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To summarize this far…

March 13, 2013

So far, the series on the nature of love is up to 13 insights. Hope they have helped you in your journey into love! To summarize what we have contemplated up to now: Think of love as energy that is in some measure enlivening, expanding and creating. It is beneficently supporting, nourishing, allowing and thus…

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18 Part Series: The Nature Of Love

January 21, 2013

Introducing An 18-Part Series: The Nature Of Love 1st Insight: Love Is an Energy Posted on 01/21/2013 by Valerie Varan Love is an energy, an energy that pulses from Divine Life into the heart of all living things, interconnecting all that is, the spiritual with the material. In September 2010, Today.com reported the story of…

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Stages of Love

January 16, 2013

Have you ever wondered how we tend to evolve in the ways of love? Here is a brief look at love as it unfolds through us. Stage 1: “I love me” This is the stage where “me, me, me” is the object of love. We focus on our safety, security, self-preservation, appearance…the physical aspects of…

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Where are you on the ladder of love?

January 16, 2013

Though in reality love is already present in all dimensions simultaneously, it appears to us as if it evolves. Within ourselves as individuals, as well as within our social and cultural norms. It seems to enter our human consciousness in steps, as if we were climbing a ladder. From a physical instinctual style of living, to…

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Using Love as Healing Meditation

January 6, 2013

Love is the divine force that unites all as one. It is ultimately always love that heals, by returning us back to our source for wholeness. Try this exercise in self-healing with love: Since it is Love energy that actually heals, use your ability to imagine the experience of unbounded Love to elevate yourself to…

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Les Miserables: A Story of Love

January 6, 2013

If you haven’t seen Les Miserables, go see it in theatres now! Far from depressing, it shows the commanding power of love and forgiveness.  

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How To Offer Loving Support To Your Spouse or Partner

January 1, 2013

Many people have asked me how to know whether or not they are loving their spouse or partner in “healthy enough” ways. They wonder how they can best support their loved one on a daily basis, in the daily activity of their relationship. First of all, ask them. In a quiet moment, when you are talking…

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The Ways of Love: Qualities, Attributes, Characteristics

December 29, 2012

Love is….. Gentle. Not terse. More an intimate whisper that invokes intent listening and inspires responsive action, than a fierce wind that sends us scurrying for protection. Kind. Respectful of all. Wise. In wisdom, there is loving understanding…..a sense of patient compassion that comes from the realization that perfection lies in the whole beyond time, rather…

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Healing Meditation

December 29, 2012

Imagine Divine Love as a white stream of energy pervading the space around you. Breathe in this Love energy. See it enter the top of your head, the crown chakra, as you inhale. As you exhale, send Love energy through your breath deeply into your body. Allow your breath to carry Love to its holy…

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How Love Heals, Part III

December 16, 2012

When our body, mind or heart is broken, we seek healing. Healing is the process of integration, of joining together that which has been fragmented. A fractured bone mends. A scattered mind focuses. A heart finds wholeness. And the soul remembers oneness. All wounds are a tear in the fabric of Love, the field of synthesis…

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