Waking Up to What Love Could Really Be

If we can just begin to see what’s stopping us.

Photo by Mathew Schwartz on Unsplash

Note: much of this piece is directly quoted from the book, Conscious Love.

Credit to the original authors, Gay & Kathryn Hendricks cited below.

Love is a powerful force.

But if we do not know how to handle its power, we slip very quickly into its powerfully painful distortions, such as conflict and co-dependence.

But know this:

It is resistance to love that causes the problems.

There is nothing wrong with love.

Love is a force that focuses its light on the deepest shadowy parts of ourselves.

It brings to the surface the parts of ourselves that we most desperately try to keep hidden.

When these parts of ourselves emerge, we often retreat, blaming love and those who have loved us.

For most of us, relationships are a struggle.

We each have a strong inner urge toward conscious loving: toward love relationships that are free of mistrust, disharmony, and unspoken words.

We want our relationships to be springboards to higher consciousness and enhanced…