(Wk 9) Love Part 2 Of 5 - Unleash Your Peace

Why do we treat love differently than other emotions?

On our second day discussing the topic of Love, we dive a bit deeper into what love actually is by answering the question: “If love is an emotion, why do we treat it different than any other emotion?” We highlight the confusing way in which we talk about and express love, and discuss why it feels so good when we are actually experiencing its powerful vibration.

Transcript

Hello and welcome back to Unleash Your Peace.

My name is Ali Shoja.

I am your host.

I'm a positive mindset coach,

A personal transformation expert.

I'm a deliberate creator and I am your peace trainer.

And this podcast over here,

Unleash Your Peace,

Is your peace training because every single week we dive into a different aspect of the internal world.

We do that over five consecutive episodes released Monday through Friday.

The episodes are short,

Under 10 minutes each,

Because I want you to have something uplifting and inspiring,

Thought-provoking to listen to first thing in the morning.

Why is it so important to give yourself these moments of introspection?

And that is because when we look inward,

When we turn this lens into ourselves,

We start shedding all of this excess weight that we carry,

All this unwanted pain.

And we start finding underneath all of that lasting internal peace and we live our best lives yet.

When we live from this place of joy and peace and connectedness to our inner being,

To that infinite potential part of us,

That non-physical part of us that holds all of our potential,

We don't just incrementally improve the quality of our lives,

We actually exponentially innovate every aspect of our experiences on this physical plane.

That's when we become whole,

That's when we tap into our true power and we become the creators that we have come here on this planet to be.

And not only that,

We also become uplifters in our families and our communities and that trickles out into the world.

And next thing you know,

We level up as a society,

As a human race.

And that is my wish for you and for all of us.

Now this week we are talking about a really big topic,

Another big topic I should say.

Every week we have really big topics,

But this one is at the core of our beingness.

It is what we are made of and that is the topic of love.

Love that is essentially the substance of your inner being,

That infinite intelligence,

That consciousness that observed you into existence is made entirely of love.

It is what we come from and it is what we return to when we are no longer in these physical bodies.

Now this topic is so incredibly important.

We'll try to talk about as many of the highlights as we possibly can in these five days.

Yesterday we simply introduced love and what it is.

I talked about a study that was done in the 40s on infants that on a spiritual level for me validates two very important points.

One,

That we are made of love and two,

That we do need each other in order to express and receive this love.

So we are social creatures for a reason.

Now today I want to dive a little bit deeper into that question,

What is love?

A lot of people think love is an emotion just like any other emotion that we have and is it an emotion just like any other emotion that we have?

And if it is an emotion,

Why do we treat love differently than any other emotion?

Let me demonstrate what I mean.

If love is an emotion,

It must be one of the most misunderstood emotions that we have in our arsenal because what we see a lot,

We see so much misinformation about what love actually is when we look around.

The vibration of love we're all familiar with.

We know what it feels like when we are in love,

When we experience that complete lightheartedness where nothing can go wrong,

Where everything makes sense,

Where everything is right exactly where it needs to be,

Exactly when it needs to be and exactly how it needs to be.

There's a sense of just complete perfection when we are in a place of love,

When we are experiencing this profoundly high vibration emotion of love,

Everything is beautiful.

The song of the birds is more beautiful.

The color on the trees is more beautiful.

We just take a deep breath and it fills our lungs like it never has before.

That is the vibration of love.

It feels so incredibly magical that it can make us lightheaded and some people say even stupid.

Because we dive into whatever it is we're doing when we are in that state of love,

We literally cannot see something wrong happening.

Wrongness does not exist when we are in this state.

Why then do we tell people that we love them when we don't experience those things,

When we are not in a place of love?

We see parents berating their children,

Yelling at their children,

Really frustrated and clearly exhibiting anger,

Frustration,

Upset,

Emotions that are very far away from that vibration of love and yet they say things like,

Don't you know I love you.

I'm doing this because I love you.

Now can you imagine someone telling someone in that state of anger and frustration,

Don't you know I am happy right now?

Don't you know I'm doing this because I'm experiencing joy and satisfaction?

It doesn't even make sense.

At the same token,

If you are hugging someone and kissing them and you have this big giant grin on your face,

You don't turn around and say,

Don't you know I'm really angry with you right now?

Don't you know I'm doing this because I'm very upset?

We don't do those things because it doesn't make sense.

Usually when we talk about our emotions,

They link up with what we are actually experiencing in that moment except when we talk about love.

With love,

We experience a whole spectrum of emotions and we somehow call it love.

We justify bad behavior by calling it love.

We justify controlling others by calling it love.

We justify things like jealousy and cheating on someone,

Being spiteful and hurtful by calling it love and that creates a lot of confusion for all of us.

If an alien race was observing us and they were trying to understand what love is,

They would be so incredibly confused by our behavior and our cavalier use of the word love.

I think that there's a deeper reason why we treat love differently than other emotions because I think innately,

Instinctively,

We know that love is not yet another emotion.

We know that it is something greater,

Something a little bit more all-encompassing than a simple emotion of the moment because we understand that emotions are fleeting.

Anger is fleeting.

It's here one moment and literally one minute later that anger can be turned into frustration.

It can be turned into depression.

It can be turned into hopefulness.

Depending on how we're looking at a situation,

The emotion can change and it can shift and it is so incredibly fleeting,

Literally from one second to the next.

However,

I think we instinctively understand that there's nothing fleeting about love.

Love has a permanence to it that we have a hard time expressing simply because we have no control over our emotional states of being.

We are so much under the control of our emotions,

Under the control of our thoughts.

Our thoughts are literally living us.

They're thinking us rather than we thinking our thoughts.

Our emotions are feeling us rather than we feeling our emotions and therefore we have so little control over what is actually happening inside of our heads and inside of our bodies that we don't know how to remain in that place of permanent love that I think instinctively we understand is our natural state of being.

And this brings me to the answer of this really big question,

What is love?

And to answer it really,

We need to ask another question,

Why does love feel so good?

And I think the reason love feels so good is because it is the natural state for us to be in.

The greater grander part of us,

That inner being that we've been talking about so much in these nine weeks together is entirely made of love.

So then it makes sense that when we rendezvous with this inner being,

It feels so incredibly wonderful.

It feels amazing.

And when we are in that place of love,

The reason everything feels possible and nothing feels impossible,

The reason wrongdoing does not exist or even the possibility of a wrongdoing does not exist is not because we have lost our minds and we are stupid.

Well,

Actually we have lost our minds.

We have dropped into our heart instead of the mind,

But it is not a bad thing.

It simply means that we are now in complete alignment with our inner being.

Now at the same token with that,

Have you noticed how every time you are in love,

Things just work out for you?

Things come into your existence,

Into the presence of your life that you have wanted for a very long time and it happens quite naturally.

And that is because you are in that state of love,

Co-creating completely with your inner being,

You're receiving inspiration,

You look and feel more confident,

You're more charismatic,

You are more centered,

You're more grounded and all of these things are byproducts of experiencing love because all of these things are byproducts of being in alignment with the greater part of yourself,

With that infinite potential part of yourself.

Now today I will leave you simply with this.

That is a lot to ponder and think about and hopefully to be inspired by.

And in the meantime,

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Thank you for all of your beautiful messages and until tomorrow when we come back,

I wish you a peaceful day.

Reviews

Thank you Ellie, insightful as always 💜x