There are things in life that make it easy to feel love such as receiving gifts, baby animals when they are being all cute, babies when they smile and giggle, and when friends and family show up when we most need them.
However, there are things in life that make it challenging to feel love like when others say or do mean things, during an argument, and even the daily tasks in life.
No matter what though choosing to feel love in any situation is always a choice.
Our thoughts create our feelings not people, things, nor circumstances.
And what we choose to think and then ultimately feel is always in our power.
That being said a lot of us tend to give our power away and let the people, things, and circumstance be in control of our emotional life.
So why would we choose love even when it's not easy? One of my teachers explains it best when she says we choose love for ourselves not for anyone or anything else.
Love is a sensation in our body, it's something that we feel.
Poor behaviors and crappy circumstances don't dictate our emotional life, we do.
Others may not always make the best choices, but we can.
We can choose love because it feels better and that is what we are really after anyways.
So here's how we can choose love when it's not easy:
However, there are things in life that make it challenging to feel love like when others say or do mean things, during an argument, and even the daily tasks in life.
No matter what though choosing to feel love in any situation is always a choice.
Our thoughts create our feelings not people, things, nor circumstances.
And what we choose to think and then ultimately feel is always in our power.
That being said a lot of us tend to give our power away and let the people, things, and circumstance be in control of our emotional life.
So why would we choose love even when it's not easy? One of my teachers explains it best when she says we choose love for ourselves not for anyone or anything else.
Love is a sensation in our body, it's something that we feel.
Poor behaviors and crappy circumstances don't dictate our emotional life, we do.
Others may not always make the best choices, but we can.
We can choose love because it feels better and that is what we are really after anyways.
So here's how we can choose love when it's not easy:
- Make the decision and commit.
Do you want to have the power over your emotional life or do you want to give it away? Make a commitment to yourself that you are going to stay in your power. - Start your day with a reminder.
Wake up and choose that day that you are going to feel love no matter what. - Declare it.
Create a power thought that you say throughout your day to keep yourself focused.
Such as I am powerful and loving.
I choose to feel love in every way. - Practice it daily.
Deliberately take a few minutes a day and focus on something you love and feel it in your body - Be kind to yourself.
It takes practice to choose love and so when you don't choose love in the moment no big deal just be aware of it.
And even if you don't choose love in the red-hot moment you can still choose it in the very next moment or even the moments after that. - Release the seriousness of it.
We can take life way too seriously.
Life is meant to be a fun and fabulous adventure that's why we're choosing love in the first place to make this ride an incredible one.