WhiteLove
26th April 2015, 14:15
Visualize this:
http://c767204.r4.cf2.rackcdn.com/75d2dac2-0da3-4772-8fd8-0c91b48c47c3.jpg
Look, they love it.
Loving, it is so simple, so complete, so peaceful, so perfect, so enough. I find that sometimes in this age of business, money, stress, lack of time, issues etc. we should just forget about that for a while find something or someone we love and just love. Every day we pay attention to so many details, although what we should really pay attention to in life is what we love and really take the time to love that, really give yourself 200% permission to love that fully more than everybody else does, sink into that moment, let time dissolve and just love, to be like those cats above.
Recently I discovered I was not sensitive enough about what/who I love, to credit what you love requires being awake, it requires appreciating those little things in life, it requires honesty and positivity. When you instead are spoon fed with requirements all around you, bad news, false news, bad information, disturbing information, confusing information, got to do this, got to do that etc. all of those qualities of being present here and now and loving here and now, are run over. That's not good. The way to measure your happiness I am starting to believe is about looking at the love amount/hour ratio. If every hour of your life contains some form of loving, you are living a great life.
Here are a few techniques.
Let's say you love a certain type of coffee. Now, in your new life of loving, every time you drink a cup of that coffee, let time slow down, close your eyes, sip that coffee and enjoy every little taste detail of that cup of coffee that you love. Let no stressful ideas into that experience, just let the experience of that cup of coffee be as full as it can be. Or let's say you like a certain song you just discovered. Stop and listen. Listen many times, pay attention to every little detail that you love. Feel how your whole being enjoys the beauty of this music. Allow yourself to love this, allow the gratitude to really be present. Allow it to be what it is, not more, not less, because what it is, that is what you love.
Every time you find yourself in a stressful non-loving situation, recall and visualize the image above. Then pay attention to what is going on around you and what you are able to do in this particular moment that would enable you to love, can you find any aspect of it that you truly love? Someone's voice maybe? An idea? A comment? When so, re-focus onto that and love it, say something nice, like: "Hey, what a nice voice you have, it's music to my ears". Or, "hey, I love that shirt, where did you buy that, it's really nice".
But it could also be other things, things that you might typically associate with "stress". Like for instance exercising. Is there any aspect of this that you love? That is what you should be focusing on when you exercise and then who knows maybe you start to love that too.
I think what happens is that you become distracted, stressed, expectations and goals are thrown into the experience, so what you're left with is simply something that you don't fully love the way you could.
And if your life is so extremely dense and packed with stuff, that you cannot have a single minute of pure loving, then you need to seriously change things at all costs, because that is not living a great life, it is living a life full of suffering.
In essence, life is too short not spending your time loving what you love.
http://c767204.r4.cf2.rackcdn.com/75d2dac2-0da3-4772-8fd8-0c91b48c47c3.jpg
Look, they love it.
Loving, it is so simple, so complete, so peaceful, so perfect, so enough. I find that sometimes in this age of business, money, stress, lack of time, issues etc. we should just forget about that for a while find something or someone we love and just love. Every day we pay attention to so many details, although what we should really pay attention to in life is what we love and really take the time to love that, really give yourself 200% permission to love that fully more than everybody else does, sink into that moment, let time dissolve and just love, to be like those cats above.
Recently I discovered I was not sensitive enough about what/who I love, to credit what you love requires being awake, it requires appreciating those little things in life, it requires honesty and positivity. When you instead are spoon fed with requirements all around you, bad news, false news, bad information, disturbing information, confusing information, got to do this, got to do that etc. all of those qualities of being present here and now and loving here and now, are run over. That's not good. The way to measure your happiness I am starting to believe is about looking at the love amount/hour ratio. If every hour of your life contains some form of loving, you are living a great life.
Here are a few techniques.
Let's say you love a certain type of coffee. Now, in your new life of loving, every time you drink a cup of that coffee, let time slow down, close your eyes, sip that coffee and enjoy every little taste detail of that cup of coffee that you love. Let no stressful ideas into that experience, just let the experience of that cup of coffee be as full as it can be. Or let's say you like a certain song you just discovered. Stop and listen. Listen many times, pay attention to every little detail that you love. Feel how your whole being enjoys the beauty of this music. Allow yourself to love this, allow the gratitude to really be present. Allow it to be what it is, not more, not less, because what it is, that is what you love.
Every time you find yourself in a stressful non-loving situation, recall and visualize the image above. Then pay attention to what is going on around you and what you are able to do in this particular moment that would enable you to love, can you find any aspect of it that you truly love? Someone's voice maybe? An idea? A comment? When so, re-focus onto that and love it, say something nice, like: "Hey, what a nice voice you have, it's music to my ears". Or, "hey, I love that shirt, where did you buy that, it's really nice".
But it could also be other things, things that you might typically associate with "stress". Like for instance exercising. Is there any aspect of this that you love? That is what you should be focusing on when you exercise and then who knows maybe you start to love that too.
I think what happens is that you become distracted, stressed, expectations and goals are thrown into the experience, so what you're left with is simply something that you don't fully love the way you could.
And if your life is so extremely dense and packed with stuff, that you cannot have a single minute of pure loving, then you need to seriously change things at all costs, because that is not living a great life, it is living a life full of suffering.
In essence, life is too short not spending your time loving what you love.