need to learn.  WHY do you think the way that you do?  Why do you judge the way that you do?  What is this person trying to teach you?  Maybe they are teaching you self-respect, or maybe they are teaching you humility b/c when they were a child, they had their lymph nodes removed b/c the medical profession poisoned them and now their body can’t regulate the necessary hormones.  You see, your judgement of the obese person is just your ASSUMPTION of them NOW.  You have no basis or truth for how they got here, you simply make an assumption, and then criticize them for being overweight.  I can go on and on about the possible lessons each situation can teach us.  Maybe you are someone who fears having nothing, so you hoard things and money and no matter how much you have, it’s never enough.  You fear having nothing!  You live in a constant state of fear and lack and cannot find inner peace or happiness no matter how much stuff or money you acquire.  And now you come across a homeless man and he is happy and content and he owns nothing.  This homeless man can teach you (without doing anything) how to be in gratitude, how to appreciate all that you have, how to stop worrying about your stuff and to see that everything we need is right here inside of us.