Love can never hurt

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Why do we say ‘Love Hurts’?  To me this statement is completely false. 

What makes us think or feel that love hurts?  The things that hurt us are normally our reactions to what we perceive another has done to us, i.e., it could be that a relationship has ended, a loved one has behaved or said something that hurt you or you may feel that you are being treated unjustly or any of so many things that bring out a negative reaction.

These are all reactions to situations that arise; it has nothing to do with love.  Love is the purest and highest energy in creation.  And anything done with love as the foundation can never hurt.  Other aspects of love are truth, joy, happiness, hope, etc.

Fear, the opposite of love, has all the negative and opposite reactions of love – anger, hurt, hatred, jealousy, insecurity, desolation, anything that has a negative energy.  When we feel one of these aspects, we are experiencing an aspect of fear and we tend to react to these situations from a foundation of fear.

Somehow and I don’t know why, we as humans seem to be wired to live unconsciously, it is only the great teachers like Jesus Christ, Buddha, Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) and other enlightened beings who have come to earth completely conscious and living in Love.  And even these great teachers who graced our planet had to undergo trials and hardships to wake up to that enlightenment.  But once our great teachers moved into enlightenment, they then started living in love and all their actions were based on the foundation of love bringing to us the great wisdom of their teachings.  None of us whichever religion we follow can deny that we get comfort and solace in our religion when it is based on love.

So why is it that we tend to live our life based on fear (this includes all our experiences of want, need, insecurities, anger, unjust, etc.) when we can so easily live our life on love’s foundation?  All we have to do is to start living consciously.  We need to start being conscious of how we react to a situation; ask the question ‘is my reaction based on love or on fear?’  When we start doing this and start being aware of whether we are reacting from love or fear, we can start the shift to basing our reactions on only love’s foundation. It may not be easy at the start, as we tend to react on auto pilot most of the time.  But if we start by being aware that we react from fear and then consciously changing that to reacting from love, we can I believe over a period of time change to living only with Love as a foundation. 

This has been my experience; while I am a long way away from living only in Love, I can see how much I have changed from the time I started being aware of how I react to situations.  Now whenever I feel that I am reacting from fear, I immediately take a step back from the situation, allow myself to calm down, consciously bring love into the situation and work to change my reaction to act from love.

Love can never hurt; we just have to open ourselves to see and know this.

In Love and Light