February Newsletter – What’s love got to do with it?

Loving – in the Present Moment

Until we are able to live comfortably in the present moment, we are unable to truly experience love…

The media and shops are full of Valentine’s merchandise, but this “love” is a pale reflection of the real, deeper love our soul seeks.

THE SEARCH FOR UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
Underlying most people’s desires in life is a deep yearning to be loved, loved without conditions, to be loved unconditionally.
Many people search for this fulfilment in romantic love, hoping it will make them feel whole and secure — forever. If this is you, then you are searching in an illusion for that which can only be found in reality. The illusion that something or someone on the outside can fulfil the emptiness you feel inside inevitably leads to disillusionment, with more pain and suffering as the result. Do you relate to this?

AN INVITATION TO AWAKEN
Now is the time to awaken and release old, outmoded belief patterns that may have kept us bound in karmic cycles.

REALITY EXISTS ONLY IN THE NOW
Reality is not in time – not in time past or time future – but only ever in the present moment, here and now. The end result of seeking love in time will always be disillusionment. For what is here and now cannot be sought; it can only ever be realised, opened up to, surrendered to, allowed, and accepted as the isness of the ever-present Now.

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR AWAKENING
If it’s to be, it up to me
Opening up to love is an inside-out process rather than an outside-in one. That is, love has nothing to do with the myriad of forms “out there”, and everything to do with the conscious awareness that we are.

RELATIONSHIPS MIRROR THE RELATIONSHIP WE HAVE WITH OURSELVES
Until we learn to love (accept, forgive & appreciate) ourselves, all our relationships – which are mirrors – will ultimately be experienced as lacking.  They will be dysfunctional. They will be co-dependent, rather than inner-dependant and expanded expressions of true love.
And what is love, but the lived consciousness of acceptance, allowing, and appreciating, and where forgiveness becomes superfluous as one realises there is never anything, in truth, to forgive.

We will be exploring even more of this understanding, providing real life tools to reach this point of love experience, in our upcoming Hogsback Retreat in March.  (More details below)

REALISING OUR TRUE NATURE
It is only by knowing (realising) who and what we are at the deepest level that true love can be revealed, and experienced, in our lives. Only through this spiritual awakening can the full depth of love be reflected back to us by the world around us. By seeing through the illusion of separateness (the ego), and recognising the true depth of one’s own source and essence, true agape love is then realised.

THREE LEVELS OF LOVE
In Dr Wayne Dyer’s lecture Divine Love, he quotes Peter Deunov, a Bulgarian spiritual teacher (1864–1944), who describes three levels of love, which I have paraphrased below:

1. Human love – controlled by the needs of our ego as well as our biology, and therefore conditional. This love has many ups and downs, comes and goes, and is a function of time and circumstance. It changes and has an opposite called hate.
2. Soul love – a love that is always present, yet still changes in depth with circumstances and time, like a parent’s love for their child; it too has ups and downs.
3. God’s love or Divine Love – which never varies; always constant, never increasing or diminishing. It is unconditional and exists in total ecstasy for what is.

MADE IN THE IMAGE OF DIVINE LOVE
Now contemplate this: you were made in the image and similitude of this Divine Love. God / Source Consciousness made you in this image and likeness – not going to make you, or will make you at some future time when you have obeyed all the rules. No – you are already made. Full stop!

ALREADY WHOLE, ALREADY LOVED
Believe it or not, you are already complete and whole, and one with this Infinite and Unconditional Love. There is nothing you could ever have said or done – or will ever say or do – and nothing that has ever been said or done to you in all of time and space, that could lessen or diminish this love, your true being. This love is eternal and unconditional, omnipresent and omniscient. This is what loves you and sees who you really are – always have been, and always will be.

REMEMBERING WHAT WE HAVE FORGOTTEN
I know for many people this is impossible even to imagine, yet this is so. You cannot not be what you already are! For whatever reason, many people have drifted away from this knowing (gnosis) and have completely forgotten it.

OUR WORK IN THIS TIME
Our most important work right now, as we pass through an auspicious time in human history, is to awaken to this deep realisation – to remember who and what we truly are.

RE-COGNISING THE I AM
The most important task for us as humans is to bring back into our awareness the full remembrance of our divinity – to recognise it in our own eyes. To re-cog-nise the I Am that I Am.

A MIRROR PRACTICE FOR SELF-LOVE
Louise Hay recommended a wonderful exercise to help open our awareness to this Love – an exercise that has changed the lives of millions of people worldwide:
Look into your eyes in the mirror every morning when you first get up and say out loud your first name, followed by:
“I love you unconditionally, right now, exactly as you are.”
Try this for one month. You’ll be amazed by the changes – both in how you feel inside and in your relationships with others, as well as how other people respond to you.

SEEING ‘THE ONE’ IN EVERYONE
A second exercise, which is extremely powerful, is this: see everyone you meet as another you, just in disguise. Practice this daily, and feel the love of your true being return into your awareness.

WHAT THE WORLD NEED NOW IS MORE LOVE
If you would like to deepen and enrich this aspect of your life, then do consider taking the opportunity to join us at The Edge Mountain Retreat in Hogsback, where the magic of the mountains, forests and waterfalls, help us to shift in miraculous ways and awaken to what we have long forgotten.

To book a private life-guidance session with me  Email. 

Much love