Today I considered the idea of Love and I began to recognize how many different types of love there is.  I realize how many different ways we can show love and feel loved.  I realize how each us desires to be loved.  I realize how often we become disappointed by love.  I also realize how the people we love most sometimes seem to get our worst behavior as humans.

So What Is Love Really???

For me the answer to that has taken multiple forms.  If you asked me when I was 16 I would have given one answer “it is finding someone to make me feel like everything  is ok”.  If you asked me when I was 20 I would have said “it is finding someone to spend your life with”.  If you asked me when I was 30 I would have said “it is sacrificing yourself for the people who you love”.  If you would ask me today I would say “it is finding that True Love that was always inside me, and taking each opportunity to pass it on to everyone I see, in each moment of the day.”  Now you might see that “everyone” and think that is impossible.  You might say “I just don’t have it in me to love everyone I come across in a day.  Well, I don’t either!  It isn’t about love created by you, because this is a different kind of love.  It is a Love that is already in you, you just have to tap into it!

When I think of tapping into our True Love Source, I think of those big oil drills like they have out in Texas.  I am not sure if you have ever seen them.  I haven’t seen them in person, but I have seen them on film.  They are like giant arms that repeatedly bore into the hard crusty earth to reveal that liquid oil underneath.  A “treasure” of our earth.  The thing that sticks out to me is that True Love is deep, and it is sometimes hidden and buried, and it is a treasure.   The tricky thing about treasure is that it is something we just want to hang on to it, but truly all treasure is meant to be shared, to be given away.  And such is Love!

So how do you tap this True Love Source? Or maybe you are thinking, How do I just even find it?

*Well the first part is this, know that it is definitely there.  You may not feel it yet, so just believe it for now.

*The second part is to look for ways to send Love to others because True Love is cyclical.  This can be just little things here and there.  It can be as simple as a smile to someone.  It can be a hello.  It can be an “I Love You” to your child out of the blue.  It can be picking up a dropped coin for a stranger in the grocery.  It can be a note of gratitude to someone who has helped you out.  It could be sending an encouraging text to someone who just pops in your mind.  The more you send love, the more Love comes back to you, the faster your True Love Source gets tapped.  Pretty soon Love is flowing out more and more!  See the circle?

*The third part is this- you will need to let go.  “WHAT???  ISN’T LOVE ABOUT ATTACHMENT TO OTHERS?”  Not really; Love is about letting go.  Remember that old saying- If you love something, let it go…Or something like that.  Well there is some truth to that old sentiment.  Now before you get all worked up, I am not talking about being aloof, unfeeling and unconcerned about your loved ones.  I am talking about being unattached to the outcome of giving Love to others.  It is loving others without imposing an agenda, and without an expectation of a return.

When you put these things in place, you will start to feel your True Love Source begin to open up and yield a beautiful flow of treasure for you and those who surround you each day.  So try it as an experiment for a week.  Then try it for another.  If you can make it an experiment for 40 days (the magic number), then this will be a new habit for you.  And probably one that is pleasing for you and those you Love!