Day 16
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Love is the highest power we possess to be in complete harmony with the law of attraction.
The more love we feel, the greater our power.
The more selfless love we feel,
the more unfathomable our power.
The law of attraction has been called the law of love,
because the law itself is a gift of love to humanity.
It is the law by which we can create incredible lives for ourselves.
The more love we feel,
the greater our power to
create a magnificent life of love,
joy, and harmony.
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Love is the highest power we possess to be in complete harmony with the law of attraction.
The more love we feel, the greater our power.
The more selfless love we feel,
the more unfathomable our power.
The law of attraction has been called the law of love,
because the law itself is a gift of love to humanity.
It is the law by which we can create incredible lives for ourselves.
The more love we feel,
the greater our power to
create a magnificent life of love,
joy, and harmony.
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If I asked you to name just one emotion, you’d probably choose Love. However, love is not the simplest of emotions. While loving someone involves emotional states, it also requires time spent with the person, protecting and nurturing the loved one, and often, a desire to be protected and nurtured in return. In some relationships a desire for sexual expression is also an important part of love. But all types of love have excitement and joy in being with and doing for the self and others in common. Love is perhaps the strongest of all emotions, each aspect of which is rooted in our biological as well as social nature. It’s what sets us apart as humans and binds us together as social beings.
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Did you know that love is the best antidepressant available today? The sad thing is that so many ideas we have about love are all wrong. Psychology teaches that the less love you have, the more depressed you are likely to feel. I’d rather look at the positive side of things and say that the more love you have flowing through your life, the happier you are to be with life in general.
Love is as critical for your mind, body and soul as oxygen. The more love you give and receive, the healthier you will be, emotionally, physically and spiritually. The less love you give and receive, the more at risk you are of lack of physical health, of failures in life and of having a deficit in faith, in yourself or anything else.
In the English language there is only one word for this emotion, but in the Greek, there are a number of words for it:
Eros – sexual love.
Philos – brotherly love.
Agape – Unconditional love.
You probably got most of your ideas of love from popular culture. You perhaps believe that love is something that sweeps you off your feet. But this ideal of love consists of unrealistic images created for entertainment, which is one reason so many people are set up to fall. It's part of your vulnerability, like eating junk food, constantly stimulated by images of instant gratification. You think it is love when it's simply distraction and infatuation. One consequence is that when you arrive at real love you’re disappointed because there are many things that do not fit the social ideal. You might become demanding and controlling, wanting someone else to do what you think your model of romance should be, without realizing your belief in this model is misplaced. Love is not just romantic; it’s not the lust and obsession of the soap operas. It’s so much more than just passion and amour.
Love is a learned skill, not just the response of hormones creating desire or infatuation. Love is an act of will, and if the wrong things are learned about love, it almost guaranties failures in so many avenues of life. Love wants the best for someone and the first someone you love should be yourself.
As the song says:
Love is as critical for your mind, body and soul as oxygen. The more love you give and receive, the healthier you will be, emotionally, physically and spiritually. The less love you give and receive, the more at risk you are of lack of physical health, of failures in life and of having a deficit in faith, in yourself or anything else.
In the English language there is only one word for this emotion, but in the Greek, there are a number of words for it:
Eros – sexual love.
Philos – brotherly love.
Agape – Unconditional love.
You probably got most of your ideas of love from popular culture. You perhaps believe that love is something that sweeps you off your feet. But this ideal of love consists of unrealistic images created for entertainment, which is one reason so many people are set up to fall. It's part of your vulnerability, like eating junk food, constantly stimulated by images of instant gratification. You think it is love when it's simply distraction and infatuation. One consequence is that when you arrive at real love you’re disappointed because there are many things that do not fit the social ideal. You might become demanding and controlling, wanting someone else to do what you think your model of romance should be, without realizing your belief in this model is misplaced. Love is not just romantic; it’s not the lust and obsession of the soap operas. It’s so much more than just passion and amour.
Love is a learned skill, not just the response of hormones creating desire or infatuation. Love is an act of will, and if the wrong things are learned about love, it almost guaranties failures in so many avenues of life. Love wants the best for someone and the first someone you love should be yourself.
As the song says:
"Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me;
I found the greatest love of all
Inside of me.
The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve;
Learning to love yourself
It is the greatest love of all."
Most of us are taught that it’s wrong to put ourselves first, and as a consequence we bring feelings of being unworthy and undeserving into our lives. If we consider ourselves first, we feel guilty. This guilt is totally misplaced. If you hang on to the guilt, and lack of worth, the feeling that you don’t deserve to be loved, these beliefs lodged within you will attract circumstances that bring more lack. A change of thinking is required.
