This will be a short exploration of the power of giving and receiving with Love. Stopping the flow has repercussions, no matter the situation or those involved. Hoarding is a recipe for stagnation and a strong interruption of the giving universe. By holding on we do not have room to receive anything of like or higher vibration. Need I say much more?

Love is the vehicle that fuels and lubricates the flow. On the cellular level it is the primary resource for nurturing that cell into action. To this end Love is not selective. It is, rather, a constant wash of trust, faith, and knowing…effective to the degree that one opens to receive it and then pass it on, by bringing it through first.

Eyes and a heart of Love cannot be faked energetically. You may be an effective love poser who can fool the crowd, but, like the fairy tale Emperor’s New Clothes, you cannot fool the aware one, the open one, the knowing one…the child. It is in the eyes, on the face, and felt all around when you fake it with love. Even in this course on Living As If, you will notice, I have not encouraged one to fake loving another, though that may be a useful tactic to jump start one’s awareness into action. Authenticity is a beacon, radiating life to all, even the most unawake.

So, love first. Take a leap of faith  and give your best love to yourself first. Let that be the spark to activate your own inner supply, dormant as it may be. The Cosmos is showering love constantly. There is no shortage to that resource. Too many forget to open their hands and heart and eyes, as they are busy protecting themselves from the imagined lack.

Something must be done to show good faith. For that one step is all that activates the conscious flow. Then it becomes a perpetual motion machine that will not be turned off. Give to receive. Receive to give. Use what you need, that’s all. We each can be sustained by far less that we think we need. Fear inspires, even precipitates holding on. That holding on can become fear based hoarding in a very short time. Once it sweeps in then one easily loses sight of their own big picture, their magnificence, their place in the flow of all life.

Consider that love is the essence of your design. It is not some morphed substance diminished by all of your broken hearted moments. It is not the losses or the gains. It is the substance by which we are designed. Embracing, engaging , and being it in all moments blossoms your form to express the fullness of you. No matter what has happened to you in this or any other incarnation your love or lovability does not diminish in any way….well, unless you make it so by refusing to let love in because you do not want to be “hurt again”…please?! Clear the debris smothering your heart and love quotient and let it sprout to deliver to you the best of you so that you can shower people with Love.  This is the recipe for delight.

Give Love…no matter what. Start with the places where you do not give it…those mundane places that don’t seem like a big deal (driver close behind you, the annoying telemarketer, the loud music down the hall, the person who did not call back soon enough, the judgment you give yourself in the mirror, the flaw seeking we do so well, the next door neighbor whose dog just barks too damn much…these moments of living are the juice places because you hardly even know you are reacting and spewing lower frequency energy that settles right into your own cells and tissues first.

Give Love without any hope of return. Refrain from manipulation to get your appreciations or witnessing or to affirm your own loveability. Just give it out in gobs and gobs. Make those around you suffer under the storm of your open hearted flood of wonderfulness blessing them through you. Yes, just be love, see love, do love.

And then see what comes of it. Notice the nuances of life dropping little presents unaware to you in the beginning. Look for how things come and flow much more easily. Pay attention to spontaneous looks and eye contact and things just working out. Watch for good health and surprises that make you smile. Notice how the meal just tastes better, or the music sounds much more beautiful, or the sunset was more colorful than you can remember seeing.

Life in response can be subtle, especially when it is with a “spiritual component”. It makes you work for that awareness because you need to exercise those muscles. It prepares you for more so that you will notice more easily. And when that noticing become a knowing then the circle is free to flow fully and freely. Give love and receive love and give love and receive love….as it was designed to be.

Love will deliver itself to, through, and from you as you allow…guaranteed. Next thing you know the flow is not an issue, for the infusion of Love will dismantle any debris posing as resistance and open the warm receptive arms of your own being.