The Power Of Love

A heart-expanding practice to help you increase your self-love and tap into the power of your true nature. This warm and inviting practice will help strengthen your inner light so that you can share your love more openly and authentically. Through gentle guidance and words of encouragement, you will learn how to transform yourself and others.

In the beginning, Lou shares the inspiration for the practice.

Transcript

Hello and welcome.

My name is Lou Redmond and I am so grateful that you are here.

For today's practice,

The inspiration is from an event that I went to recently.

I went to a fundraiser event for Marianne Williamson and for those of you that name might ring a bell,

She was a,

She is a spiritual teacher and was for many years speaking mainly on this book called The Course in Miracles.

Currently she's actually running for the presidency of the United States and she was doing a little talk at this event and she was talking about how she has these,

She has these ideas to harness the power of love and to wage peace and to start this Department of Peace and the backlash that she is getting is that people think that that is so naive,

Right?

So naive to think that love can actually do something,

So naive to think that peace can actually do something and I'm not sure if it's a recurrent or an effect I should say of the 60s here in America of this kind of peace love passive sort of way that it seemed like it was back then.

I don't know,

I'm only speaking from what I see not being in that era but and she would talk about how that the power of love can transform and I've so seen that if you look at someone who hates themselves and if you get that person to shift to loving themselves I cannot think of a more transformational experience than what that effect will be and Marianne says that the same principles that cause one person to transform is what can cause a collective to transform.

So with that I was inspired to do a really good self loving practice to work on continually coming more into our place of self love and to also hopefully send that out to everyone in our world so that we are the ripple effect we transform ourselves so that our energy and our being will transform others.

