What does it feel like to love everything like the most loving you ever felt?

[ThresholdRising]

What does it feel like to love everything like the most loving you ever felt?

Powerful meditation there today where I just kept continously spreading my love, first from person to person, then towns, counties, countries, earth, sun, galaxy center, universe. My image wasn't clearest for doing this but I did saying something like " I give my love to person, I give my love to person, etc" and then the towns around me. The image gets murky after a bit but the feeling of love from giving grows still.

I believe the skill has to be developed further but definitely beneficial to the people and world around me(or in me) and a leap forward for me in terms of spiritual growth.

Enjoy 5th and 6th,

Love and light.;)

[genevieve]

Abraham/Esther Hicks promotes "Rampage of Appreciation," wherein you look around you and focus on something--anything--and appreciate it, then move on to the next thing and focus on it, etc.

Sometimes I can't stop.

Ecstasy!


Peace Love Joy & Harmony,
Genevieve

[Journeyon]

Dear ThresholdRising, I believe I know what you are talking about. I also had a beautiful experience loving everything similar to yours.

My best experience was where I was sitting in a beautiful quiet park with my back against a large tree. I just closed my eyes and breathed deeply. As I slowed my breath I started feeling grateful for all the blessings of this life. I kept breathing in grateful loving thoughts then I started feeling love and peace for the whole world. This feeling expanded in my heart until it felt full.

I imagined that I was a vessel of love and great creator was pouring though me. I felt as if this love was flowing through all my body then as I breathed I imagined it billowing out of my heart center like billowy clouds. With each breath like waves this love wash continued on... I sent it across the world. In my minds eye I pictured the cloud full of healing, peace, LOVE rippling through the town, City, Country, across oceans, all countries. This love wave, touched all in its way. Like a thick, billowing fog laying low to the ground I pictured it touching all people with a gentle love touch. Settling upon and seeping into the earth, the plants, animals.

In my mind I imagined all were blessed in the love wave and those who were of like mind could feel the love as it touched them and would pause and add their love to this wave. As the wave continued on across the world it grew larger and stronger and more beautiful.

As I finished my visualization/meditation I felt as if it was created! as if my will be done. Like the world really was wrapped in love. It was the most profound spiritual expression of my life.

Thank you for this topic where we can share our experience and learn from each other. Just taking the time to type these words and put my experience down has reminded me of the importance of daily focused intention. I will be joining you on the 5th and 6th for sure!

Blessings and love,
Journeyon

[ghostrider]

It feels like being a newborn baby wrapped in mother's arms in a warm blanket and every tree, rock , person, the very air has the same feeling that mother has when she looks at her newborn - my love for my baby is sooo strong it's painful yet I'm so happy all I can do is cry . Happy tears heal the soul . that's what it feels like to me from my perspective .

[CdnSirian]

Thanks all above for each post, bringing back to me the moments when I've been immersed in that depth of love.

[conk]

I feel the most love when I hear female sopranos sing. Certain notes and strings of notes carry me to the most wonderful place. A rush of emotion that is uncontrollable rises up in me and bursts out through my tear ducts. I feel it in my heart so strongly that it takes over for a few minutes. I can do nothing else but wallow in bliss. It lasts for a long time afterward too! This is what unconditional love feels and sounds like. To me anyway.

[leavesoftrees]

The more you give out love, the more you can receive. ...

And then you have more to give out.

[another bob]

What does it feel like to love everything like the most loving you ever felt?

Powerful meditation there today I believe the skill has to be developed further but definitely beneficial to the people and world around me(or in me) and a leap forward for me in terms of spiritual growth.

An excercise to help:

Imagine the one you love the most. Feel that energy of love in your heart, hold it for a moment, and then bring up the image of one you dislike, and apply that same stored energy of love to that one. When you can apply that same love you have for the one most dear to the one you find most offensive, without having to strain and huff and puff, you are ready to graduate.

:yo:

[bodhii71]

I don't know if this has ever been posted here before, but it seemed appropriate, and I enjoy it none the less. Great post.
U4cbzUG2V-I

[another bob]

I don't know if this has ever been posted here before, but it seemed appropriate, and I enjoy it none the less. Great post.
U4cbzUG2V-I

Ramana Maharshi, moments before he passed:


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[SKAWF]

i believe the word is 'bliss'

[another bob]

i believe the word is 'bliss'



Love itself is the actual
form of God.

That
is pure bliss.

Call it pure bliss,
God,
Self,
or
what you will.

That is devotion,
that is realization and

that is everything.

