| "I had a choice in my life, to either love or hate, and I | | | | not just people but things like the ocean or a favorite |
| am glad I chose love". | | | | pet. Let it shine. |
| This was spoken by one of the Slum dog Millionaire | | | | 5. Next send it to out to the world. Send the light to all |
| Oscar winners on last Sunday night and it really gave | | | | the parts of you that needs this love. |
| birth to my thoughts about LOVE. Lately, I have been | | | | 6. Try visualizing the light of love covering your fears, |
| learning a lot about love. What is love? Love in our | | | | your anxieties, your child within, your creative thoughts, |
| most traditional sense is a feeling that is supposed to | | | | and finally finish by covering your whole self with this |
| be felt by one being to another, the dictionary defines | | | | light. |
| Love as: affection, devotion, it means a deep and | | | | 7. Remember you can tap into your love by using this |
| enduring emotional regard, usually for another person. | | | | exercise, the next time you feel anxious, alone or sad. |
| But from a spiritual perspective, love is more than a | | | | This type of love is free and accessible at all times |
| feeling reciprocated to another. | | | | within you. Best yet, it is not dependent on any other |
| It is an endless well of positive energy that dwells | | | | being but yourself. Use it to reflect love to others, to |
| inside us. We can tap into this endless source by going | | | | nature and most of all to yourself. Trust me, as human |
| within to find it. The love that is unconditional that loves | | | | beings we are dependent on loving others but we can |
| us, no matter what and that never goes away from | | | | chose to love in a freer and more independent way |
| us comes from within. If we are able to tap into this | | | | that is less toxic and more from a balanced place. Use |
| well of love we can heal ourselves, love others freely | | | | love to grow the lotus inside your heart. Once you can |
| and unite ourselves with a higher potential. | | | | tap in, you will come back for more and you will never |
| To love everyone and everything the same, is freeing. | | | | be "lonely" anymore. |
| The best way to empower yourself is to accept | | | | * Make all your actions from a place of love, in not |
| putting the love for your self first. It allows room for | | | | looking for love in a partner, you will actually find it, by |
| you to forgive and let go. Love is a mirror into our own | | | | first finding it in yourself. The universe will recognize |
| soul. It is a mirror into each and every one of us. We | | | | your love energy and it will put it out there and attract |
| are all united by it. I am so saddened when I see so | | | | the love you need to be reflected back at you when |
| many people stuck in relationships because they need | | | | you are ready. You cannot go out and look for love |
| to feel 'love" this is not love, this is co-dependency. It is | | | | from the outside, it must come from within. |
| a craving for affection, a void they a filling up, like a | | | | Here are two of my favorite quotes on love to reflect |
| junkie on heroine. Real love, does not need another to | | | | on: |
| feel it, it is already inside us. Healthy love, is only | | | | "Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to |
| reflected back to us by our partner. | | | | nourish. If you are not capable of generating that kind |
| To tap in: | | | | of energy toward yourself- if you are not capable of |
| 1. Find a quiet and safe place to sit and close your | | | | taking care of yourself, of nourishing yourself, of |
| eyes. | | | | protecting yourself- it is very difficult to take care of |
| 2. Take some deep breaths through your nostrils. | | | | another person. In the Buddhist teaching, it's clear that |
| 3. Try visualizing your heart place. See your heart. | | | | to love oneself is the foundation of the love of other |
| 4. Next see the light within your heart. You can choose | | | | people. Love is a practice. Love is truly a practice." |
| to portray this as a candle flame or just a simple ray | | | | (Shambhala Sun March 2006 by Thich Nhat Hahn) |
| of light. Once you see this light, feel the love that | | | | "Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in |
| emanates inside you through this light. See all you love, | | | | looking outward together in the same direction". |