3 ways to love more; Set the conditions, Wait, Repeat setting conditions and waiting.
Starting with an old adage that there is only love and all else is an illusion, lets us know that loving ourselves or others, is always available.
We do, through our limitations of body and mind, require ourselves to do a little work in this area.
We as adults come with baggage.
Old belief patterns, traumas, hurts, wounds, judgements, criticisms, opinions, rules etc.
Marianne William on wrote a “return to love” because it seems when the conditions are set right, and we wait, we have experiences of love, and we “return” to what was always there…love.
We don’t necessary live in a loving state all the time.
We are constantly working toward that state.
We are working through our own ‘stuff’.
And when the conditions are set right, maybe through your personal practices, your experiences, your choices, your network of people, whatever sets the conditions, we have a moment where we transcend our day to day judgements and experiences, and lift to an UNCONDITIONED state which is LOVE.
You see the CONDITIONS of mind and body, with its various tensions both physically and psychologically, keep us from the ever present experience of love.
That’s why having a network of people, practices, and time to experience life in an UNCONDITIONED state is part of the prep work for you to actually transcend the mind, and feel the grace of love.
Ways we can set the conditions;
1.Read high awareness types of literature
2. Practice breath work or other body centred practices to free up bound tension
3. Do creative work such as writing, painting, cooking or other things that allow your energy to flow
4. Do nothing. relax and let your own mind unwind into itself.
I’m sure you can think of many things that place you in a peak state of flow, ease and that just genuinely allow you to love yourself and others much easier.
Discover that one or two practices that you know completely align with you, and commit to those over the next 10 weeks, so the gratitude we experience is just the icing on the cake, not a reminder of what you’ve forgotten.
All the best,
Dr. Steve