Remembering
consciousness alone
is the state of devotion,
the relationship of unfading real Love –

the real knowledge of Self,
shining as the undivided supreme bliss itself,
surges up as the nature of Love.

Only if one knows the truth of Love,
the nature of the Self,
will the strong entangled knot of life
be untied.

Only if one attains the height of Love
will liberation be attained.

The experience of Self is only Love,
which is seeing only Love,
hearing only Love,
feeling only Love,
tasting only Love and
smelling only Love --

This Is Bliss.


~Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi

[WhiteFeather]

Great Post OP. Wanishi

B L I S S. Your on your way. Feeling unconditional love is a natural state of mind.

Fear seperates us and Love makes us whole.

L iving
O ne
V ibrational
E nergy

A Key to The Merkabah Vehicle and Full Consciousness.

Be Love and One With The Universe! W.f. : )

PS: I Love You ;)

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?43346-I-Love-You

This Video does it for me. Sends me to another place not of this Earth. And she 's only 11 years old. Dedicated to My Lightworker Friends. Enjoy!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PdiRVERxLI

[the_vast_mystery]

You know I really wonder about love. Every time I thought I was in love people told me I wasn't, every time people told me I was in love I thought I wasn't. Every time I tried to look into spiritual descriptions of love it seemed entirely foreign to me, with things like celibacy and other weird prohibitions thrown in as if to dilute it into a lesser form of love. I've come to think I must never have consciously experienced it for such a situation to be. It makes me wonder, how does one express love if they have never recognized receiving it? I mean, tell me my parents loved me and intellectually I'll agree, but emotionally I find the way they "practiced" their love translated into a painful and trying experience that just made me want to get as far away from them as I could. It creates a disconnect if one really cannot harken back to any moment or people and really say "I'm sure this was love, they loved me."

It's always been: "Well, I can recognize based on what everyone else said they most likely did love me. But I can't say I personally agree with that. I can't fathom something so constantly uncomfortable, painful and hard to see as love. I can't recognize a love that only results in me hurting more. I'll acknowledge my limitations and concede I'm probably wrong, but if I couldn't feel it with my heart at the time then I won't lie and say I was definitively loved when I obviously didn't feel it even slightly." It's funny because there's this disconnect between heart and mind, mind defining love in terms of dedication and my emotions in the language of passion and sensuality. I can't say I've ever been there though, not with anyone who showed it back really. (Part of that though is also that I can't recognize platonic love as valid; I can't help but find it "lesser" no matter how I look at it.)

[The Arthen]

When you love anything with everything you've got - you'll see all its flaws tenfold.

Then it becomes a mixture of acceptance, tolerance, and anti-acceptance and anti-tolerance all at the same time. Then you try to transcend it. Then you sink back. Then you try again, then you sink back.

Then it all becomes a game of endurance.

You throw your arms in the air in despair and just want to anesthetize yourself with flowery notions.

It helps. For awhile.

Then something else hits me, and then I go, "Wait a minute. That was just an anesthetic. It didn't REALLY work. I was just convincing myself that the least amount of surmountable effort was "The Way To Go". Bull****."

Then back to the game of endurance again....

[ThresholdRising]

You know I really wonder about love. Every time I thought I was in love people told me I wasn't, every time people told me I was in love I thought I wasn't. Every time I tried to look into spiritual descriptions of love it seemed entirely foreign to me, with things like celibacy and other weird prohibitions thrown in as if to dilute it into a lesser form of love. I've come to think I must never have consciously experienced it for such a situation to be. It makes me wonder, how does one express love if they have never recognized receiving it? I mean, tell me my parents loved me and intellectually I'll agree, but emotionally I find the way they "practiced" their love translated into a painful and trying experience that just made me want to get as far away from them as I could. It creates a disconnect if one really cannot harken back to any moment or people and really say "I'm sure this was love, they loved me."

It's always been: "Well, I can recognize based on what everyone else said they most likely did love me. But I can't say I personally agree with that. I can't fathom something so constantly uncomfortable, painful and hard to see as love. I can't recognize a love that only results in me hurting more. I'll acknowledge my limitations and concede I'm probably wrong, but if I couldn't feel it with my heart at the time then I won't lie and say I was definitively loved when I obviously didn't feel it even slightly." It's funny because there's this disconnect between heart and mind, mind defining love in terms of dedication and my emotions in the language of passion and sensuality. I can't say I've ever been there though, not with anyone who showed it back really. (Part of that though is also that I can't recognize platonic love as valid; I can't help but find it "lesser" no matter how I look at it.)

