Love…
I think one of the biggest misconceptions about being human is that love is hard to get.
Whereas really, what we are saying is that love is hard to feel.
The latter being true for many of us at times, and the first being a possible untruth. Let’s play with the idea for a moment that love is the foundation on which we are built, a state in which we arise, the true nature of our being.
We’ve misconstrued love to be this thing that we have to get to feel it, or that an object outside of ourselves makes us feel it.
Do you remember, however, when you were a child, loving everything? Your dog, playing, your parents - even if they were a bit rubbish, you loved THEM. You loved your bedroom, the field in which you ran around, the little insect stuck to your stick that you wanted to take home, you loved your teddy, your friend … the list goes on.
Then one day you felt the pain of loving so much and someone rejected it, or left, or someone couldn’t accept it, or they hurt you. So your little being began to recede to keep yourself safe from the pain of rejection and hurt.
They didn’t even realise. They may have just been busy, stressed, struggling themselves, or maybe their pain hurt you.
Some of us may have experienced this a little, some of us time and time again, so all that energy, all that loving energy, stays locked in like a dam on a river.
Until one day, a little crack appears. Your own child’s face melts your heart, or your pet snuggles up and continues to offer you unconditional love, or a sunrise takes your breath away.
Do they give it to you?
Or did the little crack let just a little bit of that light out and some back in?
You felt it.
You felt your love that’s been there all along, ready to give…..
In Somatic Sensing we do this kind of thing.
Together, we’re exploring moments in time when these blocks may have formed.
Not to resurrect the pain and keep it.
But to remove the blocks so we can move on…
So the heart, little by little, begins to open back up.
Then life becomes about feeling and offering the love we have in abundance, and less about getting it.