I don’t have problems with complex processes. Complex means multifaceted and differentiated. Complex does not necessarily mean, that something is complicated. Nevertheless I love to make things as easy as possible and make a point. Here is one of them:
The main goal of any spiritual path is simply Love!
Let´s have a look at the 3 primary obstacles on the path of Love.
These obstacles are very easy to comprehend, but we overlook them sometimes and lose ourselves in philosophical discussions instead.
1. Your overstimulated nervous system
It´s no secret. We live in times of information overflow. News, facts and emotions are flooding our consciousness, and they need to digest them - like any other food we swallow.
Our brain and nervous system are bombarded by information and it´s their job to filter them. Our cells and our DNA provide the frame for this filtration process. What is important for us and what’s not, is decided by these filters.
If we don’t know them, then they will do their job automatically and on an unconscious level.
The primary function of the nervous system is to provide us a feeling of safety. This very basic level of security grants our survival.
Our inner innocence/inner child is always struggling to regain this safety.
If we react out of old patterns and filters, this path often becomes destructive. The result of this, is something that is commonly called an „Ego“. Ego is just another word for „overstimulated nervous system“.
What’s the solution for this problem?
The first step is very simple (and therefore often disregarded):
Relax your body!
Breathing deeply into your belly - breaking the hectic breath pattern of the overstimulated nervous system - brings back the basic safety you inner child longs for. Without this feeling of safety, you cannot love.
Relaxation is the basis and the first step on any spiritual path.
2. Your distracted attention/consciousness
The second obstacle on the path to Love - directly resulting out of the overstimulated nervous system - is your distracted attention and consciousness, that tries to grab a hold in the world.
Sometimes it seems, as if we can find something solid to hold on to in philosophical, religious or spiritual concepts, teachings, books, groups, methods, relationships, work, alcohol, drugs - just to realize later, that it didn’t work out.
The innocent inner child tries to find safety through many things, just to bring order into the chaos and in doing so, distracts our attention and consciousness.
Since we decided to walk the path of Love, the solution here is also very simple: Make your heart the central focus in your life!
For our mind, this sounds too easy to be true. All these teachers and methods on the psycho-spiritual market teach endless techniques on mindfulness and „the power of now“, and the more you listen to all these different teachings, the more your nervous system gets overstimulated again. Once you think, that you have found „the final truth“, tomorrow it´s a different one….
It is so simple! You become, where you direct your attention.
If you direct your attention on your heart, you become Love.
3. The way you are talking to yourself
The third obstacle on the path to/of Love is the way you talk to yourself.
What does the inner voice in your head tell you?
The more „advanced“ we are on our spiritual path and the more insights and concepts we accumulate, the easier we oversee this simple and basic happening.
Another way of asking this is: How do you speak with your heart_your innocence_your inner child?
All these sentences have a direct influence on your nervous system too.
They are also information, that has to be filtered and digested.
What do you feed yourself?
Here again, the solution is simple and the important point is to really do it!
Just say these 3 magic words - over your whole day - as often as you can:
„I love you“
It´s as simple as that. It´s free and you can start right now!
In case you are wondering, why you don’t feel Love when you say these words to yourself: You are doing it right! Don’t worry! Because:
Love is not a feeling!
Yes, there is also a feeling that is called „Love“, but this is just a romantic feeling produced by hormones and neurotransmitters in your body.
That’s not the Love we are speaking about here - not at all….
The Love we are speaking about is simply the endless and infinite space of „no attachment - no aversion“ to whatever arises. Letting arise whatever wants to arise - letting subside, whatever wants to subside.
That leaves us with the final question:
Are you ready to walk the path of Love?
Definitely Sweetheart! Definitely. I love how you put this;-
I love this first step and have started practising relaxation;-
Wow this is amazing: so if I direct my attention on my heart, I become LOVE. Wow;-
Yesssssssssssssssssss! I am ready to work the path of love. I love the closing of the content the most. I read every word. Wowwww! Great content, very informative too. Keep steeming Dear;-
Ha! Thank you for your lovely and innocent comment full of excitement! ❤️
Drink it in.... Ahhh..... Blessings!
Haha! You are welcome Dearie! Smiles. You my dear are a sweetheart.
