My most pedantic episode ever. While I am a pretty touchy-feely hippie kind of guy, I shy away from the overly emotional and more ‘woo-woo’ concepts. I don’t believe in the ‘secret’ (though I do think a positive attitude attracts positive things) and I don’t like gratuitous cheesiness. But I have had multiple experiences that lead me toward Love.
I have had somatic experiences I can’t explain other than to say I felt an internal Love permeating toward all things external.
I used to think love was some magical Disney power that you either found or didn’t. Fortunately, life experiences changed my mind. I now understand what various types of human love look like in different relationships. Spousal love. Parental love. Sibling love. Friendship.
I had preconceived notions about what I ‘thought’ love was. And I was wrong. I think many of us do this. We learn about love from books and TV. Or I guess TikTok and Instagram today. Hopefully, we are lucky enough to have these ideals tested and realize the inaccuracy of popular thought.
All of these lines of evidence suggest to me that love is an internal sensation. Almost like a sixths sense, Love seems to originate from somewhere in the region of my heart and upper abdomen. It feels related to sunlight, but that may just be a correlation to the sensation.
The key is that love emanates OUTWARD, not the other direction. Most of us think love is something ‘out there’ that may or may not enter our bodies, minds, and hearts.
Love is a choice. You have to open yourself to the opportunity of feeling it. Then you can direct it. And then you can receive it. I think that’s how it works.
Love is in each of us. We are all equally able to feel, direct, and receive love. But we first have to stop expecting it.
Love is the ultimate non-doing. If you’re looking for love, you aren’t going to find it. You have to relax back into it.
I truly think you have to feel it first, to understand.
Feeling love can be learned by:
-experiencing nature
-meditating
-psychedelic experiences
-music
and probably in many other ways.
In short, I think all the poets and songwriters are correct. Love is all you need. Love is all there is. These things are true, just in a different way than you think.
Podcast stream: https://pdcn.co/e/https://chtbl.com/track/CGDA9D/www.buzzsprout.com/530563/12391504-kew-115-love-is-all-you-need.mp3?download=true
YouTube stream: https://youtu.be/R7ADRjs_nu4