The Power of Expansive Love

The Power of Expansive Love

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I’ve been processing a lot lately and been doing a lot of healing and reflection. Through that reflection and healing I have found a calling from my soul. A calling to shine and show up unafraid. Better yet, I have learned that showing up unafraid is showing up with LOVE. Not just romantic love or platonic love or love for appreciation or affirmation, but love for love’s sake. Love from the deepest, darkest depths of my soul radiating out with everything I do to set the world on fire. 

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As someone who has never experienced romantic love I have always been confused by love. It was intangible to me. It was something outside of me, something I wasn’t capable of having or knowing what it was. Part of me was scared of love, it required you to be open and vulnerable with someone, especially when I wasn’t even able to be open and vulnerable with myself at the time. I lived in fear. Because when you live in fear you can’t know love. But when you start to live from Love, your whole world changes. 

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Love and living with and from love will transform your life. I have written before about how to create a life you desire, but you can’t do any of that if you don’t approach life with love. You need to approach life with softness and appreciation. Love isn’t some magical force that allows us to be seen, appreciated, and accepted. Many of us think that is what love is, but how many of us have abandoned ourselves to be seen, appreciated, and accepted. We receive love but it is for a mask that we put on to live that life. It was a mask we put on in fear and in search of belonging, and as I talked about in my post about belonging, we need to belong to ourselves before we can belong to others. 

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When we believe in love and show love in everything we do, that love comes back to us in our world. The love we think and create will become reflected in our world. Just how we live a life of fear and disdain our life will become a reflection of that. When we fully pour ourselves into something with confidence, conviction, and love the end product is a life that we can love. The end product is that the people around us will radiate with light and love. 

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Additionally, our nervous system will respond positively to this love and life of radiance. When our nervous system is in rest or digest mode that is when we are living in love. We are fully present, we are aware, and we can show up best for those around us. On the other hand when we are in fight or flight mode we are acting in fear. We are overstimulated and become hyper aroused by our environment and surroundings. We became unsafe and unable to react and respond to love. It’s why so many of us struggle with love, because love feels uncomfortable and foreign compared to the life we have created. Even though it is safe, it is unfamiliar and our logical brain does not like dealing with something that is unfamiliar. But the more time we spend in love and safety and surrounded by people that make the world brighter the more comfortable we get and the more we want to gravitate to those situations and people. 

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We need to love loudly and proudly. We need to live with radiating and expansive love from within to set the world on fire and to authentically shine our light. Because when we do that we give others the permission to do the same and we in turn create a more beautiful world. 

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