The Power of Love

This week we move to the 4th chakra and explore unconditional love.  This is the energy that resides in the heart center when it is balanced and open.  We probably spend more time and energy on this center than on any other in our lives.  We sing of love, we long for love, wars have been fought over love………

Unfortunately, much of the love we profess is conditional love.  If you do this for me, I will do this for you.  If you love me, I will love you in return.  This is the love of the ego not of the heart.

The closest we get to unconditional love is probably with our children.  They can ignore us, talk back to us, make choices we do not support……..but at the end of the day, we still love them with all our hearts.

The power of love asks a great deal of us.  A good place to  begin is to practice  unconditional love for yourself.  In EFT the default statement is “I deeply love and accept myself”.  Can you comfortably say that?  Can you look in the mirror and say that to yourself?    If not begin with, “If I COULD, I would deeply love and accept myself.”  Notice what feelings come up as you say these words.  You may feel foolish at first but this is a powerful practice.  We can only give what we have inside ourselves.

You may notice this about yourself.  You may find that it is easier  to love what you view as the good within yourself, not so easy to love the self that you are ashamed of .  The part of yourself that may explode in anger or that plays the victim.  But in this practice we must learn to love even those parts of ourselves.

We may feel that if we love and accept those parts of our self (or another) that we view as negative  that we are condoning the behavior.  However, the more we can accept, have compassion and love ourselves (or another) the more we begin to soften and allow positive  change to occur.

This week begin to send more love to yourself.  Develop more patience, kindness, compassion and gentleness with yourself.  As you do this for yourself, you will notice it is easier to do this with others.  To those you love, send more love.  For those who challenge you, let your hearts prayer be. ” Let me learn more about how to love them today.”

We will look more at another aspect of the heart center next week, forgiveness.

As we move deeper into self love and into the deeper levels and possibilities of love within our etheric hearts, life becomes ever richer.

All my love, melaniej