Choosing Love
As
the empowering energies of this month offer us the opportunity to renew
our inner strength, we will find it easier to connect with the core
essence of our Divine nature, which is love.
Love
allows us to see the wholeness and perfection within all of life
itself. It allows us to see beyond the veils of illusion that convince
the mind that separation and fear are needed.
Choosing to be and express love on our daily path is a powerful practice.
Some
days it can be a challenge to choose love, yet know that you are not
alone in that. The important thing to remember, is to be gentle and easy
with yourself as you experience what happens when love is not chosen by
you or another.
Collectively, we all grew up in a world that valued intellect over intuitive feeling and inner realization.
Yet
some of the most visionary figures in history, who have helped to
progress the evolution of humanity throughout time, knew that the
greatest advancements in society occur when we personally and
collectively choose to embrace feeling as equally if not more important
than the intellect.
To
feel is to expand, and to expand is to love. These visionaries knew
that love is what’s helping every living being to progress and evolve.
It’s
important to understand that emotions are not the same as feelings.
Emotions are responses the mind makes from a space of defining something
as being either Good or Bad.
Of
course, it’s important to honor, love, and be grateful for our
emotions, because they are an important part of the feedback needed to
help us recognize how we are showing up for and loving ourselves.
Intuitive
feelings differ from emotions, because they do not operate in the
duality of labeling ideas or experiences as either Good or Bad.
Feelings
operate in the realm of discernment. They help us intuitively recognize
what is expanding us and what is contracting us inwardly.
Those
inner realizations also teach us that just because something is
expansive for us doesn’t mean it will be expansive for someone else.
This helps us release the idea that something has to be labeled as
either Good or Bad, and moves us into a much more neutral way of being.
Love itself is neutrality. Love does not operate in duality.
As
we choose to be and express love—living from the heart and discerning
inwardly what is right for us—life rises up to meet us in love,
nurturing us every step of the way.
When we choose love, life rearranges everything in our outer world so that we can experience more love.
The
more we become aware of these opportunities and move into them, the
easier it becomes to anchor love into our reality as a way of life.
It
is important to realize that though we were taught otherwise, real love
does not have any conditions placed around it. And its neutral stance
does not indicate weakness.
Love
does not judge, and does not cause us or another pain or hardship. Love
does not require us to give up or hide any part of ourselves.
When we choose love, we choose to be in the natural rhythm and flow of life.
Creative Flow
March is an excellent time to allow our creativity to flow in a direction that feels expansive and productive to us.
This will be a great time to change up our routine—to try something new that inspires us creatively.
In
order to channel our creative energy into productive action, we must
make self-love and compassion a top priority in our lives.
As
a society, we have been conditioned to believe that self-love is egoic
and wrong. This was all part of us forgetting that we come from and are
an extension of Spirit.
When the mind forgets that we are Spirit first, it tends to give its power away.
This
usually leaves us feeling insecure and stuck, living in fear and lack.
These are survival-based energies that cause the eventual breakdown of
physical, emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
For
a long time now, we have been releasing the layers of this archaic
conditioning, which has held us back from making self-love a top
priority in our lives.
However, many people still don’t know how to make self-love a priority.
Self-love is just another way of saying we are honoring and acknowledging all aspects of ourselves.
When
we love ourselves exactly as we are, without trying to fix or get rid
of any part of ourselves, we are acknowledging the Spirit/Source within
us.
By loving ourselves fully, we reflect to Spirit, “You are perfect, whole, and know exactly what you are doing!”
Loving ourselves is the greatest form of honor and respect we can show to Spirit/Source.
And what is happening right now, is our opportunity to move even more in this direction.
/ heatherensworth
“Call of the Nightingale” © Jo Jayson
