Whenever a person comes to me for counselling I am vert aware of their thoughts and actions in relation to the foundation of more or less love.
THOUGHTS / ACTIONS
LOVE / LOVELESS
Of course, I have never had anyone sit down on the therapist couch and tell me how wonderful life is! So, loveless thoughts and actions are always the fundamental reason for seeking out counselling.
When listening to anyone's story, I find that everything can be attributed to three clusters of behaviour.
Or mind, body, and spirit.
Using the toys in the image above, I can start to demonstrate which cluster their experience fall into. For instance, anxiety attributes to loveless thoughts and loveless action, so does depression. Placing the glass over the toy representing the feelings cluster demonstrates the blocking of your loving flow. This begs the question, "What is it that you want to experience in your life?"
The answer is always the same, "More love, more happiness, more peace, more joy."
The answer is unconscious automatic habits that function ten times faster than you can think. We are taught to "shields up" whenever we think we are threatened, and thus block the flow of love from within us and distort our view of the world. Having practiced this lovelessness for extended periods of time, it becomes habbit, and then automatic unconscious habbit. This shield goes up so fast that you are unaware that you have disconnected from your true loving awareness, and blame others.
Of course we do not like the discomfort this shielding brings, which brings more strengthened opportunity to blame others for the discomfort and attack, or blame yourself for the discomfort and abuse yourself, thus further strengthening the shield. This brings resistance to resistance, and experience becomes more and more loveless.
It is impossible to stop this unconscious automatic habbit once it is established. Yet our society continues to punish, fine, and jail people in an attempt to stop this habbit.
The only way to change a habbit you do not like, is to create a new habbit that you do like, and practice this new habbit frequently enough to make it unconscious and automatic.
Like learning to play a new sport, the rules need to be identified, the skills need to be practiced frequently enough that the actions become automatic.
Regular and frequent practice periods need to happen many times per day for short periods of time to build new skills and habbits, or restore old habbits that have not been used in a while.
What you are seeking is love, peace, happiness and joy, and the only reason you seek that is because you have experienced it before. You don't go to the cupboard looking for something you have never experienced before.
Love, peace, happiness and joy are an energy that can only be experienced. As an energy, it can only be experienced NOW.
First step - notice when your shield has been activated by your unconscious mind. (always brings a feeling of discomfort.)
Be aware that discomfort is a focus on the past, and holds you out of NOW.
Next step - restore your love flow. Explore a time when you have experienced the love, joy and peace that you seek, and you will begin to experience that loving energy NOW.
This easy short meditation helps to bring you back to NOW and when practiced frequently every day, helps to build a new habbit fast.
Remember there is only love and joy, or a call to help get there!
There are three simple questions that can help to repair an uncomfortable situation.
Allow time for the answers to come through, explore your loving options, and follow through.