Often, when we look for resolution, we’re just looking to fix something that’s already happened. We’re responding reactively as opposed to proactively.
I try my best to subscribe to the idea that things don’t happen to us, but rather for us. I try to recognize and support every learning opportunity from each experience that life presents me. But, what if we knew the lesson before it was being taught? What if we were armed with the answer to a question that hasn’t yet been asked? This isn’t to infer that we should be arrogant in our intelligence or require us to be guarded and defensive or be a step ahead of the curve, it just requires one thing.
Love.
This is what Love does; it provides us with the security, confidence and ability to handle any situation we face and celebrate every great success. I know that it’s amazingly difficult to accept that Love can be the answer in every circumstance, but I know it can be your truth as well as mine.
Very honestly, I struggle with this idea each and every day. I ask myself the question, “how is Love going to help me here? It won’t make this work problem go away. It can’t pay my bills. It won’t build me a deck.” But, it’s not about what it can give you; it’s about being able to give yourself to it.
Surrendering to Love is what can provide you that security, confidence and trust in who you are and your place here. In fact, as I write this, there is a great deal weighing on my mind. I wasn’t even certain I would be able to get this post done to meet my self-enforced schedule. However, the more I type the word “Love”, the more I think of the word “Love”, I feel a bit of that weight lift from my mind. Allowing the idea in, right at this moment, is helping me to focus on a grander scale; one that isn’t wrapped up inside my head.
Whenever you feel a wave of negative emotion trying to push you over, think “Love”, repeat “Love” in your head. Just try to let it absorb you. As I’ve said before, Love won’t solve your problems. But, if you live through Love, you won’t have any.
Allow Love to be your answer all the time.
be Love.
Before I read your website, I tend to think love is more emotional. I mean love is driven from our heart, and that is why sometimes we may have done “crazy” things because we have listened to our heart rather than our head (brain). As I have growing up, I always hear people saying “follow your heart”, but I am not so sure. I have been trying to be a logical and rational person and by my “default”, I can’t let any emotion come in in order to be logical and rational. However, I am going to follow my heart, would that definitely mean I am an emotional and sensitive person? I always think about this problem. Sorry I don’t mean being emotional or sensitive are bad. I refer to when we make big decision, should we always be logical, rational and sensiable?
Love is, in fact, an emotion. A very strong emotion that can carry great force with it.
As a function of societal conditioning, we’re led to think and believe that following your Heart is illogically and irrationally based whereas listening to your head is where the logic and rationale is found. But, to that I ask the question; the stories we see on the news of violence, corruption, greed and disregard for our fellow man, what drives these acts? In my opinion, those motivations could not be more illogical or irrational. The manner in which we abandon the Love we should have for each other because we believe we need more of what we don’t have; money, control, fame, could not be driven by the Heart.
When we start to acknowledge and recognize that our Hearts not only feel but think, we can tap into our intuition and let it guide us. There is nothing to say you cannot take pause and ask your Heart a question when you are unsure of what it is trying to tell you. There is nothing to say you cannot allow your Heart to make a big decision for you. There is nothing to say you cannot trust your Heart. Often in life, we have a checklist or certain criteria of how something should be. But, when that something crosses our path and does not meet the rules and regulations we’ve set out, yet it pulls at our Heart, how can we ganore it? It’s our Heart telling us that our head was off point and it’s one of the strongest forces we can feel. For me, that in itself speaks volumes.
Listening to your Heart not only speaks to your ability for emotion and sensitivity, but it speaks to your willingness to let go of traditional thinking and behaviours. The traditional thinking and behaviours that really haven’t gotten us very far through the course of our existence. I encourage you to keep following your Heart and letting it speak. You’ll find that your life will start to become more logical, rational and clear than it’s ever been before.
be Love.