Last night in the Tuesday Mindshifters group in Woodstock, IL we listened\u00a0 to some of the discussion from yesterday’s\u00a0 Mindshifters Radio show in which a quote from Albert Einstein was mentioned.\u00a0 In that quote, Einstein says that the illusion that we are separate or separated from anyone or anything else, is a form of optical delusion.\u00a0 He goes on to say that the delusion leads us to hold special affection for a few people and things closest to us, and that this special affection creates a prison for us.\u00a0 He suggests that we need to eliminate the prison by extending our affection equally to all people and all of nature.<\/p>\n
When this was mentioned\u00a0 on the Internet show, it triggered a very strong response\u00a0 in at least one listener, who contacted my by email and let me\u00a0 know just how upset she was.\u00a0 So, when I got to the group last night I decided to share that portion of the Internet show with the group.\u00a0 Then we discussed the concepts, and the ways it was triggering for some people.\u00a0 The basic point of contention is that we are taught, at least in this culture, that we are to love family and close friends more than we love strangers, and those with whom we have very little contact.\u00a0 The question that was being posed by those who were triggered was, “Well then what is the point of friendship and lovers, if we feel the same way toward everyone?”.\u00a0 The people who were triggered were able to identify emotions like fear and confusion in response to the concept of having the same level of affection for everyone, and all of creation.<\/p>\n
As we\u00a0 discussed these important questions each person worked to realize that whatever emotion they were feeling, was their own personal creation.\u00a0 The point was made that Love is a noun, not a verb.\u00a0 We don’t Love others.\u00a0 We are however, capable of practicing the conscious awareness of our true nature as Love when we are with others.\u00a0 We also discussed how holding special affection for those who are closest to us is one sure way to plant the seeds of violence, and even war.\u00a0 If we value one person’s life above that of another, we will be willing to sacrifice or attack anyone\u00a0 or anything which we feel may threaten our “loved one”.\u00a0 The problem with this is that we will also be willing to attack anyone or anything which we feel is threatening our “special affection” or “special relationship” with that “loved one” even on an emotional level.\u00a0 We will even be able to feel rage and attack the person we say we “love”, if he or she threatens to “take their love away” from us.\u00a0 This in all likelihood is the basis of all domestic violence and emotional abuse.<\/p>\n
We also discussed the fallacy of assuming that Love is a “zero sum game”.\u00a0 If Love is a “zero sum game” that means that there is only so much Love to go around.\u00a0 If\u00a0 for instance I only have 100 units of Love available for me to give to others, then I better ration it so that I am sure I have enough for the people I feel are most important.\u00a0 Let’s say that I give 25 units of Love to each of my two children and 40 units of Love to my spouse.\u00a0 That would mean that I only have ten units left to give to everyone else in my life, so clearly there won’t be any left of the neighbor, or the person down the street, or the next town over, or those in another country.\u00a0 The way the creator set it up, we don’t have to extend less Love to our family members, so that there will be more Love for our neighbors and strangers.\u00a0\u00a0 Love grows as it is shared!<\/p>\n
I offer you the observation that Love is energy, and the more I give of it the more I experience my true nature as that energy, and the more I open myself to receive the experience of it in others.\u00a0 The energy of Love is the energy of creation, and the experience of it goes beyond the ability of words to describe it.\u00a0 Love grows as it is shared, and the experience of Love creates more of itself in an endless, ever expanding process.\u00a0 As Love creates, Love multiplies and expands.\u00a0 If you want to experience Love, don’t look to “be loved” by anyone or anything else.\u00a0 If you want to experience Love, extend the Love that you are, in each interaction with everyone, and everything in your\u00a0 life.<\/p>\n
After the discussion we had a very brave group member ask for support in doing a worksheet out loud in the group, despite the fact that she was “extremely anxious” about doing something in front of the group.\u00a0 She finally decided to do a worksheet on the extreme anxiety she felt about doing the worksheet.\u00a0 It was a very instructive process and the entire group benefited.\u00a0 We ended the process with several rounds of Faster EFT tapping and tapping out the Cortices from Body Talk Access.<\/p>\n
Thanks to all those who participated and to those who will be joining us tomorrow night for the Crystal Lake Mindshifters Group\u00a0 from 6:30 – 9:00 pm.\u00a0 800\u00a0 McHenry Ave. Suite B, Crystal Lake, IL. 60014<\/p>\n
We Come From\u00a0 Love, We Are Made Of Love, We Are Love!\u00a0 Everything else is false.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last night in the Tuesday Mindshifters group in Woodstock, IL we listened\u00a0 to some of the discussion from yesterday’s\u00a0 Mindshifters Radio show in which a quote from Albert Einstein was mentioned.\u00a0 In that quote, Einstein says that the illusion that … Continue reading