Love is a very powerful medicine, it can heal. Medical research has in fact shown that when people are in a loving environment they need less medication compared to those in a less loving one. However, love is a word that that has become ‘loaded.’ Often this word is wrongly used. An indication of real love is that there is never sorrow, false love leads to sorrow.
Love is experienced in our minds. I can only ever experience what is going on in my own mind, never what is going on in the minds of others. We thus can only experience our own love, my feelings of love for myself and others.
‘It is actually my interest to love my enemy.’ If I love ten people I experience that love in my mind, if ten people are loving me I don’t necessarily experience this at all – rather I may be experiencing an emptiness in my mind. We experience what is going on in our own minds. If I am experiencing judgement for example it means that I am ‘judging’. So, what I am experiencing is a good indication of what is going on in my mind,
Love is connected with security, the more secure we feel the more we experience love. When we are with a baby or young children we tend to experience love more readily than with adults for example. This is because our ‘ego’ is safe with a baby or young child, they don’t see our weaknesses. Consider though: we are all one human family and each of us is inherently good.
Becoming more loving
Do you ever find yourself in a battle with yourself? The classic Dr Jekyll or Mr Hyde scenario. To different extents we all have some Jekyll and some Hyde in us. We have the choice though as to whether to ‘feed’ Mr Hyde (our addictions, needs, wants, desires etc. Those things that lead us to behave ‘out of character,’ angrily, greedily, arrogantly etc.) If we ‘feed’ these them they grow stronger and stronger. We ‘feed’ them with our thoughts.
To become more and more life Jekyll
a) we need to go beyond the ‘body’ and understand that we are all eternal souls, this brings us a sense of security.
b) practice becoming a detached observeras this brings us the experience of being free of our addictions and needs etc. This promotes love, respect and nobility in the soul.
c) stop ‘feeding’ Mr Hyde the thoughts that make him grow.
d) Mr Hyde sees other defects whereas Dr Jekyll sees the good things about you and knows that however someone may be behaving that their true nature is of goodness.
Original and spiritual love is unconditional love.It is like magic. It needs nothing. It is content and silent.