So go ahead and find your groundedness find your comfortable seat if you need to take any movements please do so and then allow your body to settle in to its space allow the heaviness of the weight of your body to sink down and allow the lightness the expansiveness of your your spirit to rise up and you may take that as your actual spirit you may take that literally or you just might take that as your energy in your body the spirit of practice and the spirit of choosing to be here and to work on yourself and to open and to connect so begin to connect by tuning into your breathing acknowledging where it's at right now and bringing yourself into rhythm into awareness of each inhale and each exhale and we're gonna just be here for a few rounds of breath letting the weight continue to go down and letting your spirit enliven and to further just to open up some space through our front body we're gonna do a little smile scan so I invite you to imagine that there is a smile on the top of your forehead notice if that changes any awareness in your face or in your head and begin to allow that smile to slowly make its way down your face over your eyes your nose and the smile comes over your face and maybe you even give a little smile either outwardly or inwardly and just noticing if it's changing any of the energy you might or might not and then allowing that smile to make its way down into your neck to your chest maybe even in front of your heart and sitting holding it there I was just an open-hearted smile can you need to connect with your breath and then from here continuing to send this smile to any other place in the body that feels like it could use a little extra care you can use a little lightness and little enlightening could be your arm beer your navel or your hips eventually maybe down to your legs or to your feet just a couple moments for you to bring this lightness bring this smile bring your breath to any parts of your body that might be calling and now that we've opened up the front body a little bit we're gonna send some energy into our back body so on your inhale I want you to imagine that there is energy moving from the top of your head so maybe there's the top of your spine down into the base of your tailbone and then as you breathe out you feel the energy move from your root up into the top of your head and just follow that for your rhythm of breath inhale you're sending energy from up to down and exhale you're sending energy in your back from down to up inhale head to root and then exhale root to the crown and let's stay here for a few rounds noticing if you can feel the energy moving up and down your back and you might or you might not and with this energy that you are creating both by softening the front and creating energy in your back body we're gonna send all of it into your heart maybe stop your breath or stop and bring your awareness into your heart space be both the center and the front and the back of your heart and I'd like you to feel this beautiful light start to circle and start to brighten at the center of your heart and if you feel like you can use some work and opening your heart if you've been feeling closed or disconnected recently I invite you to imagine that this light is green feeling a green light at its center if you feel connected if you've been feeling loving then I invite you to imagine it as a bright white light or if you don't know how you feel then choosing which one resonates or also forgoing the light altogether and just feeling the energy at your heart space so stay here for a few moments and either breathing and feeling this just a little light right now circulating from your center or maybe just feeling the energy in your heart and with this energy I'm gonna ask you to imagine yourself seated in front of you so you can either imagine yourself seated right in front of you where you are in your physical location maybe this other version of you pulls up a chair or cushion in front of you or I invite you to visualize yourself in an empty room sitting on a cushion or sitting on a chair just like you are and in front of you is another cushion and it is another version of you so just take a moment once you've gotten your visualization or your feeling notice what it's like to just sit and see this person in front of you so seeing yourself in your mind's eye sitting right in front of you just like you are what is it like to just breathe and be with this person not judging yourself whether or whatever comes up what you're gonna do now is you're gonna share some words with this person that they really need to hear and looking them in the eyes feeling both of your hearts and connect up and you're welcome to say this out loud or just imagining yourself saying in your head you are love you are love at your core I love you for who you are your light shines brighter than you can see you are so loved just sit here for a few noticing and that felt or if anything came up noticing if it was difficult or easy all is welcome and then both of you with me take a breath in and let that go and still sitting in front of yourself I'd like you to acknowledge this person that you're looking at for a time that they felt unloved in time that maybe they felt unworthy or maybe they made a mistake they hurt someone they hurt themselves maybe they doubt their own lovingness and maybe they're just doubting where they are right now and maybe they're struggling right now and as you're sitting in front of them you get to send that energy send that light in your heart towards them and see if you can almost offer them that sign of compassion and energy of compassion and understanding start to breathe that light in from your center seeing it get bigger and bigger engulfing your entire body and starting to engulf both of your bodies so both are you are sitting in a white light or a green light maybe there's no light maybe there's just this energy of love and understanding and compassion and seeing this person just like you would see anyone who's struggling holding them in your heart holding them in your heart and maybe now you even go ahead and grab their hands hold and saying again looking them in the eye looking them in the heart you are love you are love at your core I love you for who you are your light shines brighter than you can see you are so loved and be with this person here sending them any other words of understanding or love that feel right for you and then when it feels right start to bring this person in front of you closer start to move in for a hug feeling both of your lights start to connect at your heart give this person a hug even feel yourself giving someone in front of you a hug and then pull this person who is you into who you are right here and now so it's almost as if the body just morphs into your body and then you're just giving yourself a hug caring for yourself right here by transforming ourselves by loving ourselves we can transform others so you can move your hands if they're giving yourself a hug or keep them there if it feels right and since we have this energy to transform and to send out and to make an impact on our world I'd like you to bring to mind an area of the world that you'd like to spread your love to maybe it's a nonprofit that you work with it could be a country or a group of people or it could be the state of America or your country or it also could be a human one human that you know and can use this love and this the support extending the loving energy and the transformation within you out towards whoever this is and as you do this see your light from your center that is engulfing you and just start to get brighter until you fill your whole room at this layer this energy until it goes outside of this room outside of your home or wherever you're at into your town or your city do your state your Providence your country into your continent and now into the world holding in mind that group of people or that person that you're specifically sending this out to and then sharing these words again as a collective we are love we are love at our core I love us for who we are our light shines brighter than we can see we are so loved we are so loved sitting in that loving energy for a moment and slowly whenever feels right and beginning to come back into your body coming back into your room letting go of any visualization or light maybe coming out like you came in taking some movements and then gently opening your eyes and I hope you can come back to this feeling throughout your day throughout your week and realize that you have so much positive energy to give to those that you come across and that by doing the work that on yourself it is not selfish it is actually a way that you can serve others so I hope that you continue to do the work and I look forward to supporting you in the ways that I am able to sending you so much love and let's stay connected namaste

Reviews

Thank you for this wonderful guided meditation ❤️🙏🏻

Thank you, Lou 🙏💛

Another great and powerful meditation Lou. Thank you

Thanks so much for your inspiring words. "All you need is love".

Thank you Lou! I really needed that today 🙏 So good to be in love not fear.

So nice and inspiring. Thanks for t'he learnings 🙏

That was lovely. Thank you. Such a pleasant voice to meditate with.

Thank you Lou, very uplifting and inspirational as always. Sending you much love and blessings 💜x

Thank you, Lou🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻Looking back to where I have come from, it is radical self care and radical self love that has been at the core and has brought me where I am. Feeling immensely grateful🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
And...wouldn't it be more than great if Marianne were/IS president?!!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

This is such a nice practice. Often I have trouble with visualizing myself and giving myself love, but I was able to do it with this guidance. It felt great to be able to do so. Thank you!

Excellent practice I enjoyed it very much. I agree with you, namaste my friend 🙏

Perfect words, perfect timing, perfect intention. Thank you, Lou!

You are so right! A Big Hug for you too! Namaste