Thank you for joining me,
My friend.
It's good to have you with me again.
And if it's your first time with one of my meditations,
I hope you enjoy it and that it provides some value for you.
This meditation is about being in love.
And as you can probably guess,
It's not necessarily about being in love in a romantic way with someone else.
This meditation is about existing,
Living your life steeped in love,
Walking through your day in the midst of love,
And expressing yourself as your own inner fulfillment of love.
After going through many,
Many years,
Decades of suffering in relationships,
Getting married and divorced twice,
And struggling with loneliness,
It began to dawn on me,
Through a lot of my own hard inner work,
And spending years being alone,
Trying to wrestle with the issue of romantic relationship,
It started to dawn on me that it was more important to cultivate love itself within my own heart than it was necessarily to find someone who was going to love me.
And once I started doing that,
Once I started cultivating that love for life,
For my own self,
For this wonderful journey that we're all on,
I started to feel a profound sense of openness,
A lack of worry or desperation over being in relationship,
And I started to calm all of that discouragement and intense wishing and desire for someone to be with.
I started to calm all of that down,
Because I became comfortable within my own self.
There's a popular saying going around the last few years,
To be comfortable in your own skin,
And I had become,
After many years of working on this,
I had become comfortable being alone.
And of course,
In my life,
What that led to was to meet a wonderful woman and to fall in love again at the age of 60 and get married,
And now creating a life together that we dearly love,
And loving each other,
And holding our own hearts for ourselves in love as well.
So let's move into the meditation,
The meditation on being in love.
And I'll be asking you to imagine and visualize yourself within a bubble,
A sphere of love,
A fog of love,
However you want to imagine it,
And then to see what it's like for you to actually feel the experience of being inside of love,
Being in love.
So here we go.
Take a deep breath and relax,
And allow yourself to move into your center,
That place within that's calm and still,
Where all good things in your heart,
In your mind,
And your gut come from.
Take another deep breath and relax your thoughts.
As you exhale,
Calm your emotions and bring yourself into that center.
And as you find your center,
Begin to imagine yourself moving through your day.
Imagine yourself moving through your day,
And then picture in your mind's eye a beautiful sphere of love around you.
And feel that you are actually inside of the sphere of love.
It radiates love and expresses your love,
Your love for life,
Your love for yourself,
Your love for the people in your life who you care about deeply,
The things that you're passionate about,
Your work,
The artistry of your life,
Your passions and hobbies.
Feel that sphere energized with all of this love for life,
All these aspects of life that you love so much.
And if you have any trouble with imagining,
Then simply pretend that you can imagine,
And that'll be the same thing.
So picture yourself connecting with other people throughout your day with a sphere of love surrounding you,
Holding you,
Embellishing your experience with love,
And allowing you to express the richest,
Thickest love from your own heart that helps to energize this ball of love,
This sphere of love around you even more.
So that from your own heart,
This sphere of love grows in its intensity as your day goes on.
Feel the love.
Allow yourself to actually be this love,
This love for life,
This love for your own life,
This love and acceptance for yourself,
For who you are,
Simply being you.
Sit in this love in your imagining.
Imagine yourself sitting down in a chair or in a beautiful place in nature with this love sphere around you,
And that you're connecting with the setting that you're in,
Whether it's a nature scene or your home or your workplace.
You're connecting with the setting through the sphere of love,
So everything that you see and hear and touch,
Smell and taste,
All of it is experienced through this sphere of love.
And the love touches everything that you experience,
And you touch everything that you experience through this love.
And perhaps you do have a relationship,
Someone who's very important to you.
And just imagine going to them and engaging with them in your own imagination,
Being in love,
In this love,
Connecting with them through this love and by this love.
Imagine this sphere of love around you,
Reaching out and encompassing this person that you're in relationship with.
So you bring them into your sphere of love and hold them and energize the sphere of love from your own heart even more,
So that this person is totally engaged in your sphere of love.
See their eyes brighten,
Their smile get really big,
And how much they love being loved by you.
This sphere of love is powerful.
It expresses the love of who you are as a person.
And all you have to do when you want more love in your life or more love in your relationships or to experience your love for life in a deeper and richer way.
All you have to do is imagine the sphere of love.
You can simply close your eyes and feel it and see it in your imagination around you and have it be imbued with the love from your own heart so that your heart becomes a love generator for this sphere.
And you will feel more love.
You'll experience more love and you'll experience being in love right there within it.
Hold this feeling for just one more moment and how great it feels to be in love in this way.
And then let it go.
And begin to move out of the meditation,
Remembering that you're going to always come back and reimagine this love,
This great sphere of love around you whenever you feel the need for more love in your life.
So come back out of the meditation now.
Come back into the room that you're in,
Back into your body,
Back into this time.
And when you're ready,
Open your eyes.
