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 HOWARD MARTIN

What brings us back to balance, what really heals us, is the magnificent, beautiful power produced by the intelligence of the heart. It never goes away, it’s always there. Sometimes we go away from it, but we can return to it. And when we do, it’s what can help move us beyond these feelings of sadness, depression, brokenheartedness.

The power of the heart is love—love for yourself and love for others. Love is the fast track to a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Health is not only to be well, but to use well every power we have.

—FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

CONTEMPLATION

Heart of Love

Put your attention on your heart and think these words:
Heart. Love. Joy. Peace. Happiness. Compassion. Loving-kindness.

Whatever idea you hold—peace, harmony, laughter, love, joy, compassion, kindness—this idea changes the energy of your heart. This idea shifts the heart into a healthy, coherent energy and rhythmic heartbeat.

Knowing that, put your attention back on your heart and try the contemplation again. Hold the ideas of love, kindness, compassion, peace of mind, and joy in your awareness in your heart. Hold each idea as if you are planting a seed. It will blossom and it will grow into the fruit of that idea. It will nourish your heart, your emotions, and your body.

13. Love and Relationships

Love is what we are in our essence, and the more love we feel in our hearts, the more it will be brought to us.

—DEEPAK CHOPRA

The basic energy of the universe is love. The energy of love is all around you and inside you.

 DEAN SHROCK

Everything is energy. And the core essence of the universe is an energy of love or complete harmony and order. So, whenever you are experiencing love, you are literally allowing for that flow of that life-force energy. It reminds the core of you of who you are as energy. And it realigns the molecules of your body so that they function in a more harmonious way.

 MARCI SHIMOFF

Love is like a radio station that’s always broadcasting. Our job is just to tune in to that radio station. Imagine that you’re tuning in to Love FM. When you do tune in, that is the frequency at which you will spend more and more time.

What we’re missing is the truth that love is who we are, that we’re actually an ocean of love. When we become more aware of that fact and we actually feel connected to that ocean of love inside, then instead of being love beggars walking around with little cups, hoping for other people to fill our cup with love, we become love philanthropists. We are just naturally overflowing in that love. It’s not an effort to give it away, because we know: it’s who we are.

Marci Shimoff, renowned expert on love, happiness, and success, has found in her research that there are four main stages of love. The bottom stage is called No Love, which is what we experience when we’re in pain or when we feel fear, or when we’re sad and disconnected from love.

A stage up from that is Love for Bad Reason, which Shimoff says is “basically No Love on painkillers.” This is when we’re trying to fill a void we feel inside. Usually we’re doing that by using things that are not supportive or simply bad for us—bad relationship, drugs or alcohol, food—to make up for the fact that we don’t feel love inside.

The next stage up is Love for Good Reason, which is when we get love in the context of a relationship or by deriving it from something outside of ourselves.

And what is the ultimate stage of Love?

 MARCI SHIMOFF

Now, there’s nothing wrong with having wonderful, loving relationships, or loving the work we’re doing and getting fulfillment from that. But if we base our experience of love on that external factor, then it can go away. It’s not a solid foundation for love. So, while Love for Good Reason is a wonderful thing, it’s not the ultimate state of love.

Love doesn’t need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.

—DEEPAK CHOPRA,
THE PATH TO LOVE

 MARCI SHIMOFF

The ultimate state of love is what I call Love for No Reason. Love for No Reason is an inner state of love that doesn’t depend on a person or situation or a specific romantic partner. When we feel that love, instead of looking outside ourselves to try to extract love from our circumstances, we bring love to our circumstances. When you’re in a state of Love for No Reason, you feel freedom. You feel expansion. You feel peace. You feel joy. You love just because. You don’t need a reason to love.

Shimoff quotes New Thought leader Emmet Fox about the power of love: “There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer . . . If only you could love enough, you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the Universe.”

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

—RUMI

Like many people, Linda Francis had been looking for the “right person” for years, yet couldn’t seem to make a relationship work. But her luck changed for the better when she was ready to tell herself “From now on I’m going to be the right person for myself.”

 LINDA FRANCIS

And when I became that right person, it didn’t matter whether I had a relationship or not. I didn’t care about that. What I care about is continuing to create Authentic Power in my life.

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