The Many Faces of Love

When people don’t love us how we think it should look we assume they aren’t loving us and in turn we block it.

We have our own expectations on what it should be + we generalize that to every individual.

Key word being “individual.”

We are all unique.

We all love uniquely.

Read that again.

Love feels, looks, acts out differently for us all. Remember that no one person is the same as another. Love is a universal language but how we show that love, that differs. Just because you assume someone is not loving you “right” or at all it doesn’t mean that is the reality of it for them.

Generations of cultural, societal,religious, family conditioning has happened to us all. Traumas, lineage traumas, celebrations, etc.  But none of it the same. We have interpreted, experienced, processed the vibration + idea of love differently. The way I processed the conditioning + the knowledge of love is not the same as you. In turn the way I show love, its not going to be the same as you.

We have to understand this in order to accept and receive others + their offering of love.

When we place these expectations, we attach to an outcome. And in the attachment we can block and miss receiving because we are so laser focused on what we believe we should be receiving and how that should be.

(Now this doesn’t discredit or mean you should accept any form of abuse or mistreatment. This is not in that realm)

This also shows up amplified in the way we receive love from the collective, the world, larger systems.

We have this pain and disappointment from discouraging and blocking love or not receiving it at all as we grow and then we see the world through this lens.

We see manipulation, strings attached, wrong doing, etc. and we judge, we block and we have negative emotions towards the world.

We don’t give it a chance.

And we may not give ourselves a chance either.

Be open. Let go of expectations + see love for love.

See each person, each collective as they may be.

Clear yourself to receive.

And above all, the love you wish to receive, be it for yourself first and foremost before you can ask it of another.

Want it, be it, live in love.