With February being the month of St Valentine’s Day, in our society this month has been designated the month of love. Hearts appear everywhere and we dedicate the 14th to the one we love.
But… how can we truly connect with another in love if we do not truly experience the state of Be-ing in Love – or vibrating at the frequency of Love – ourselves? No matter how hard we may try to be extra loving on this day, it is impossible for Love to be conjured up from the mind. True Love can only come from an overflowing heart – from Being in Love from the inside out.
Unless we first open, or tune in, to the wellspring of Love that resides in each and every one of us (yes, it really, truly does!), there is no way we can ever truly Love another.
So how do we embrace that experience?
I would dearly Love to share one way with you today; one that came to me during Sacred Movement one morning after pondering Be-ing in Love. It is especially powerful when practiced first thing in the morning – when we take our first bathroom break – and can be repeated any time during the day when we feel ourselves slipping out of Love again.
Early Morning Embracing Love Ritual
Shut the door and step in front of the mirror. Look deeply into your own eyes, so that the face almost becomes a blur. Place your right hand in the centre of your chest and your left hand on your solar plexus. Slowly and very gently, with awareness of what you are feeling, start rubbing those areas in a circular motion. Just let the hands go – they will find their own rhythm. Keep looking into our eyes and start saying: “I Love myself” over and over and over again. Let it become your mantra. Rub it in!
At first it may feel a little awkward. Let go of that. Give the mind the job to totally focus on the experience of feeling your hands on your body. Then bring your awareness deeper into your body and feel what is happening at the centre of your chest. Keep looking into your eyes, keep repeating the mantra. Allow the body to be loose. Relax fully into the moment. Your hands may start moving wherever they feel the urge to go: to your lower belly, arms or back or legs, or somewhere else. Allow them to start rubbing Love all over your body. Your feet may naturally want to start stepping, dancing to your mantra. Allow your dance to Love to develop.
Fully relax into it and en-JOY the experience!
At some point you will naturally return to prefect stillness. When that happens, take a few moments to really Be still. Focus on feeling your Aliveness. Feel the Love vibrating inside of you; radiating out from you. Experience this Radiance. This is who you really are. So, go out and smell in the roses – and Love it. Share your Be-ing in Love with your world – not by speaking about it, but by generously radiating the vibration of Love that you carry within you with everyone you meet, in every situation, in every experience. Know that by sharing it, it will not diminish, it will grow. So allow yourself to glow.
Let Be-ing in Love be your Guide from now on. When you can feel it, your heart is saying YES! When you don’t, your heart is saying no. Remain in this awareness and Love will naturally flow. When you find yourself slipping out of it, you know where to go: back to the bathroom mirror. If you can’t, then just go within and vividly imagine that you are practicing the ritual. With practice it works just as well! With practice it becomes stronger – and the effects last longer.
So, this month of hearts I would like to invite you to step into an ever-deepening experience of Love: for this one month, I challenge you to dedicate the first bathroom break you take upon awakening each morning to practicing this little Embracing Love Ritual. Every time you see a heart anywhere, let that be your reminder to do a quick check-in – and revisit it if you need to.
Have FUNNN with it!
This was an invited article that was first published in February 2012 in Amy Carr-Hilton’s newsletter at www.amycarrhilton.com
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