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I have been meditating on similar concept recently. I adhere to "The Power of Now." But as you stated, I use the now to centre my being because all change must come from within. And love of self is the greatest motivator of change. I also feel that we participate in creation when we bring order to chaos. We must let the chaos exist as the raw materials we will use to build the now in which we wish to live.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
There is a wonderful deep wisdom in your words. Thanks for sharing! ❤️
Wonderully written and structured! Yes, the path of Love is a splendid path but it incorporates us to first undo our inner conditioning, a thing which is hard to accomplish but with each step it becomes easier and our physical bosy loses its density on the way. This density causes the weight we carry and we are more prone to dis-ease. Especially when our entire Light is being remodelled the body isn't used to it. But this too shall pass! :) thank you for this loving post!
Thank you for your compliments and your lovely comment!
Being on this path now for more than 25 years (I startet very early 😉), I can say, that there are certain phases, where thing were true in a previous phase, suddenly become the opposite in the next. Yes, it was important to see, that what I am is beyond body and form and realize myself as being pure light (and even beyond that). Becoming detached from body, form and even the illusion of beingness. The phase I seem to be in at the moment, is the return to the body - bringing the Light & Love that I am back into the cell - and with this integrating the 5th dimension with the 3rd. That´s why shadow work has become important again, but on a new level - I will write about it soon... So yes, the restructuring of the physical body from carbon based to crystalline is something that is worth mentioning, but most of this information will be way over the head for most people.... The good thing is, that all the way, and doens´t matter in which phase you are on your spiritual path, and how truth shows itself on these different levels, Love is the only thing, that is true on every level of your development and something like the cosmic constant. ❤️
I love your wording "cosmic constant"! :)
Yes, you are absolutely right. As we awaken we start sorting out anything that is not truly ours. External Truth is thrown out of our unique Soul Light mixture so that room for our own Light's Truth comes forth until we see that "the only Truth lies within oneself", all of which of course taking place within the one and only Truth of All is Love and and all is One. The articles I'll release here will all deal with this area. By the way, "Atmos" really sounds great, I resonate strongly with this name!
Thank you for your amazingly clear post. I have a question: do you think that for humanity living in previous centuries was easier to find the path of love? They didn't get so much distraction as we do.
Thank you for your kind words!
Well, the distractions may have been not the same as we face nowadays, but on different levels. Just think about health issues alone. People faced imminent death with even the most minor thread to their health (compared to now) - this is quite some stress, right? In general, there were many things distracting people from the path of Love, because they had no safety on the most basic levels. Now as (most of us) have safe homes, something to eat and a good medical system behind us, we invented other distractions. These are not only from the media, but also on a psychological and emotional level. Even spirituality has become a factor to overstimulate our nervous system. When we are (relatively) safe on the 3rd dimensional plane, we start to focus on 4th dimensional things and meet energetic information, that distracts us from the path of Love. Also the never ending quest for more wisdom and enlightenment adds more inputs, that our nervous system and inner child have to digest. So it seems, as if it´s always as easy or difficult as we make it (for ourselves and for the society we live in). In the end, it´s a question where you put your attention on and if this is providing you with peace and love or just more information that will need time to integrate.
May you blessed! Much Love! ❤️
And I too shall follow
In my opinion we all are walking on the path of love but, due to overthinking process some walked out of that path and living in the darkness. In my opinion real love is selfless love and we have to understand that with disturbed mind we will not able to strengthen any kind relationship so, we have to be calm and need to do proper exercises to maintain an proper mental and physical balance and balance is really important in life to control any situations. Thanks for sharing this post with us.
Stay Blessed.
Thank you for sharing your point of view.
In my experience, there is no such thing as selfless love, because true love always begins with self and is the self. Only when this is realized, this love can flow over - but without any volition, and just because you have become so full of love, that the overflowing is happening gracefully and naturally. So the futile attempts of people to start the other way round and begin with others first, leads to a circle of disappointment, because you can´t fill other peoples emptiness, when you believe to be empty yourself.
So you see... it´s somehow all different. Yes, I agree, that practices of balancing mind and body are very important, although it depends on each person, how they look like. Thank you for sharing your wisdom! ❤️
Welcome and it's good to have diversified thoughts because that's the real wisdom. Thanks for the appreciation. 🙂
Stay Blessed.
Very nice look
Thank you! ❤️
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