Do You Feel Loved? The Treasure Lies Within
Hello Everyone:
I was taking a walk the other day and got lost within my own thoughts. I started thinking about love. All of us want to be loved. Feeling loved is great. But as I contemplated my own experiences of feeling love, several things became clear. Most of us believe that in order to feel loved, someone must love us. We believe that the source of feeling loved is dependent upon another. Therefore, if our “other” is not present, not loving, or not available, we react as if our source for love has been lost. I began to realize that as much as we would like to think that our experience of being loved is when we receive love from another, this may simply be untrue. Think about it. Do you experience feeling loved when someone loves you who you do not love in return? Where does this feeling of love come from – another or yourself? I reflected on moments when I have felt completely filled with love. Here is what I discovered.
My greatest moments of feeling loved have occurred when I felt love towards another, not the other way around. When I am present to the love I feel for my children, my friends, my romantic partner, my family, our humanity, my self, or life itself, is when I am replenished and full. It is through the expression of the love which already and always exists within us that feeling loved is found. This is not only available to us 24/7, it is fairly easy to access. Open up your heart completely, be fully present to what is, be compassion, kindness, and love. By doing so, the treasure is yours. You hold the universe in your hand and heart.
Now I know that this may sound too touchy feeling for some of you. For others, it’s not as simple as opening up your heart completely; all of us have built up some kind of internal security system in order to defend against injury or harm. It takes courage to let our defenses down long enough to be open and vulnerable. It takes practice to stop the “chatter” in our minds so that we can see the treasures that are ours for the taking. I believe the challenge is worth it. Once we understand that feeling loved has been available to us all along, we can click our heels and return home.
So next time you feel unloved, feel love for another. Be compassion, kindness and love for yourself. Connect to the humanity that binds us all. Discover the treasures that exist within us, not without.
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Take care and till next time,
Julie
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Do You Feel Loved? The Treasure Lies Within
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This is so true. The gift of love is not to the other, but to ourselves. It reminds me of a story about my daughter, a wonderful gift of love. One morning I went to wake her for school, I tickled her and played with her hair and told her it was time to get up. When she opened her eyes, she smiled and I asked her, “How did you get to be so beautiful? You are the most beautiful creature I’ve ever seen!” and she responded: “Mommy, don’t you know, the more you love me the more beautiful I become!” If we could extend that love to our neighbors, co-workers, friends etc. . . just imagine how beautiful they could all become!
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