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Love – The Ultimate Medicine by Lucinda from Whispering Earth
Your task is not to seek for love, but to seek and destroy within yourself all the barriers you have built against it. ~Rumi
The more experience I have of seeing people in the herbal clinic, and of life in general, the more I see how endemic a lack of love and nurturing is in our society. This can manifest in so many ways, from the obvious, like not nourishing our relationships and communities, to the subtle, such as pushing ourselves too hard in the need to attain something or ‘treating ourselves’ with foods and drinks that are actually damaging to our health. So often even in the act of rewarding ourselves, our actions are destructive rather than loving.
The name of this wonderful blog is ‘Taking Time’ so I thought I would like to share with you here how an act of taking time can be an act of great love. Taking time to sit together, to listen to others and to ourselves, to create nourishing meals or to tell someone you love them are all so important. Above all these things though, taking the time to simply be can be the truest act of love because in a restful state of being we are naturally ourselves and therefore naturally loving.
There are many ways we can define love, perhaps more than any other word, and as a result it’s frequently misrepresented. We often think love requires some kind of action or effort, (“Let me show you I love you”) and in this way we turn love in to a state of doing rather than a state of being. We can look at it another way though, one in which love is our most natural state which wells up freely when we are open and relaxed. The effort occurs in keeping love out. Huge amounts of our energy are spent in shutting down and constricting ourselves because we believe we are somehow separate from love and therefore have to do something to ‘get’ it. This is the origin of all our struggle and consequently many of the illnesses we suffer from as subtle fears, stresses and tensions create restricted blood flow, adrenal exhaustion, anxiety, depression, heart problems and so many other issues.
In simply allowing ourselves to be, love will show itself as the truth of our own hearts. Even in the space of self-doubt, self-questioning, or self-loathing, we cannot be other than that.
When all the knots of the heart are unloosened, then even here in this human birth, the mortal becomes immortal. This is the whole teaching of the Scriptures. ~The Upanishads
The more experience I have of seeing people in the herbal clinic, and of life in general, the more I see how endemic a lack of love and nurturing is in our society. This can manifest in so many ways, from the obvious, like not nourishing our relationships and communities, to the subtle, such as pushing ourselves too hard in the need to attain something or ‘treating ourselves’ with foods and drinks that are actually damaging to our health. So often even in the act of rewarding ourselves, our actions are destructive rather than loving.
The name of this wonderful blog is ‘Taking Time’ so I thought I would like to share with you here how an act of taking time can be an act of great love. Taking time to sit together, to listen to others and to ourselves, to create nourishing meals or to tell someone you love them are all so important. Above all these things though, taking the time to simply be can be the truest act of love because in a restful state of being we are naturally ourselves and therefore naturally loving.
There are many ways we can define love, perhaps more than any other word, and as a result it’s frequently misrepresented. We often think love requires some kind of action or effort, (“Let me show you I love you”) and in this way we turn love in to a state of doing rather than a state of being. We can look at it another way though, one in which love is our most natural state which wells up freely when we are open and relaxed. The effort occurs in keeping love out. Huge amounts of our energy are spent in shutting down and constricting ourselves because we believe we are somehow separate from love and therefore have to do something to ‘get’ it. This is the origin of all our struggle and consequently many of the illnesses we suffer from as subtle fears, stresses and tensions create restricted blood flow, adrenal exhaustion, anxiety, depression, heart problems and so many other issues.
In simply allowing ourselves to be, love will show itself as the truth of our own hearts. Even in the space of self-doubt, self-questioning, or self-loathing, we cannot be other than that.
When all the knots of the heart are unloosened, then even here in this human birth, the mortal becomes immortal. This is the whole teaching of the Scriptures. ~The Upanishads
Lucinda is a herbalist and nature lover who lives amongst the South Downs with her husband, cats and chickens. She shares her recipes, photos, musings and love of plants in her blog Whispering Earth.
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