Love is the drug

As I write this in the early hours of February 14, I feel automatically guided to write on the subject of love. In our modern age there is much scientific investigation toward the power of the heart and the emotion of love.
Let us, just for a moment, divert our attention to the word emotion. E MOTION - energy in motion. How often do we judge ourselves or beat ourselves up for not being in control of our emotions? Well, hello, the very nature of them, all of them, is that they move and flow, like a river they are not supposed to dammed up. Emotions are an essential part of our guidance system, they let us know if we are on or off track. So next time you kick-off giving yourself a hard time because you are not 'in control' of your emotions, STOP, take a breath, and say thank you. Next, ask your emotions what they are wanting you to see, to take a closer look at, or to appreciate.
OK, back to the very specific emotion of love. In the US the Institute of Heart Math, www.heartmath.org, is doing some amazing research into the power of the heart and the emotion of love. Our hearts create the strongest electromagnetic energy in our body, far bigger than the brain.
Interestingly, the Chinese word for heart and mind is the same - Hsin and in his book, 'Who Dies', Stephen Levine goes on to say, "For when the heart and the mind is clear they are of one substance, of one essence.
Science has proven that every cell has its own brain, its own intelligence. As I think about the number of cells in a human heart I think perhaps the intelligence naturally existing there is equal to anything found in the brain, perhaps it just operates in a slightly different way.
When you tune in to your heart and allow yourself to operate from that place it is amazing how life opens up before you. A Course in Miracles says there are only two emotions, Love and Fear. I know from personal experience that when I focus only on love, there is no space left over for fear to take hold. It is only as I forget to be heart centred that I feel the choking grip of fear snake its way into my body.

My friend Karen Fry is the CEO of a fantastic organisation inviting people to answer the question, "What does it mean for you to Be Love in the world?"  Find out more and give your support at: www.belove-passiton.com. I invite you to ponder this question and then imagine what the world would be like if each one of us took 100%  personal responsibility to only 'Be Love'.

Unconditional love is a state of being, it is not a place where 'I' or 'You' exist. It is like being in the field that Rumi speaks of, "Beyond right and wrong, there is a field, I will meet you there."
Generally in our world the love that is expressed is conditional. If you eat your dinner, do your home work, abide by my rules, then I will love you. It is no wonder that as adults we have no reference point on how to express unconditional love. We take these same conditions into our intimate relationships and are baffled that they don't work.

Being Love is like everything else, a practice and a choice. On this St Valentines Day, I invite you to practice and choose, knowing that each one of us has the power to change the world as we change the inner landscape of our heart.

Today I choose to be love in all that I think, all that I speak and all that I do. In this place of love I cease to exist and become one with all that is.

In Love. J x