Hello, and thank you for visiting my blog. This is the very first article in my specialist area of love. Why specialist? I don't have children, I'm divorced, not even married right now, yet I do enjoy a very special relationship with my partner of 6 years. This in part has enabled me to understand love, the beauty of love, the variety of feelings it brings, and the endless supply I have! I've always felt love, I mean, loads of it, so that sometimes I feel I might burst with the enormous bubble that sits in my heart. (Actually, I feel it in other places too, like my stomach, my cheeks and ears when they flush, and when the hairs on my arms stand upright) That's why I enjoy giving it away, letting it go, so it can freely flow.
I cry happy tears at the drop of a hat sometimes, (hmm, a river of love?!) and I might be in a very open place, far too inconvenient for some to be that open with feelings. Well, I have always worn my heart on my sleeve, and I am happier this way, so long may it continue.
When I refer to love being 'all there is', I mean, it was there before we were born, when we were conceived (and even before that) there was love. We were nurtured and protected as we grew inside a woman's body. Then we were lovingly brought into this world by Nurses, Doctors and Midwives, and people held us gently and looked at us with love. That's how a lot of us first knew love. As we grew through our childhood, we experienced different emotions, and still we understood what love was.
We have all felt a combination of parental love, extended family love, love from siblings, friends, teachers, boyfriends, girlfriends, marital love, our own children's love, nephews & nieces, maybe even from grandchildren. The list of different types and sources of love is endless, as we can also incorporate love from our pets and other house-guests. We express love for people, beauty, situations, in the act of being grateful, in the powerful feeling of loss. It's all about love! Even anger and pain, can be caused when love is lost, and is quickly dissipated once love is found again. Love is the most powerful emotion there is.
I love love. I do believe most people prefer to love than to feel lesser emotions. We have a choice, and herein lies my reason for writing about love as a personal development tool. Some people don't realise that the choice is ours! AND, as we learn about life, emotions and we grow and mature, for love to be in its natural unconditional state, and therefore effective, it must start with love of self!
There are a lot of people who openly love others and who will not admit to loving their self. "It's vain to love oneself" I have heard, and; "It's more important to love others". I agree it is important to love others, and in order to feel the greatest love for others, it still starts with love of self, which isn't vain if it comes from the heart instead of the head.
I am going to cover all of the above in detail over forthcoming entries, and so I do hope you'll be back to catch up with me. Love is so many things, (some say it's blind!) and if it makes you feel good, then that's a key worth keeping. It's my intention to share my many visions of love with you, for the sake of love itself.
Sending love to you and yours,
Andrea Nicole Smart.
