Choosing Love (AB)

By choosing love I don't mean pretending to feel loving when you don’t, or doing ‘loving things’ from an inauthentic or sacrificial place.

The times you feel most separate from love, most fearful/wounded/stressed/angry, etc. are the times you may feel least able to feel loving, or simply 'flip a switch' and to be in a loving space, and less inclined choose love.

There can be stages of opening to love, and tiers of emotion involved. Those stages may include accepting yourself just as you are, getting stuff off your chest, releasing emotions, healing, giving yourself permission (to love and be loved) being willing to choose love, forgiving yourself/others, etc.

Each of the above can begin with a choice which can be part of choosing love.

(To help with opening to love, a free Love Immersion meditation MP3 is available at the Global Love Meditation website, more details below also).

Love is ever present.

That love may be eclipsed, but it can never be extinguished. On a journey of choosing love it can also be a question of what’s in the way of love, and choosing to let go of more of that ‘stuff’.

What else helps with opening to and choosing love? What of allies of acceptance, compassion, forgiveness, understanding, joy...?

Choosing love may not be about instantly feeling loving, but it can be about making an over-riding intention for love, which can help you move you towards the greater opening to, receiving, and giving of love.

Amid any choices you are making, you can also ask yourself "Is this a loving choice?" (one of the many questions shared previously in the Choice-Making Process).

Choice Sourced In Love

Love will always enhance the quality of any choice. It's the most optimum state in which to choose anything.

The intention behind a choice matters as much as the choice itself, and will obviously direct the nature of your choices.

In that sense, I believe choice sourced in love can only ever win.

I’m not talking rose-coloured glasses love, or blind love, or sacrificial love (that isnt' actually love), or idealized romantic love.

I am referring to the heart-centred love that exists within you for yourself, others and the world. That innate divine love that is ever available to you.

Clearly, your emotional and mental state have a great impact on the types of choices you make, for better or worse, as well as the range of choices you perceive as even available to you at a given time.

Love invokes with it many other positive states - joy, clarity, truth, higher perspectives, balanced priorities, and a focus on what is most serving and beneficial to yourself and all.

Negative states will impact both your vision and choices. Even at times if you think you are making a positive choice, it can be valuable to consciously enter a loving state and to see if anything changes or if you become aware of even brighter choices.

The ego has its own plans and agendas that don't serve your highest good and can pollute and dilute the choices you make.

Love dissolves ego and connects you to truer self. It is a gateway to the divine, truth, beautiful states and positive realities.

Self-love and the recognition of your inherent worth inspires more loving choices for yourself, as well as others, for the more you love yourself, the more loving and compassionate you will be to others too, and the brighter choices you will make for yourself.

Self-love also fosters a sense of deserving which is so integral to receiving love from your reality in whatever way that may be reflected back to you.

Love will also help to illuminate underlying intentions behind choices, since in a state of love you are more open, aware, and aligned to truth. In this sense you can witness, acknowledge, and disarm (without judgment) negative agendas that may otherwise trigger less serving choices.

Another way to help choices be sourced in love is to ask yourself:

“What would love have me think/feel/say/do... for myself/another/the world?”

Then open to inspiration, guidance, thoughts, feelings, etc.  

Opening to Love - A Meditation 

What helps you enter a loving state? Something for you to reflect on personally.

The Global Love Meditation is shared as a free gift to help with opening to love, accessing, experiencing, giving and receiving love for and from yourself, others and the world.

You can receive a free copy of that via the Global Love Meditation website:

www.GLobalLoveMeditation.com

Much love,

Aine Belton