This has been like a climb to the top of a very enlightening mountain, and now I am on my way back down, about to continue on my way, yet profoundly changed.
Letting Love In: How Compassion and Forgiveness Allow The Doors To Open Wide!
Lovin’ Life Now! Newsletter
Volume I, Issue 6:
Letting Love In: How Compassion and Forgiveness Allow The Doors To Open Wide!
This Issue is prepared especially for you!
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In this Issue:
1. Welcome!
2. Letting Love In: How Compassion and Forgiveness Allow The Doors To Open Wide! (Featured Article)
3. Announcements/Offers
4. About Lovin’ Life Now Weekly Newsletter
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1) Welcome to this issue of our Lovin’ Life Now! Weekly newsletter. A special hello to you if you are receiving this for the first time. Feel free to pass this on to anyone you think might be interested in it.
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2) Letting Love In: How Compassion and Forgiveness Allow The Doors To Open Wide! (Featured Article)
By Charlene M Brown
There are so many people complaining about finding the perfect mate that I’d bet if they all held hands and stretched themselves out, they would fit around the world several times!
The overwhelming majority of these folks are probably Western in their beliefs where complaining makes up a large part of our society. But most of them are probably also holding onto to past hurts and negative energy that they are sabotaging themselves right out of Love’s way!
Okay, okay, let’s slow this down a little bit and take it piece by piece!
At some point or another, we all hold onto some sort of bitterness and resentment for something someone did to us.
Perhaps it was the promotion we got glazed over for. Or maybe it was the insult to us or a loved one by some insensitive soul. Or the angry, hurtful words spewed in a terrible fight.
Whatever the situation, we have all been slighted some time in our lives.
And I bet you can recall very vividly the emotions you felt at the time, as if you are reliving it every time you think about it.
Well guess what!? You ARE! And every time you think about it, you are sending that signal out to the Universe saying, “Yes, I want more of this hurt and pain and craziness.”
Every time you think about something, you make it stronger and pull it toward you more forcefully.
So if all you are pulling in revolves around craziness, bitterness, and resentment, what do you think you are going to get time and time again?
We are all our own self-fulfilling prophecies!
With negative feelings and emotions taking up so much space, where do you suppose there is room for Love!?
There is not. Or perhaps very little.
Ahhhh. No wonder it’s so hard to love then.
Who is the bitterest person you know? What are they so bitter about? I’ll bet somebody “wronged” them along the way, whether an ambiguous “They”, or a very specific person or incident. And they are holding onto that sense of wrongdoing in their hearts!
I know about bitterness!
And have the biting sarcasm to go with it.
It’s a funny thing about emotions, when we hold the negative ones in our hearts, there are only but so many that will fit, usually only enough room for 1 or 2. But when we hold positive and useful emotions in our heart, there seems to be a limitless amount of space for more positive emotions.
Like attracts Like!
When fear and bitterness and anger and negativity are in our hearts, there is no room for anything else, including Love.
In order to let Love in we have to let go of all those other things that are no longer serving us. I know Sheila may have cut in front of you in the second grade, or your big sister may have been the shining picture of perfection that everyone always noticed, or you really deserved that promotion, but where is this bitterness about it getting you!?
We have to stop replaying all the little and big hurts we have ever experienced in our lives and move on.
We have to find forgiveness, both for the other person, and more importantly for OURSELVES!
We have to reclaim the positive side of life.
Until and unless we release all these negative things in our hearts (not to mention the literal, physical mayhem it can cause to our bodies!), we will never be able to let the positive back in.
“When the door of happiness closes, another opens. But often times we look so long at the closed door that we don’t see the one which has been opened for us.” ~Unknown
Instead of focusing on the one that closed, go look for the next one that is open!
In order to “Let LOVE In”, you have to let anger and resentment and bitterness out. Let them go! Find the space in your heart for forgiveness! Only then, will the seed of Love begin to be cultivated into the great flowering Tree of Life!
A Big HUG to You!
~Charli B.
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