LOVE IS OUR TRUE NATURE
Believing our thoughts
Love is our true nature. It is what we are. That is an easy thought to think and a harder thought for most people to believe. If love is our true nature, meaning yours, mine and every other single being on this planet, then why don’t we experience love all of the time? The answer is because we don’t believe that everyone and everything is love. It is that direct and that simple. We experience our beliefs about what is, not what actually is. We believe that this thing or that thing, this person or that person, or our very own ourselves, is not love. This is the source of all of our suffering, disconnection, frustration, and sickness.
The one thing we all have is the free will to believe whatever it is that we want to believe. This is our creative power, and it is how we create the reality that we experience. Circumstances are not reality. As tempting as it is to project our power onto them, fortunately they have no power. This however doesn’t stop us acting as if they do. For example we believe that “when John stops being so selfish then I’ll love him again” or “when Katie stops being mean to me I’ll be able to relax” or “when my kids listen to me then they will be safe” or “when the governmental systems change we will have peace again”. I could go on and on. Outsourcing our power seems to be the name of the game. We do it all day long, consciously or not. What is an experience of reality even like without this? I could tell you now until the end of time that you are love and that so is everything and everyone else, but if you hold onto your beliefs that something is not love, then that is what you will experience. Not love is your reality in those moments where you believe something other than you has to change in order for you to experience love again.
It doesn’t make us deluded or naive to see our’s and other’s true nature, but your ego mind with its deep convictions in its beliefs would say otherwise. For it to see love in everyone and everything would destroy its reality. The ego mind would be quick to caution you that you are not safe to see love. It would tell you that you are being stupid like a little child and that you are going to get hurt believing such things. It would offer up a plethora of examples and images where things and people are harmful, not kind, or not loving, including yourself. It will do anything and everything to hold onto its reality because in upholding its beliefs is where it feels safe, and since most of us are misidentified as our ego mind and not as love, we hold on for survival, our survival we think. Really though all we are holding onto is our death because each and any moment where we don’t rest in love is a moment of separation from ourselves, which is what death is, separation.
RECOGNIZING LOVE
Reality & delusion
There is no problem in recognizing everyone for what they are, love that is. Gosh if more of us did this, then more of us would get reflections of our actual selves rather than the projections that people put out on us of what they believe we are that is other than love. Those projections are simply what they think and believe about themselves, because they don’t know who they are yet. Getting love reflections from those who already know themselves makes it easier for us to start to believe that we too actually are love. Believing this is the one and only thing that can change our individual reality for us into a greater experience of love, and the collective shared reality eventually can’t help but follow suit.
Imagine a reality where you know you are love and so do 30 of your closest friends, or let’s go even bigger than that, where everyone in the town you live in knows their true nature, which means they know yours as well. What is it like to drive down the road with no more road rage or to go grocery shopping and all of the cashiers and other people in the store are happy. If someone hits your car in the parking lot they wait for you to come out of the store and together you find a solution. Would we even need lawyers or police people anymore? Say there is a flood in your apartment, your landlord comes over and calls the people needed to clean up the water and invites you stay at his house for a few days or weeks during the clean up. He/she does this because you being without a dry home is the same as them being without a dry home. In love no one is separate. You fall off your bike and break your arm. You head over to the emergency room and they repair it for you. Maybe there is still insurance, maybe not, but either way you receive what you need. You being taken care of, takes care of them. There is no difference. There is no more stress, because a stressful thought is a belief in separation. No more inner turmoil means likely very little disease exists.
Call me delusional, but I believe this is more like reality than not. An honest, grounded and fearless world where we are simply moved by the impulse of our true nature, which is love. Where does this world start? Inside of me and inside of you. It lives inside of how we believe ourselves to be and thus how we believe others to be. The delusion is what we are living now. We are living the delusion that we are not love and therefore that is the experience for many. I know it seems very real, like reality, and that is because you believe it. What you believe will always feel very real to you. Not love being felt as real as love. Both are equally valid as far as experiences go. No one better than the other. It is really just a matter of preferences. What do you prefer to experience your reality as? Love or not love.
The belief in what you are is always within your choice to choose and coming to know yourself as love doesn’t mean that you stop learning, discovering or growing. You continue to do so just without the confusion of your true nature being obscured by you. You move from love, which means you act, behave and believe in accordance with a reality of love. There is no need for “corrective” actions because when you come from love you create in love. You can’t act not loving even if your tried, because you’d have to delude yourself again that you aren’t love in order to do so. There is an inherent goodness that is, when we know our true nature. This is true for everyone. Any act of not love is simply confusion as to what our true nature is.
Don’t let circumstances decide your reality for you. Decide for yourself what you are, align with your true nature and then go about the world that appears to be outside of you seeing that. Observe how people and circumstances begin to change inside of your perception of them, but don’t determine your seeing based on what they do or don’t do, determine your seeing based on what you know yourself and all others to be. Everything and everyone responds to their nature being seen. We are hungry for it more than anything else. Not seeing our nature is the root of all of our addictions. Through our addictions we are trying to get or feel our true nature by consuming something in our circumstances rather than just giving the good feeling to ourselves. You can give it to yourself just as easily. It’s only a choice away. A choice to believe that you are love.
Dr. Amanda Lalita Love, Network Spinal Chiropractor & Somato-Respiratory Integration Facilitator, Boulder, Colorado
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