Waking Up to Love

Waking up to love has got to be the most amazing experience in my life so far. 

No, there wasn't anyone in bed next to me, and no, I haven't fallen for yet another man.  I woke up today feeling love for myself, without condition.  I felt that love from the Creator/Goddess of all things for ME!   I also felt that love flowing from me to everyone and everything in the world.  Peace, love and bright light.

How did I reach that point in my life, and how can I stay there?

Every moment is of love or of fear;  fear of losing love.  The fear is reinforced by our perceptions of the past when we thought we were not loved, by our perceptions of not being loved right now, and by our fear that we won't be loved in the future.

These perceptions of not being loved are based on how we were conditioned growing up, and can carry over from generation to generation as we pass it on.

We are taught that external things are what show us that we are loved.  But the external things are imitations, and they are also short lived.  We are taught that people, things and situations are what define if we are loved which is the core of our happiness.

People change or die, things are stolen, break or deteriorate, and situations never stay the same.  So our ability to be loved and happiness are unstable with this conditioning, and we are consistently kept distracted by them.

That is until we begin our internal searching.  The instability of external things leaves us wanting and we will eventually turn inward for the search.  The amount of time it takes for us to turn inside ourselves is dependant on how long it takes us to surrender our conditional laws of love.

These conditional laws of love vary from person to person because everyone has experienced life differently.  This is another circular pattern that keeps us trapped in fear.  We are taught that in order to be lovable we must be loved by external people.  We are also taught that to love other people they should obey our conditional laws of love.  If this differs by person, and they can often contradict each other, we will find ourselves always letting someone down somewhere sometime.  This explains so much of why we often feel so unlovable.

Only when we realize that we are already unconditionally loved by the Creator/Goddess of all things can we truly surrender all our conditions of love and love ourselves and everyone else unconditionally.

We are held captive by manipulation, from our own ego and that of others'.  I have heard references of a "pain body", but I think I will refer to it as the "fear body".

Once the fear is replaced by love, the dark areas are replaced with light.  There is no need to worry about losing ourselves because the real being inside us is always staying the same.  It is just our awareness of who we truly are that changes. 

Without the perceptions from conditional love laws, we start to see ourselves more clearly bit by bit through new eyes of unconditional love.

Then we can release everyone else from our laws of conditional love and see them through the eyes of unconditional love.

Then we can release things from our laws of conditional love and see them through the eyes of unconditional love.

Then we can release situations from our laws of conditional love and see them through the eyes of unconditional love.

External things are unstable.  Peace cannot be found in instability.  The only eternal thing is the internal unconditional love from the Creator/Goddess.  There peace can be found.

If we keep it simple, love is great than fear, then all the members of our existence will convert to light from darkness, to love from fear.  Our eternal being/soul/piece of the Creator within us, our mind, our heart, and our body will all fill up with love.  Love sparks the Creator within us, brings peace to our mind, joy to our hearts, and health to our bodies.

We are the only ones who limit the flow of love within us by allowing fear to dim our brightness, allowing it to clog our flow.  We are the only ones choosing to limit our abilities by the conditions of love that have been taught to us.  We have formed habits of fear, but we can recondition our thinking to one of unconditional love. 

It takes time to form new habits, but it only takes effort to start.

So I got this place by changing my habits moment by moment from fear to love, and I can return to his moment of love over and over as I make it my habit.  Maybe it is a high expectation to be in that moment 100% of the time, so I will not judge myself when I notice I am not.  That would only be a conditional law of love.  I will instead remember what a wonderful feeling it is to be in the Presence of Love instead of the Pain of Fear and return once again to Love.
 
Selah.   Namaste my Friends!

Right and Wrong Decisions

I am still reading Deepak Chopra's book The Book of Secrets, and there is an awesome section that talks about right and wrong decisions.  It really is the basis of so much of our fear in our lives because it seems like we fear judgment from others on the choices we make, and we think they will reject us because of it.  

I try to remember that those who truly know me will not judge me harshly, and my true friends will never forsake me because of my decisions.  The "Them" that we fear judging us are those that would judge us without knowing us or all the facts.  Do we really care what those people think?  Those who make judgments without knowing all the important facts?  If you wouldn't give them your money to invest for you then don't give them your life to judge either.



From The Book of Secrets:

"Right and wrong decisions:  If you obsess over where you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another.  This isn't a correct assumption because the universe is flexible - it adapts to every decision you make.  Right and wrong are only mental constructs.  Immediately I can hear strong emotional objections to this.  What about Mr Right? What about the perfect job? What about buying the best car?  We are all in the habit of looking like consumers at people, jobs, and cars, wanting best value for the money.  But in reality the decisions we label as right and wrong are arbitrary.  Mister Right is one of a hundred or a thousand people you could spend a satisfying life with.  The best job is impossible to define, given that jobs turn out to be good or bad depending on a dozen of factors that come into play only after you start the job.  (Who knows in advance what your co-workers will be like, what the corporate climate is, whether you will have the right idea at the right moment?)  And the best car may get driven into an accident two days after you buy it.

"The universe has no fixed agenda.  Once you make any decision, it works around that decision.  There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling and action that you experience.  If this sounds too mystical, refer again to your body.  Every significant vital sign - body temperature, heart rate, oxygen consumption, hormone level, brain activity, and so on - alters the moment you decide to do anything.  A runner's metabolism can't afford to be as low as the metabolism of someone reading a book because, without increased air intake and faster heart rate, the runner would suffocate and collapse with muscle spasms.

"Decisions are signals telling your body, mind, and environment to move in a certain direction.  It may turn out afterward that you feel dissatisfied with the direction you've taken, but to obsess over right and wrong decisions is the same as taking no direction at all.  Keep in mind that you are the choice-maker, which means that who you are is far more than any single choice you have ever made or ever will make."



Amazing!  Might I also add that who we are is also more that what any one else decides we are.  We have the power of our BEING.

Love to all!  Brudda Zen