When You Let Yourself Feel Love...

When you let yourself feel Love, you feel a presence in your heart. From there, you have a choice to brush it off or breathe it in. When you breathe it in, it glows like an ember glows when you blow on it. It fills you and takes you to heavenly heights.

Love takes our breath away; even when it just touches us on the surface. But from there we have a choice to breathe it in--to allow it to  change us forever.

While holding my grandson for the first time I marveled at God's attention to detail. In awe of the perfection of this little being and graced to have received the invitation to hold my son's 6 hour old infant, I was in Love. But then I remembered that there was more. I had a choice to brush it off or breathe it in. Pausing for a moment I wondered how much more Love I could withstand. It was a little scary. Scary in part because this much Love would likely touch me to tears. Deciding that I was okay with tears, I breathed Love in, the tears flowed and in the absence of fear so did the Love.

The world melted away as Love flowed freely through us, between us and all around us. Being in Love was being immersed in Love. That moment changed me forever.

Clearly I wasn't afraid of what this little newborn might think of me. I wasn't trying to get his love or gain his affection. I had made a conscious choice to not be afraid of what others might think of my tears. I just purely wanted to know and be known, to enjoy and be enjoyed to bond without  expectation or anticipation. It's easier to allow Love to flow with an infant, in nature, with a baby animal or a new relationship because it's safer--there is less expectation, hence less fear. I do believe that--with practice, intention and acknowledgment of fear--these encounters can be more frequent.

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." ~Rumi

This little bundle of pure joy reminded me of how Love flows without our barriers of fear.

• Do you give Love permission to flow or do you allow others to decide how it should flow for you?
• Have you ever been in a place of beauty that touched you to tears?
• Have you experienced this feeling with another human being? Perhaps early in a relationship before fear took up housekeeping?
• Have you experienced it at a graduation, a wedding or some other time when fear wasn't around?

If my experience intrigues you and there are no newborns to bond with, seek out a place or circumstance where all the elements are pleasing to you. Seek out a place free of fear where you want to be touched by it all purely for the joy of it. Immerse yourself in the sights, the sounds, the smell and the feel. Engage all your senses then make the choice to breathe it in--to be touched in a way that will change you in an uplifting way forever--and see what happens.

Friends in this Love,
Dr. Trish