Love as Life’s Pulse

Love is life’s pulse, the beating current of energy that courses through life.

Love is nature’s force. The energy of real love is natural, ethereal, alive, and everpresent all around us. It does not require definition, nor acquisition. It is not necessarily tangible, as its true being is inseparable from the energy of nature and life itself. The lifeforce of energy is love when attuned to a higher frequency of personal being and opening. When healed, softened, open and feeling, accessing this abundant and everpresent energy requires no effort, only choice, when it flows within and all around. Choosing to love, be in love, express love, embody love, is ultimately a choice of courage and personal responsibility.

The material symbols of love we as humans have come to define are placeholder derivations of the energy of love. What we have come to understand as defined material outputs or examples of what love is or can be. Humans are trained to focus on the obtainment of these material outputs, as the sole source of the energy of love. Love becomes externalized, and sourced as a resource, through our social philosophy and lens of capitalism. Through early socialization we oftentimes learn to abandon and violate ourselves, essentially learning how not to love ourselves. Learning a state of neediness, in which we learn to outsource and derive love externally from other people and things via relationships, roles, material objects, and productivity. Its a learned program of scarcity and survival, believing that we require other people, other things, other roles and validation to primarily meet the need of abundant love we know deep down we should have access to. The love that humans oftentimes talk about and chase, is not love itself, but sometimes the illusionary shadow of love. Shadows defined by the many unhealthy examples of love heralded in society, culture, media, history, and human ideals. We learn what love is and what to expect from it, by simply referencing the numerous shadow examples, perpetuating them, recreating them, and passing them down to our children.

Love can be the thing we chase; we can spend our whole lives working for it. But real love never requires us to earn it, or to deserve it, or to pay for it within ourselves, like a commodity. Perhaps yes we must work for real love, only because we need to spend the time to untangle and unlearn the programs and mindsets that perpetuate the shadows of love we learned early on. Learning to let go of the fear and clinging to the illusions and symbolic placeholders we believe to be love. There’s a process of returning to the energy of love, like when we were children. Learning to open again, to trust again, to be honest and brave again. Yet, be willing to mature and accept personal responsibility for one’s self. Being willing to open to new perspectives, nuances, and forms of what love is and can be. Healing the wounds of the shadows of love by digging deep into them. Reconnecting with the deepest, rawest, scariest, messiest memories within the murky, uncharted terrain of our being. Going deep into the darkest corners of our selves we may not wish to see, understand, or embrace. An excavation, a cleansing, a release of the old, the lies, the waste, and the decay. Healing and plowing our internal Earth, prepping it so we may plant new seeds for Love to take root and flourish with every season. Through this process, we learn new perspectives, new personal values, new intentions, new programs, new behaviors and new actions, to evolve our self in order to create different experiences and realities. This is the experimental process of a life of Love.

I believe and have faith that it is every person’s wish in the world to be in love. No matter the many wounds inevitably any person will take on—simply by being socialized through the many unhealthy programs humans have come to create—every person desires to be in love. One may not have the program or training, or the experience, or the knowledge, or even the language or behavior, but real love does not need to be logically programmed in the mind. Real love is felt. It churns and turns over like the seasons. Flowing in and out like the tides of an ocean. Shaping us, informing us, working to recreate us. Its own language programmed in our soul and body’s natural being. A natural force and intelligence of its own, moving through us, if we let it, to inform our mind and actions. Without logic, or incentive, or expectation or gain, it comes during conditions of natural resonance and alignment. It is felt deep in the soul and being of the body. And it can be cultivated and nurtured within, if we wish to. Our potential and capacity for a life of love correlates with our embodiment, choice, free will, and, actions. Each of us can choose how much love we wish to embody and create in the world. Do we wish to experience a life of love? If so we must cultivate a more loving self.