Love is a Life Long Practice

For some people, LOVE just comes easily and they are in that constant state of bliss. For others, it doesn't come so naturally.

There are many dynamics within the daily practice of love. Relationships generate different types of love and varied feelings within that love. Although love is the ultimate emotion, the feelings associated with different types of relationships don't always create the same love within that dynamic.

The hardest relationship to foster and nurture is a gentle loving kindness for ourselves. We are conditioned from childhood to disconnect from our heart center and the journey back to our selves can sometimes be a difficult. For many it does not happen over night, while for others, you can have the good fortune of waking up one day and discover your soul has opened up.

Even when one gets reconnected to their authentic self, doesn't mean they will just stay in the natural state of joy. We all have an ego and it can pull one down many dark paths taking you on a prolong and arduous journey.

Self love and love for others is life long practice. We are not meant to live like hermetic monks in isolation on a top of a hill. Once you have awoken to self, there will be many different types of transitions and periods that may cause you to sleep walk through life. Be kind when you fall back asleep, the lessons of love are usually found in darkest corners of dreams. Our nightmares create the awareness that self love is needed to awaken us again.

Each day presents different situation and opportunity for us to engage in the daily practice of self love.

Within The Intangible

Within the unseen, lies ones greatest joy.

Within the untouchable, lies ones greatest gifts.

Within the invisible, is where your truth is found.

Within the mundane, is where the excitement grows.

Within the darkest cavity, is where we will seek light.

Within the intangible, is where the tangible can be truly felt.

Expansion

In life there is expansion. It comes in many forms.

But it's within our breath, where the inhale creates our broadening.

We become wide when we inhale but not just physically, when we breath, in we are actually inspiring. To breath is to Inspire, in every sense of the word,with the pun intended.

Through mindful breath, we inspire our minds to expand with our lungs. In this moment of each breath, we are aligning our head and heart physically, but we are broadening them emotionally as we breathe.

If we take the moment to be mindful as we inhale, we can actually feel our expansion emotionally and physically. In this mindfulness of observing our breath, we are becoming enlarged in every capacity. We are generating growth of self in the moment of inspire, which is inspiring to the self.

To Breathe out, is also expansion but as paradox. During exhale, we are physically releasing our breath, which leads to depletion. Without the release and depletion, we cannot make space for another inspiring moment.

Inhaling and exhaling are opposite for reason, they are yin and yang of each other. The paradox is that they must co-exist with each other in parallel. Both are needed, one cannot exist without the other and they are in fact co-dependent of each other.

Expansion has many facets and all aspects can create growth on any horizon for each of us. Be aware of the gift of expansion and learn to be mindful with this gift to find the true blessing in it.