The stepping stones to love
The highest or greatest of the expansive emotions is of course love. It is pure unconditional love. It is something that everyone wants to experience but we feel so removed from it in our lives that it seems impossible to bring it back into our experience.
By building the emotions gently upon them selves, we start to experience them in their purity and a natural expansion starts to unfold and become prominent in our experience. Simply by activating it, it will happen.
That is the beauty of praise, or simple appreciation. Simply by apply appreciation into our life, it will naturally activate and unfold into our life. Praise is like the turning point between the emotions that contract, or are negative, and the emotions that expand and are positive. Even if we believe there is absolutely nothing in our life that is worthy of praise, simply by apply it, some greater force is beginning to move in our life. Praise is the natural flow of creation. Everything in creation is singing to the tune of praise, except humans. We have the unique ability to condemn through our own perception. And it is by our perception that we bring misery and pain into our life. By changing our perception, out experience of life will effortlessly change. The first stepping stone to do that is the gentle but powerful emotion of praise. We know the affects that praise has on a young child. They will perform with love and joy for more praise. We know how we feel if we are praised. We acknowledge that appreciation and see life in a better light. Praise has the ability to begin the transformation into a greater experience of life.
By giving and receiving praise then natural flow on this expansion of conscious emotions is gratitude. Praise naturally leads into pure gratitude. However, for most of us gratitude has become an automatic response that we simply say since we have been told to say thanks. In the grocery store we might say thanks as we receive our change from the check out person, but we rarely look them in the eye and fully mean it. It has become a programmed word in society and doesn’t hold any significance. But by being present when we say thanks, and putting a bit more awareness on the interaction when we speak, we very quickly notice a change. Without trying to change anything, naturally we start to notice a genuine gratitude for what is being given to us. We might notice real thanks for receiving. In that moment of pure gratitude there is nothing missing in our life. There is no need and there is no lack. Can you imagine a life with no sense of lack? It is a life which is full and complete. Just by starting to really be present with this emotion we start to allow an experience of contentment to enter and dominate our experience of life. As the emotions expand and build on each other, what is naturally experienced as a result of genuine thanks is the gentle truth of unconditional love. This isn’t the love of lust or of desire. This is the love of life itself, for existence. The natural gratitude flows into a love that is in itself genuine, full and complete. It’s a love that comes from within and needs nothing from anyone. It is the love of giving. It is the joy to give appreciation and gratitude all the time. It’s the real essence of who you are and what you are supposed to express. This is not the love that comes and goes. This is not something that we need to protect for encase we get hurt. This love is like a gentle rain which falls on all beings and all things. It doesn’t choose who to fall or not to fall on. It simply falls and nourishes all with its true purpose. The rain is the same as unconditional love. It’s the love of seeing another fellow human being and just genuinely loving them for being there in that moment. There is no more or less to love about anyone. No one deserves or is worthy of anything more or anything less. It is the love that doesn’t end, stop or turn off. It doesn’t run out. It is an eternal well from which life and love pours from, and that is within you. It also doesn’t overtake you and sweep you off your feet. You don’t loose control of who you are and become unable to function. It is the true connection to your inner being, your inner reality and the expression of who you are. But only by loving yourself, can this love flow from you in its purity out into the world around you.
As unconditional love is experienced and expressed, another emotion is brought forth in all its truth, and that is pure compassion. Pure compassion is different from the compassion that we associate with pity or apathy. Pity is seeing someone as less than or in their drama. We are not being compassionate when we nurse that drama. True compassion is the expression of the unconditional love that is within you. It is total and unrestricted. It is placed with the absolute knowledge that the other person or situation is divine and treating it as such. Instead of lowering your vibration level to join them in their misery, you raise their vibration by showing them their truth, which is that they are perfect beings. They need to see the bigger picture to remove themselves from the misery which is just their perception. However the ultimate of true compassion has nothing to do with the outside, but everything to do with you. We are the most violent to ourselves. The thoughts we think and the things we tell ourselves, we wouldn’t dare to say to another person. We inflict so much violence and negativity towards ourselves through our thinking patterns. The greatest of true compassion is to be compassionate to us. We need to learn to be ok with who we are, where we are at, with what is happening, and to see the greater picture of ourselves. We are divine beings and it’s only by our negative thoughts that we don’t believe that or experience that. If we could become compassionate to ourselves first, then our growth in consciousness, our life and our world become an amazingly easy, fun, loving adventure to play in.
So much of how we see ourselves, others and this world is filtered through our emotions. As our emotions change, so does our perception of everything. The emotions are a vital part of who we are, and we need to introduce ourselves to the experience of appreciation and gratitude to allow the pure love to be expressed.
The more we recognise our emotions, the more we see we have a choice to change our experience of life to one on the stepping stones to love.
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