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Love is perhaps the most misunderstood term and definitely the most addictive substance in the world. It remains the common topic of almost every movie, song and talk-show that hits the airwaves. We learn about the painful aspect of losing love such as, “a razor that leaves your Soul to bleed”, to an “achy breaky heart”. The loss and separation from love and has been taught to all of us since early childhood. Our spiritual challenge is to mature the ego's love into the Soul’s version of Divine love, for this is where the power to transform your life begins.
Spiritual growth has one main function – To learn to express our Soul's love more than our ego’s version of love. Love is more than just a feeling. It is a state of mind, a perception of life and a force of spiritual energy. Love is what we’ve all come here to learn to express into the world. Your Soul’s love holds the answers you seek to every problem you face, it clarifies confusion and it is the healing balm of all pain and disease. It is the foundation of spiritual growth and evolution.
In order to open to the love of your Soul, you must resolve the paradox of love. The paradox is, “Love is all that is and love is not enough!”
Huh?!? How can love be everything and not enough?
Answer – Within our physical world of duality, there is only love and its opposite expression – the absence or separation from love. This is only an illusion and not the truth, we are never separated from Divine love. When we focus on the ego's version of love then we feel a separation. The separation from love is experienced as pain, fear and is the root of all personal negativity and crisis.
Love requires your conscious choice (free will) in order for it to be enough and to truly change your life. Without the conscious choice to be a loving person, the ego’s version of love will keep you feeling powerless. When the choice to love is made and action is taken, then love transforms, heals, guides and creates miracles in your life. Love then becomes the answer you seek.
Deep within the depth of your Soul, there is a hunger to give and receive love and the way to activate this natural process is to begin to care. You can not love anyone or anything if you do not care. Apathy suffocates the Soul and is the enemy of genuine love. The only remedy for apathy is to open your heart and begin to care.
The love of Soul is built upon a foundation of caring. To fully understand what that is, it becomes necessary to define, “Act of Caring.” This action is a simple two step process.
Step One: Pay Attention. An act of caring begins when you choose to ‘Pay Attention’ to the needs of someone or something. Listening with your ears, your mind and heart in order to determine someone else’s needs for security and pleasure begins all acts of caring. Rarely will an individual tell you what their needs are and it takes a caring person to pay attention in order to discover and help fulfill those needs.
The second step involves responding to those needs with purposeful action.
Step Two: Giving. Giving to the person (or thing) in order to help them feel greater security and pleasure in order for them to grow, evolve and become more of who they are. These two steps completes a genuine act of caring.
Example: When you care for a plant, you’ll notice (paying attention) when the leaves are drooping and you choose to give it water, something it needs to feel more secure and pleasure and to help it continue to grow and evolve. This is an authentic act of caring for your plant.
To care for yourself is also a vital component to your own happiness and when you identify and pay attention to your own needs and respond to yourself in order to feel greater security and pleasure that produces personal growth, then you are caring for yourself in a genuine way.
The ego’s version of love is about mimicking the words. It is easy enough to say the words, “I care for you.” However, if your actions are in conflict with your words then it isn’t real caring. You must feel the words in your heart and mind otherwise it has no real meaning an becomes another manipulation of the ego.
The ego often defines caring by how much it worries. An ‘act of caring’ is not the same as an ‘act of worrying’ about others. Worry is a negative energy. The ego will convince itself that caring is about worrying for others. It is not. Caring is about genuine concern and responding to needs for security and pleasure.
In order to awaken the love of your Soul it is vital to start caring for yourself and others. Whether it be a friend, spouse, cat or plant this formula works well. It is the foundation of caring that allows the Soul’s love to awaken and solve the problems, heal the confusion and end the pain of separation. The result of opening your heart and mind to being vulnerable enough to care for yourself and others produces the magic and miracles, that only Divine love - the love of your Soul - can bring into your life.
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Michaiel Patrick Bovenes is a creative writer, author and professional speaker and teacher. He has a popular series of guided visualization meditations, he calls, "Soul-utions". He offers classes and words of wisdom in many articles published in various magazines worldwide. He currently resides in San Francisco, CA.
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