Love is a Creative Life-Force Energy
Dear Ones,
Here it is February already! The month in which we celebrate love, particularly our love for others and their love for us. It is a month when we express our love to another through the giving of red (heart color) things as well as chocolate! We, from a young age, send valentines to classmates and then later to our loved ones to show affection.
Valentine’s Day sometimes is triggering, and a host of feelings can be unleashed such as sadness, rejection, resentment, jealousy, anger, shame, and fear. These can result in victim and tyrant behaviors, withdrawal, detachment, or lashing out in passive-aggressive or aggressive behaviors.
Love can be difficult whether it is our love for another or ourselves. We are sometimes disappointed as our expectations are not met. When this happens, we defend ourselves in some way to feel better and may create an elaborate story of how we are unlovable, or they are mean, bad people. This story is often reinforced through repeated thinking of the event, giving it a lot of energy, which keeps us off-center and in imbalance.
An aspect of love is forgiveness, not often talked about on Valentine’s Day. To truly feel love for another, we need to first feel our feelings, digest them, and find a higher perspective. We then can begin to let go of the meaning we attached to a perceived hurtful event.
It is not an easy thing to do, for sure, but in time we can find love in both the dark and light. Love is a creative life force energy that contracts through the pain, when we sit in the pain, feel it, and open our hearts to compassion for ourselves and others, there is a shift. We expand a bit more to life and all its juiciness.
In finding forgiveness for each other and ourselves, we can expand, and this helps us shift to feeling more love.
Join us for a half-day in person Shamanic Breathwork tomorrow, Sunday, February 4th from 1-5 p.m. on "Living in Loves Embrace". See information below.
Hope to see you soon!
Sending You all much Love and Gratitude,
Carley and John