I don't know if what I'm experiencing is love either but it is a strong emotion that I feel strongly that is definitely more a plus than a minus. Its definitely not the thoughts in my head even though they do kinda co relate with each other. Maybe you didn't feel it it but if you didn't you should just take the strongest positive emotion you have or remember ever having and try from there. but do give more from your heart than your mind in a sense because I think this may have what made more than what it was before for me and maybe others judging by some of the material I was reading and learning from.

But hope you get some great experiences like that at least at some stage.

Wish ya the best.

[the_vast_mystery]

I don't know if what I'm experiencing is love either but it is a strong emotion that I feel strongly that is definitely more a plus than a minus. Its definitely not the thoughts in my head even though they do kinda co relate with each other. Maybe you didn't feel it it but if you didn't you should just take the strongest positive emotion you have or remember ever having and try from there. but do give more from your heart than your mind in a sense because I think this may have what made more than what it was before for me and maybe others judging by some of the material I was reading and learning from.

But hope you get some great experiences like that at least at some stage.

Wish ya the best.

I don't really feel strong positive emotions that often and when I do they usually are accompanied by a "Down" period where they're all written off as delusion. And in fact most of them are, I don't tend to feel "good" about anything real so I tend to draw most any happiness in my life from fantacization and gratification of said fantacization in whatever form I can manage. (typically by feeding my confirmation bias and interpreting events as supporting of a pre-drawn conclusion.) I have these grand ideas about things I wish could happen or wish were true and those are the only thing I get happy about. I focus on those visions of a "better" existence as my only real source of contentment in the present, then get disappointed when I come to the realization it won't ever happen and this in turn feeds a deeper sense of cynicism in everything. The world as I see it looks too negative to me, and that's not to say there haven't been exceptions but I can count on one hand the number of times I've been seriously happy for something that actually happened rather than thinking that something happening will eventually lead to something I ACTUALLY wanted to happen. In fact the majority of times it's me just trying to find some minor solace in the idea of "Well, at least it isn't worse" which is still a half-bitter pill to swallow.

That's not to say I don't have momentary moments of happiness, but they're certainly not healthy ones. I began to realize that I tend to eat horrible foods and make small impulse purchases as those are often my only way I've found to feel like I'm ever "treating myself" to anything, and that's just rewarding myself for pursuing stupid behavior, which is bad. But when I take away those things I remove any real source of happiness and I just become even more neurotic and self-destructive until I go back to doing what I was before. Video games, unhealthy food, etc. I can't find an alternative that's actually satisfying to me. This is why I wonder if I'm truly capable of expressing any of this "love" stuff that gets bandied about around regarding higher virtues and "unconditional love." I'm starting to believe that as with many other areas of life, I just completely lack the developmental frame of reference necessary for it.

I'm starting to think that it all comes down to early childhood. People who are able to find that form of love, security, and goodness in their world when they're young quickly grow up to be self-assured and confident and those who don't receive it end up spending the rest of their lives trying to fill a hole that really can't be filled, because you can't change the past.

[Carmody]

The more you give out love, the more you can receive. ...

And then you have more to give out.

Yes, to reinforce the channels in the mind and body, in the connection to spirit.

exercise, more, bigger... exercise, more, bigger. And on and on.

Lots of fun!

[ThresholdRising]

I don't know if what I'm experiencing is love either but it is a strong emotion that I feel strongly that is definitely more a plus than a minus. Its definitely not the thoughts in my head even though they do kinda co relate with each other. Maybe you didn't feel it it but if you didn't you should just take the strongest positive emotion you have or remember ever having and try from there. but do give more from your heart than your mind in a sense because I think this may have what made more than what it was before for me and maybe others judging by some of the material I was reading and learning from.

But hope you get some great experiences like that at least at some stage.

Wish ya the best.

I don't really feel strong positive emotions that often and when I do they usually are accompanied by a "Down" period where they're all written off as delusion. And in fact most of them are, I don't tend to feel "good" about anything real so I tend to draw most any happiness in my life from fantacization and gratification of said fantacization in whatever form I can manage. (typically by feeding my confirmation bias and interpreting events as supporting of a pre-drawn conclusion.) I have these grand ideas about things I wish could happen or wish were true and those are the only thing I get happy about. I focus on those visions of a "better" existence as my only real source of contentment in the present, then get disappointed when I come to the realization it won't ever happen and this in turn feeds a deeper sense of cynicism in everything. The world as I see it looks too negative to me, and that's not to say there haven't been exceptions but I can count on one hand the number of times I've been seriously happy for something that actually happened rather than thinking that something happening will eventually lead to something I ACTUALLY wanted to happen. In fact the majority of times it's me just trying to find some minor solace in the idea of "Well, at least it isn't worse" which is still a half-bitter pill to swallow.

