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When I first heard some speaker say that love was the remedy for everything that's wrong with the world at the moment, Quite frankly, I was unimpressed. It sounded so simplistic, but the fact is, at the time, I didn't appreciate what he was talking about. It's that little word love that I want to spend time talking about today. Now at this point, I can naturally only speak in respect of the English language, but I suggest that declaring love to be overused as a word is even an understatement.
That one little word is used all the time to describe so many feelings or states.
It's just no surprise that so many have decided love is nothing but an abstract concept, or possibly they see love in terms of only one of it many possible uses, and they even feel a sense of failure or inadequacy if that particular form of love that they're thinking about has eluded them completely and yeah, basic I'm talking about romantic love here, but it does, also very much apply to those who haven't had the experience of deep and meaningful family love.
I've known for decades that CS Lewis He is the writer of the Narnier books, the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe, and so forth. He wrote a vast amount of nonfiction Anne he was a very, Christian, spiritual writer. So one of his books was called The For Loves Anne I've only recently read it as in the last few years. He bases his distinctions on The 4 loves, which are defined somewhere in the Bible, affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of god.
My own view is that the 1st category, affection, contains a whole raft of subcategories including the love, for example, that mothers have for babies, and indeed, all forms of familial love But I think the parent child bond can be incredibly strong. And also in this grouping, lie The deep feelings, the really, really deep feelings that some of us have for our pets.
But even that, it's a different kind of affection, the sort that we have for an animal, as compared with what we have for a human, because a human will answer back. They will challenge us. We very rarely get challenges from pets, especially dogs. In addition, there are the loves that we profess to have for foods, for example. Do you love chocolate cake Corbin really hot curry or a decent glass of Anne?
There's the love of sounds, specifically music, for example, do you love music from the sixties Anne the seventies, or do you love classical music, or, heavy metal or noise of that sort? Do you love nature? A walk in nature? A walk on the beach, for example, or through a forest? Do you love places? Do you love travel? Experiences? Do you spend hours Anne 1000 of pounds on your hobbies because you love them.
Do you love sport Anne other similar interests So I could suggest in connection with that list that we're using the word love in a lazy sense. Rather like the word nice, I was told at school we should never describe anything as nice because it can describe anything from a jam tart to a battleship. But, well, language is a living thing Anne love seems to be the word that we choose. Friendship. This is the next type of love.
It's seen, or at least it was once seen, is enormously important, but It's been devalued, I would say, by Facebook because a friend is just somebody who's been added to your list in so many cases. People used to compete with each other to have as many friends as possible as fast as possible, and you realize there are names in your contact list that you haven't a clue. You don't know where they live. You're not sure whether you've even met them.
In many cases, you haven't, Corbin many cases, they've got no business being on your list anyway. It's been said that people collect friends on social media the way we used to collect books, records, or CDs, or DVDs, and we don't pay them any attention. Off of social media, many of us refer to people that we know only vaguely as friends, even when For example, we'll only bump into them maybe once a year at business meetings.
Real friends are few and far between, and there to be valued, nurtured, and yes, loved. Romantic love, I wonder if that's what CS Lewis meant when he said erotic love. I think it's probably a subcategory of it. But it's often conflated with passion, and that's where eroticism really, kicks in. Anne when the emotion dulls over time, then it can be thought that the love has gone, but sometimes this is where friendship steps into the breach or a form of deep affection replaces the initial Ada.
Corbin to Lewis, the Bible says that the bond between a man and a woman represents god's love for the world. I wonder what all those transgender types and the pride persons would say to that, No, I don't wonder. I know darn well what they'd say. And Lewis also defines this kind of love as charity or agapay. Now, that's interesting. I thought agapay was a meal that you shared.
Anne Lewis says that the other three forms of love can be considered a training ground for this category, and if you've forgotten the other three forms, they are affection, friendship, and the love of god. This is what Lewis describes as unconditional love and also as love for our fellow Anne, plus a very important love, and that is love for ourselves.
