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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
