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personal energy management—August 2008

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Getting Started With Personal Energy Management: The Energy of Love

Once again I have dithered back and forth as to what to write for this month's column. It really is hard to decide when absolutely everything in existence and everything we are is energy! I had originally planned to follow up last month's column on Attention with the energy of Intention. Then my intention changed to the energy of Change but I changed my mind when I thought of the energy of Thought. But once again, it is what is my own energy of attention has been focused on that I have been guided to write about, and that is the energy of Love.

Yes, I have Love on my mind. A lot! I read and think about Love, dream and speak about Love. So immersed in Love, the only thing left for me to do is to write about Love. So, what is Love, anyways? Ask 100 different people and you will probably get 100 different answers, but most people will agree that love is an emotion, a feeling one gets somewhere in the area of the heart. Something you fall into and experience if you are lucky, something you feel for your children, partners, certain family members and special friends. Then there are things and experiences we love. We love our homes, our cars, our vacations and our favorite foods. We love perfect spring days and wonderful music. We love paydays, chocolate and receiving gifts. (How many times have you heard yourself saying "I love (fill in the blank)!")

The love we have been conditioned to know is all that. But Love is so much more. Love is an energy, the unequaled Universal force. The energy of Love is the power that brought forth all that exists. It is the power, the beauty and the balance of all of creation. Love with a capital L is the vibration of energy that is infinitely powerful. It is the very fabric of the Universe in which we live, and of each cell in our bodies. Love is ultimately what we are. And through the energy of Love, there is nothing that cannot be cleansed, restored, created and, especially, healed. Healing is a restoration to the natural wholeness of our true essence: pure, unconditioned consciousness, which is evolutionary, perfect health, infinite creativity and abundance, unboundedness and perfect freedom and bliss. In other words … Love.

"But," you say, "that cannot be so! If Love is all that is, what about all the bad that is in the world? The sickness, the greed, starvation, war and poverty? The evil?" And again, I will tell you that Love is all there is, it is only our perception, our belief, that there is anything else. The perception that anything exists besides love is the realm of reality which humanity has created over eons of distorted thought processes. And, as everything in existence needs it's opposite to experience its reality, the opposite of Love is in its own way, necessary. For, if we do not know what Love is not, we will not know what Love is. With the knowledge of both, it is then that we are enabled to choose which to perceive … which to allow ourselves to be.

When we choose Love's primal polarity, fear, we experience all of the products of this basic emotion; namely all of the "bad" that we see in the world. Fear's most popular child is very likely hate. We hate that which we fear, and we fear that which we are ignorant of. If we only knew and understood that all but Love is an illusion, we would see that there is nothing to fear. We are all One, and we are Love. It is the misunderstanding of the ages that we are anything separate. But again, it is a necessary misunderstanding, for if we didn't first know what the experience of separation was, we could not understand and appreciate the truth of Oneness, which is the Absolute, which is Love. This is what is commonly known as the Law of Relativity. You cannot know here without knowing there. You cannot know light without knowing dark. You cannot know Love without knowing fear, which we can possibly view as a necessary "evil."

In understanding the effects of resonance and mass consciousness, we can readily see how our world has gotten into the shape it's in. It is well recognized that the majority of humanity operates at well below its optimal level of awareness. In other words, most people are sleep walking through life, not understanding that their thoughts, emotions, words and deeds create their reality. The general population does not see that in choosing to believe the illusion of relativity, their negative vibrations literally combine with the negative vibrations of billions of other people to create an entire world of negative illusion. This mass of low vibrational energy creates what we perceive as our world's unsolvable problems, its evils. When we as individuals understand that fear based thoughts actually manifest as the negative aspects of our existence, it is then that we will begin to choose fear's opposite, Love. As more and more individuals awaken, which is what many of us are observing in our own lives and the lives of those around us, and indeed, even globally, we will eventually reach the "tipping point" of critical mass. It is at this moment the energy of Love will fulfill its promise that "Love conquers all."

Now, think about this, living a life completely free of fear. What might we accomplish; what might we become? If we did not have a fear of lack, our thoughts and emotions would attract abundance. If we did not fear the unknown, all would become known. If we did not fear sickness, we would become well. If we had no fear, we would have only Love.

"All of this sounds very nice," you say, "but how does one become fearless?" And again, I tell you, you simply choose fear's opposite, Love.

Choosing the energy of Love is only as complicated as you make it. It can be as simple as a blink of the eye, or as hard as climbing Mount Everest. It is only as hard as you choose it to be. Choosing to be the energy of Love is not something new you have to learn or be taught. It is simply a remembering of what you truly are, a rising awareness of your true nature … of your soul. As best I can explain it, it is a surrendering of all that you are not, shedding the lacquer-like layers that you and others have applied to your being which have hidden you from your truth.  Allow the energy of Love to arise, as if being born again to the purity of first life.

It was two years ago that I was suddenly awakened to what I know as Truth, that all is Love. As I experienced this spontaneous and glorious expansion into the truth of what Is, I remember writing, "If I have a god, it is Love." It was not until this past year, however, that I experienced an enormous epiphany. If my god is Love, then Love IS god, as one of the most ancient of spiritual texts states. "God is Love!" And since god is reportedly all there is, being infinite, unbounded, omnipotent etc., then so is Love! And I knew that this was a "God" I not only wanted to accept, (versus the “larger-than-life old man in the sky with white hair and beard who decides who's been good and who's been bad, version) but devote my soul's energy to. And so I do. I choose the energy of Love, for that is what I am. That is what we all are.

It is in choosing to be Love that we become enlightened....self-realized. We literally realize our true selves. This is the choice of all Masters of all ages, choosing Love in every circumstance, every instance and every moment.

As it has been said, “Love is the Answer.”

(Now what was your question?)

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