Most of us will be familiar with that parable, the good Samaritan, as told in Matthew, in one of the gospels, and Also, perhaps with the instruction that we should love our neighbor as ourselves. Yes. What's often overlooked in that little statement is the instruction that we should love ourselves. So many of us feel that this is somehow wrong because when we were growing up, we were warned against being selfish.
Anne how many women spend their lives doing everything for everybody else and neglecting themselves entirely? This is very often linked with particular cultures. It's not so prevalent now in Western culture. But it certainly used to be.
All a woman was supposed to do was, prepare herself for marriage, find a good husband, and then devote her life to looking after him, like having dinner on the table as soon as he arrived home Anne raising many children usually, well, before birth control, it could be a dozen or more, but you you get what I'm saying. These women obviously have no time for themselves. It's not so much the case now.
But hangovers from this idea that it's our job to make sure everyone else is happy, it makes us pleases, and it's not good for us. We must start to take more time to look after ourselves because if your car isn't functioning on all cylinders, it's not going to do a good job of taking you to wherever you want to go. We spend more time maintaining our vehicles Anne more money, I mean, than we do maintaining ourselves.
We must love ourselves, and we We need to take steps to understand and learn about self love and recognize that we're powerful beings. We are made in god's image, and we are enough. We're attractive enough We are slender enough. We're intelligent enough. We are creative enough. We are enough. We really must stop putting ourselves down. It all comes from early programming, and it's very, very hard to shake off early programming.
And when I say early programming, of course, I mean up to the age of seven at the most, but usually up to the age of four to five, it all been put in place. This is probably where the negative self talk comes from because we tend to echo what we hear from our parents or our teachers or, religious people about how Oh, we can't be trusted. We can't do anything right. We're never gonna amount to anything Anne so on and so forth. We must get out of the habit.
Because whatever our those little thoughts that are going on in our brains, they can have nearly as much effect on our subconscious as the words that we actually hear from outside. Other people or, outside media. The thing about the subconscious is that it holds on to memories, even memories that we think we've long since forgotten, and sometimes those memories are so traumatic that we've buried them for a really good reason. Anne yet they're having an effect on us through our subconscious.
This is why there are people who find it very therapeutic to talk to a, a skilled person to unlock those memories. Anne once they've been let out and addressed, it is amazing the effect that it can have on people, I've I've seen this truly. I've seen it with many people. And if we are struggling to find love, it could be that we don't love ourselves. So Ask yourself, do you love yourself? Do you, have you ever tried Anne in front of the mirror and saying, I love you. It's amazing.
Stare into your eyes. Give it a try. But it's a question of giving and receiving a lot of people have issues with receiving. I don't know why. You may have heard the expression that it's easier to give to receive than to receive or better to give than to receive. Perhaps it's that we're told it's better to give. It sets up some kind of feeling of guilt that we're not entitled to receive. It's very strange. The tricks that our subconscious play on us but back to love.
Those holding a feeling of unworthiness. My goodness. That's such a big one. I don't deserve it. They often find that they can't receive love. So just recognizing that this could be an issue in your life will be a great step forward towards building a better and more fulfilled life. And how does all this connect with love being the answer to the state that the world is in? Well, it's potentially only one of many Anne.
But it's the one that you meditation Anne so forth will raise your vibration Anne raising your vibration and the vibration of the group that you're in, it's like the butterfly effect. It's very hard to describe. I can't do it, scientifically, except to refer to the fact that we are all connected. All 8,000,000,000 of us, we're all connected.
So if the movement to grow love, spread love, develop love, is enthusiastically embraced by as many people as possible, who knows what effect it's going to have? So friends, If you enjoyed this content and would rather not wait until next week for more of the same, you are warmly invited to check out my new membership program. It's called Awaken Dot Plus, and the Enquirer level is open now. If you join as a founder member, the price for you will never rise.
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