Love, and the need to love

In the past 30 years, one of the most powerful developments in the growth of human consciousness has been our awareness around being able to “let love in” and the issues around our willingness to receive love.

For this writing, I want to take a different tack on the flow of love. In contrast to the love we receive, is the less attended view on the love we express.

Love has a natural cycle; we put it out and it comes back. If we are unable to express our love, then we cannot experience its receiving. So if you are not feeling loved, it is often a good idea to look at how free you are in your loving expression.

Have you ever thought about the love you feel for someone special, someone who is close to you. How important is it to you that you are able to express the love you feel for them? On many levels I believe the giving of love is incredibly important, especially to the person giving it. Yes, receiving love is a beautiful thing and it is important we keep the receiving channels open. But when it comes to love, the act of giving is more than just doing something for someone else . . .

In the physical universe, love is constantly flowing – the movement of love cannot stop. When we feel a deep love for someone special in our life, it is imperative to our emotional health that we release that love to them. Love as an emotional energy needs to be expressed, it WANTS to be expressed – just like all our other emotions. I believe it is an essential function of the human experience that we are freely able to express the fullness of love we feel within us – in an easy and effortless way.

So why don’t we?

When we hold back the expression of our love, it can be for a thousand reasons. In human relationships it can usually have something to do with how we view the receptivity of the other person. Perhaps you feel they have hurt you in some way and for that reason you hold back your love. But if you do that, you will find the flow of love that comes to you from ALL other directions in life, will be limited by your action to hold it back in this one way.

Love is omnipresent.

The cycle of love needs flow. To whatever level you limit its outward expression you reduce in measure what comes back to you. A huge part of being emotionally healthy rests on our ability to express love’s emotional energy. If, for any reason we are unable to, love will stagnate within us and that frozen love will eventually end our days.

Many people have withdrawn from being ‘in love’ because of the emotional challenges this level of intimacy brings. A broken heart will often run for the cover of solitude, but in this aloneness there is healing – I say, take your time.

I am a believer in spending time with ourselves. To learn to love ourself is the most essential level of love. As we learn to enjoy and to love the person we are, it is a natural flow-on that we attract a loving partner with whom we can mutually express that love. When we are ready to express the fullness of what we feel, a soul mate will appear.

Love needs no reason I know, but when we consider how the outward pouring of our love is prerequisite to our emotional health, what better reason is there to love with all our heart . . .

Love needs to flow, love wants to flow . . .
Express your love with all your heart and all your life
and for no reason hold it back lest its flow reduces in return.

In love,
Jeffree