Opening to Love  
by Janet

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Get comfortable in your chair, relax your body and let your shoulders drop, feel your tightness leave and each breath of air as it fills your being with fresh life.

You are walking through a store when a beautiful item catches your eye. It was only a few hours prior, you had thought that you would like to give yourself a gift, something small but special. And here it is, sitting all by itself, many isles away from where it belonged.

A silver stand, simple yet elegant with a panel suspended by 2 rings from the top. This glass panel has a pressed pink daisy within it and the word �friends� written in silver underneath. Behind are photograph pockets.

Feel the meaning of the word friends, and what it represents to you.

You begin to feel all the people who have touched your heart this lifetime. We meet many people along our journey, but so very few touch us, or we allow them to.

I want you to think of one particular person who has touched your heart. Think about your relationship with this person, what they mean to you, let yourself hear the story of this special connection.

Now, spend 10 minutes thinking and feeling while you write of what this person means to you.

Kyle is a special soul to me. To feel this one, the free love, the energy, the bursting into new life difficult to convey in words. He touches me very deeply and has from the moment of his birth, when shortly afterwards he opened his eyes and smiled at me.

He is the one who, at less than 3 years of age facilitated his own communication with me. Self teaching the computer and all its programs, then coming online and playing message games on icq. All the while chattering away to his computer as if talking to me face to face. He is the one who telephones at 6.30 am to tell his �my nan� that it is Christmas eve, and that he loves me.

Who is the next person coming to mind? Feel their story, the love and specialness of connection.

Bernie, or Bernadette is another dear sweet soul. Unimaginable to feel such a connection with a woman, such strong love we both feel. She is the one, who when hearing a lady from overseas had nowhere to stay while researching resources for her son, opened her home and heart to me. We had not even spoken when she walked up to me and said, �so your coming to stay a while with us? Welcome.�

She and her daughter welcomed me, then later my son into their lives and family. They are our family, and she my sister. Each time we connect in person or thought, the strength of this connection overwhelms me.

We could keep going, but for now 2 will suffice. Imagine doing this with all who have touched your heart, then with all you have ever known. The experience would change you as a person.

Can you feel it? As you take each deep breath notice what you feel. How it engulfs and flows throughout your body. Close your eyes and enjoy!

What do you think it is that you feel?

Human beings have one very big misconception regarding love. We think love is something we give or receive. We think this energy is dependant on another person being involved and caring for us. We think it is not something we as beings can independently create and experience. Well it is time to think again!

Love is an incredibly special and beautiful energy, a life force energy, which when felt ignites a spark within us. The spark of life. To stop and feel as each breath fills our being with pure energy is to feel our life force itself.

All that we feel has no relevance on anything outside ourselves. Sure we may feel something, which triggers our own reactions, but that is all it is. Our reactions to outside stimuli, not the stimuli causing the reactions.

Let me clarify. A person may be sensitive to criticism, they notice it wherever they go, and in all actions from others. This person then looks into why they have this hypersensitivity and resolve the issue responsible. Now they are no longer sensitive or even notice criticism from anyone.

Bringing that back to outside stimuli. The outside stimuli both prior and after looking into the issue has not changed, only the reaction created by the issue's belief. Therefore the outside stimuli is just that, stimulation for us to react according to our own beliefs and perceptions. Dependant on a persons beliefs, they may react strongly, or not even notice the stimuli. Each person's reaction will be different.

Relating that to love, I may be showered with love, or receive none, yet it is my own specific perception and belief that dictates what I see myself receiving. If I feel loved then that will be my perception of all peoples actions towards me, if I feel unloved I will be unaware of all love being directed at me. What I feel is directly related to what I perceive.

So you can see, the love coming from outside is irrelevant in regard to the love we feel in receipt of. It is all about our own beliefs and perceptions.

Now that we realize this, we can then go onto seeing how feeling love energy is not dependant on anyone other than ourselves. It is all up to us!

Was anyone other than yourself involved in what you felt during the exercise at the beginning of this workshop? Did you enjoy it? Did it feel good?

Were you focussing on sending to that person, or merely enjoying feeling what that person means to you? Can you see the difference?

We do not need other people to feel love! We can be anywhere doing anything, filled with love energy. At all times, merely by feeling our own love for others, life, living.

What do you think happens to that love as we feel it? Did you notice it grow in intensity at some point? Of course their spirit opens to our love for them, and we connect. Of course that person is effected, whether they feel it consciously or not.

Love is LIFE FORCE energy! But only becomes so when we remove this need to involve other people for it to exist.

I can sit here and feel think of you, and feel great love and connection. Do I need to tell you this for it to be possible? What is the purpose of telling? Validation, recognition, response?

This experience today, is about opening to allow ourselves to feel our own love for others, independently. Something until now we mostly block.

Imagine going through your days being allowed to feel for everyone you desire to. Feel and let your own love energy grow and flow throughout your being. Imagine the physical ramifications of life force flooding your body. Knowing it is okay TO love. It is ok TO feel, ok TO express. Because it is only about YOU.

So let the fun begin!





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