Love is the Key to Consciousness
We experience the feeling of love through the expression of trust, affection and caring. We can love a person, place, pet or thing. We say, “I love vanilla ice cream” because it makes us feel really good.
But human relationships offer the greatest lessons in love through consciousness.
When we fall in love with a person, we experience a strong desire to be with them, and to express ourselves through sexual intimacy. Our feelings are driven by passion, a genuine physical need. We often lose ourselves to the other, seeing only through our euphoria. But love is much more than this.
Fear cannot exist in the presence of love. Where there is authentic love, there is trust.
When there is an absence of trust the relationship eventually crumbles.
The feelings of love become feelings of anger, resentment, disgust and even hatred. The seeds of consciousness here direct our attention to that which was already present within ourselves before we fell in love. The anger and resentment were already there, lying dormant, waiting to be released. The experience of falling in love and out of love, created the ideal fertile grounds for these dormant feelings to become active. Our desires, driven by will and fantasy, create this experience to give rise to conscious love, to heal and release the suffering buried underneath.
Now we must face ourselves in our feelings, and our expression of those feelings. Some of these feelings may be uncomfortable as we strive to shut out difficult or negative feelings. We can shift our experience by realizing we have feelings deeply rooted in our past that have been nurtured by trust and affection, and we understand those same feelings of love will help us through the difficult times.
True love is ever present and unconditional. Love allows us to forgive without forgetting, to understand we are each, in our own way, healing a wounded heart, waiting for it to open with trust and affection.
Love is not interested in money, success or prestige. Love is what we feel in authentic relationships, when we can do our own thing, while giving of ourselves to be available for another, without approval, expectation or demand. Love is not allowing ourselves to be walked over, or intimidated. Love does not always mean turning the other cheek. Love means standing firmly in our truth and trusting our higher self, being able to say no, yes or stop, even when it feels emotionally difficult or uncomfortable.
- Love means setting high standards for oneself with realistic limits as a frame for our choices in life. Love is not closing oneself off, and blaming others for our suffering.
- Love means understanding we are each on a journey of awareness and healing.
- Love is expressed as honesty, openness, trust, and being authentic.
Love supports us in living our life with enthusiasm, self love, and love for others.
by Regina Kaiser – regina@veracis.ca
