How To Bring More Love Into Your Life

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Most people would agree to wanting to have more love in their life, and that this is something that will certainly lead to some great improvements in how life is lived and enjoyed. Of course, it does not always seem simple or straightforward to achieve this, and there are so many aspects to it which are beyond one’s control. But it’s also true that there are some particular steps we can each take to help bring a lot more love into our lives, and that is certainly something that is worth trying to achieve.

In this post, we’ll discuss some of the best methods for doing this. The following are all really good ideas that you can take on board if you want to have more love in your life, so they are all really important to be aware of. You’ll find that engaging with these can be really fortuitous for you.

Start With Loving Yourself

The first thing you should do - that we should all do, really - is to start by loving yourself all the more. This is obviously not always as easy to do as you might hope, but as long as you are working hard to focus on this, you should find that you can soon learn how you are actually going to make it work. Loving ourselves can be challenging for all sorts of reasons: because we have guilt and shame over something from the past, or because we inherently feel unlovable and unworthy. In any case, it’s important to try and understand these feelings deeply. The deeper you understand them, the more fully you will be able to finally let them go.

That’s not the only hurdle to self-love, however. You might also be in a situation where you are made to feel this way, and it’s not always simple to just remove yourself from those scenarios. If you happen to be in such a place right now, it’s all about taking small steps toward freedom, as impossible as that can seem.

The great thing is that something amazing is waiting on the other side: when you love yourself genuinely and truly, it has a way of encouraging you to have more joy too. It also means that you are more open to loving other people, and in that way your life can very quickly start to look a lot better indeed.

As you can probably see, then, if you can love yourself, that is very often the gateway to being able to love others, and to generally having more love in your life. There is a reason that this is the most important step you can take in this whole journey, and why it’s the part that most people tend to spend the most time on trying to perfect.

Awaken The Heart

It can also help to balance this out and fill it out with some particularly loving-based practices, the kind that are going to help you to have a lighter and freer heart. Awakening the heart is one of the most important things we can each do with our time on this planet, though that does not mean that it’s easy. Quite the contrary: it can be a real challenge, and you can find yourself struggling to actually face those emotions head-on in a way that is real.

You can start by considering some of the qualities of the heart that you would expect to find, and asking how you might be able to expand them out and make more of them. For instance, that might include a sense of peace or harmony, a feeling of light and love and laughter. These kinds of qualities are to be found in heart-based practices, and while they are quite useful they are certainly not to be forced. One of the gentle ironies of this kind of work is that you can't force anything to happen at all, so you need to be gentle and allow things to unfold as they will.

Once you’ve awoken the heart, you will know it, because you will be feeling everything so much deeper and more profoundly. That is a great place to be, though at first it might feel a little raw.

Give Love

You very much receive what you give when it comes to this kind of thing. That simply means that if you want to receive more love, you will almost certainly need to give more. This is not always easy: you won’t always feel that you are capable of it or that you are safe to do so, and you might find yourself holding back from it as a result of that. But it’s definitely something that you should try, because the results are amazing.

Sometimes it’s easier to start giving more love to animals, which is why a lot of people site their love onto a dog or other pet. This is a good way to start giving more love, and a dog is certainly going to make you feel more loved in no time. After a while, however, you will then want to think about trying to send out more love into the world and particularly to other human beings, close and far. If you can do that, it’s going to make a huge difference to the amount of love you feel in your daily life.

See Love As Impersonal

Finally, something that helps a lot of people is to start seeing love as less of a personal deal. In other words, not in terms of what you do and don’t deserve and who does and who doesn’t love you, but love as a force that is either present or not in a particular situation. This is an approach that a lot of people would benefit from, though it is not always that popular. But if you try it out yourself, you are going to find that it can really be amazing and that you are going to notice huge improvements from it.