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Choosing
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Susan
Helene Kramer
1. Choosing Love
2. Love in the Workplace
3. Practical Spirituality is Practicing
Love
4. Pure Love
The choice for love is our
decision. To love in each situation and circumstance,
regardless.
The choice for love is,
perhaps, prompted by our inner desire to 'be' love.
Practice loving shows us
that our body feels energized and our emotions elated when we show caring love.
And why is this?
I have found that my body is
most at ease when I feel loving and act with caring for others.
When our body is at ease our
circulation is unimpeded. Not just blood flow. But an easy flow of caring
thoughts and creative ideas stream through our mind when we are at ease with
ourselves.
The choice for love is then
opening us to our natural flow of energy and creativity.
A mind distressed is in a
different state than a mind de-stressed. And the difference is in mental
attitudes and their subsequent thoughts.
Even in the workplace we can
maintain a de-stressed mind rather than a distressed mind and its burden of
restless body. And we de-stress at work, home, or at play by keeping a caring
attitude for whatever we are involved in at the moment. Caring love is the kind
of love that keeps our juices of creativity and problem solving flowing. Caring
about the outcome of a project at work allows unobstructed natural energy to
flow through us to resolve our problems most easily. And in our work and
personal relationships we feel the most natural and fulfilled, when we act with
care.
In relationships, the choice
for love, the choice for caring love removes the egoistic, self-centered point
of view.
Caring love sees the
situation as a whole. Then acts for what is best for all concerned. And in the
end this surrender to the best for all involved leaves our body most relaxed, peaceful, and our mind restful, able to see without
blinders. Blinders to the whole good, set in place, when we feel we must
maintain our own point of view at all costs.
3. Practical Spirituality is Practicing
Love
What is practical
spirituality in relation to being loving?
The most practical way to
act is that which uses our time and energy optimally. And caring love, the
choice for love in action, does this most easily and gracefully.
We get the job done, the
family nurtured, ourselves nurtured, with attitudes and actions born of love,
and then lived with love.
Here are some hints to
prepare our mind for the idea that it is by making the choice for love that we
will be energized:
1. Keep or adopt the best intention for the situation;
2. Look at the varying points of view presenting, then review these, and see if
even more points of view come to mind;
3. Contact our inner Source directly through a conversation with the Self within,
just as if we were talking with a dear confidant;
4. Listen to the response from within after the inner conversation, which may
come as soft words of advice in the quietude we engender in our mind via a
period of positive Self talk;
5. Tune in with the Holy Vibration to recover peace of mind. I've outlined this
useful practice in the writing titled "Quiet Time''. The URL is: http://www.susankramer.com/QuietTime.html
6. Remove barriers that would keep us from loving fully, unconditionally, such
as the concept of separateness, and only energy for limited love being
available;
7. Practice giving with a full heart by showing kindness in daily interactions.
4. Pure Love
Pure love is caring love.
The choice for love is practicing pure love.
Pure love is our nature.
Pure love is our Source.
Pure love is pure energy and
it is an endless flow. Coming from a bottomless pit within to be used without
in our acts of caring and kindness.
Remember, we always seem to
have enough energy for the things we want to do. When we feel lethargic and a
friend suggests an activity we enjoy, don't we then almost spring up and into
action. How is this possible to be dragged out one moment and full of pep the
next?
It is attitude.
Positive attitudes energize
us. And when we adopt a positive attitude about what we consider a drudgery
even then we are energized.
And pure love gives us
access to the most energy for ourselves. When we make the choice for love we
have all the free-flowing energy available to us that we could ever want. It
fills us to the gills and overflows as joy. And in the overflow we become as
joy.
And that is why it is
pertinent to our lives to make the choice for love. To feel the never ending
flow of joy in our lives.
Joy
abundant
Joy our reward and support
for making the choice to live lovingly
Our Source, Resource
Ever supplying us with the energy to live joyfully
Susan Helene Kramer is an international author of more than 50
collections and thousands of articles on rhythmic dance, ballet, music,
philosophy, social issues, yoga, meditation, and practical spirituality for
children, teens, adults and those challenged, and with her husband, Stan Schaap- http://www.stanschaap.com lives in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Text and photo copyright 2000-2013 Susan
Kramer
Santa Barbara, California USA
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Published by Creations
Photo
at top of page is by Susan Kramer at Santa Barbara Botanical Garden