That's not to say I don't have momentary moments of happiness, but they're certainly not healthy ones. I began to realize that I tend to eat horrible foods and make small impulse purchases as those are often my only way I've found to feel like I'm ever "treating myself" to anything, and that's just rewarding myself for pursuing stupid behavior, which is bad. But when I take away those things I remove any real source of happiness and I just become even more neurotic and self-destructive until I go back to doing what I was before. Video games, unhealthy food, etc. I can't find an alternative that's actually satisfying to me. This is why I wonder if I'm truly capable of expressing any of this "love" stuff that gets bandied about around regarding higher virtues and "unconditional love." I'm starting to believe that as with many other areas of life, I just completely lack the developmental frame of reference necessary for it.

I'm starting to think that it all comes down to early childhood. People who are able to find that form of love, security, and goodness in their world when they're young quickly grow up to be self-assured and confident and those who don't receive it end up spending the rest of their lives trying to fill a hole that really can't be filled, because you can't change the past.

Seeing that this is only synaptic reality in which you have reality where you grew up to be the person you are today which is not giving you the happiness you want, why not mentally be born again, growing with the people in your lives giving you this form of love, security and goodness all the ways that you believe that the best of us deserve until you reach the present being the self-assured and confident person that you are now so that you are capable of giving others the form of love, security and goodness that you believe they deserve because of the way you were raised. Maybe then you can be happy to have the experiences and happiness that everybody deserves.

If you are to try this you should look up self hypnosis and try to tailor your own past for a more deserving present.

[the_vast_mystery]

Seeing that this is only synaptic reality in which you have reality where you grew up to be the person you are today which is not giving you the happiness you want, why not mentally be born again, growing with the people in your lives giving you this form of love, security and goodness all the ways that you believe that the best of us deserve until you reach the present being the self-assured and confident person that you are now so that you are capable of giving others the form of love, security and goodness that you believe they deserve because of the way you were raised. Maybe then you can be happy to have the experiences and happiness that everybody deserves.

If you are to try this you should look up self hypnosis and try to tailor your own past for a more deserving present.

While that's kind of what I'm trying to do I don't believe it'll work. I don't think it's possible for me mentally to be "born again" without physically being "Born again." I mean, unless you can erase all of my memories with some high-tech device of yours. I have a huge number of behavioral issues that stem from never originally having a proper positive environment to feel loved/accepted, learn, and grow into a mature and adjusted person in. Simply saying "Okay I forget everything" does not compel my brain to immediately erase the thousands of behaviors (which can range straight up to OCD level Neurotic) and all of the accompanying original trauma that they stemmed from. I can say "I want to move on" or "I forgive myself" or "I want to start over" as many times as I want, the sad fact is simply uttering those words does not undo the psychological and physiological conditions or events that have brought me up to this point. I can't not let them affect me short of entirely erasing their presence from every part of my being. Our entire unconscious mind is literally "made" from those early years and as much as we love to wax poetic about "starting a new leaf" to change any of those will require massive amounts of constant mental effort for the rest of my life to push hard against (and therefore deny) that aspect of myself just to achieve a superficial level of outward balance. (But it wouldn't be true inner balance, as I'd be opposing my deeper self to become an outwardly functional and responsible being.)

I'm currently living with someone. I want to say I'm helping her but really it's more about helping me. I have money, yes, but I lack the ability to care about myself. But she helps with that, even if she's just a friend, and as such will never satisfy my desire for a "Deeper connection" (as I currently cannot recognize platonic love as valid; it feels inherently "lesser" to me). I just don't see anything about myself that really makes me worth caring about beyond the basic food/water/sleep style upkeep. I just don't see any "point" in it, since it feels like a lot of work for absolutely nothing. To be born again, I feel certain I'm just going to have to be born again. I've been straddling a line lately trying to figure out what was authentically me versus what matches all this new age ascension and higher-thinking level attributes and I've come to realize that the only thing I can say about myself is that if any of this ascension stuff is true that means I'm just authentically broken and waiting for the next life time to "maybe" become something better than I am now.

I'm still going to see if I can try hypnotherapy (mostly regressive hypnotherapy) as a last ditch effort. But that first requires reforming my spending habits to save up. ^_^;; (Hard for me to put off certain-gratification now for small impulse purchases and take a risk saving up for a "maybe" therapy.) So it might take a while.