“Believing you are worthy of love means that you believe ‘I deserve to be treated well, with respect and dignity. I deserve to be cherished and adored by someone. I am worthy of an intimate and fulfilling relationship. I won’t settle for less than I deserve. I will do whatever it takes to create that for myself.’”
Jack Canfield
You need to recognise yourself for who and what you are, a child of the Universe, worthy of love, fulfilment and praise, even if you are the only person left in the whole world to give that love and praise, or to experience fulfilment. It is possible to overcome any limiting belief and thinking yourself unworthy of love is perhaps the worst limiting belief you can carry.
“To acquire love . . . fill yourself up with it until you become a magnet.”
Charles Haanel
Limiting beliefs are learned as a child. However, recognising they exist and realising they are not true can overcome them. Even if you didn’t get self-love taught to you as a child, it’s never too late to learn to respect yourself enough to love yourself fully. When you feel genuine self-love and self-worth, you will recognise yourself as worthy and competent. A reverence and humility accompanies this deep knowing that you are valuable just for being you. You worth is not dependant on what you do or what you have. When your self-esteem is evident, you will attract love and respect from others.
If you were raised by parents who continually showed you love and gave you support and encouragement, no matter how you behaved, you’d have grown up with a belief that you were a good and valuable person, worthy of love. This belief could be developed even by the age of three and becomes a fundamental value of a person’s life. This value affects how you view yourself in relation to your world. This is your reality, and no matter what happens to you, you will hold to it.
On the other hand, if you were raised with criticism, disapproval, and physical or mental abuse, your deduction at a young age may have been that there was something wrong with you. You may not have understood being punished or controlled in this manner, but the assumption you came to may have led you to believe that your parents had to be right, that you deserved their treatment of you and that you were of no value and unlovable. You were therefore worthless.
This is referred to in psychology as love withheld. Conditional love, when a child receives love only when they perform in a manner required or expected by its parents, can be just as destructive. It can lead to dependence on the opinions of others and always needing somebody to approve of them. They then expect love on approval and carry fears of failure and rejection. They fear trusting others and are often unable to give or receive love unreservedly.
But these scenarios are not based on ultimate truth. Everybody is born with a need to be loved and possesses a beauty inside, even if it is hidden or suppressed. When sought out, it supplies a sense of pride that leads to a greater love of self. You might feel you need another person to look up to, but the greater need should be to look up to yourself first. That is the primary and ultimate lesson in love.
The second thing to bring love into your life is to do what you love. This is tapping into you talents, your genius. If you consider people like Bill Gates, Bette Midler, Oprah; they do what they love. They’re living the life they were born to live, making their own unique contribution to the world, doing what is extremely important to them. No wonder they’re so successful!
You need to know that it is not only celebrities like this who are entitled to have this ‘genius’ quality; every individual has it including you! You have unique talents, abilities, interests and values that only you can bring into greatness. You have a destiny that only you can fulfil. When you are committed to fulfilling that destiny by doing what you love, you will attract an avalanche of love into your life because love will be radiating from you.
“There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than there is for bread.”
Mother Teresa
The third thing about love is that it’s like everything else; to get more you have to give more. The simple act of giving creates a spiritual alliance with the Power of the Universe and fosters the mindset of love for others. If you express love and acceptance to another, they will return that love to you.
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An important aspect of love is what is known as altruistic behaviour, a willingness to make sacrifices, especially for others. It is also offering protection, which in extreme circumstances, may even lead to risking life and limb for a loved one. This type of love is usually directed toward family members, or people to whom a person is related, but may be directed toward a complete stranger if the ability to love is great enough.
Love is such a powerful emotion, it truly rules the earth. It has the power to attract when used in the right way, but it can also repel if used in an incorrect manner. Love can bring a great deal of joy in life, but it may be the source of the deepest disappointments in life and the cause of the most intense emotional pain. The truth is there is never a lack of love; there is more than enough love to go around, more than enough to give, sufficient to share and more than enough to receive.
Love is such a powerful emotion, it truly rules the earth. It has the power to attract when used in the right way, but it can also repel if used in an incorrect manner. Love can bring a great deal of joy in life, but it may be the source of the deepest disappointments in life and the cause of the most intense emotional pain. The truth is there is never a lack of love; there is more than enough love to go around, more than enough to give, sufficient to share and more than enough to receive.
"And if by chance, that special place
That you've been dreaming of
Leads you to a lonely place,
Find your strength in love."
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