Love comes in all forms, and it's the yummiest, most touching feeling of all.
Love is a lot of things. It's anything that opens our hearts to receive and express that delicious feeling.
We hold and express love differently. Sometimes we are the givers, sometimes the receivers. Ideally, it's a balanced thing, regardless of how it looks on the outside.
When we give out of pure joy that it brings to us, when it's giving from the heart, without taking advantage, manipulating, coaxing into ~ love that flows out of us is in its highest form.
Do you ever feel like you just want to give more love? For, as Shakespeare described mercy, so it can be applied to love:
"The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes".
And, sometimes we need to find a way to achieve balance between giving and receiving.
In our relationship, I had to learn to receive without feeling guilty; to receive without worrying about giving right away.Â
Early on, Ken expressed that when I don't receive, it's like stopping the flow of love and goodness from him to me, and that that affected him. So, baby steps - I softened into my feminine and opened to sometimes just receive. And what a beautiful experience, when we can fully give and fully receive, as love wants to move through us. A true leaning into love.
When we realize that it's safe to open, to be held, to allow loving energy in - our hearts want to open even more.
How do you hold love?
Do you lean into it, let it flow, nourish it and allow it to blossom, or do you "cut the blossoms" in fear of its scent being too strong, its beauty too intense?
Or, do you run and hide, afraid of the intimacy and vulnerability?
Love is the yummiest, most touching feeling of all ~ if we let it be so. And to do so, we need to heal our relationship to love within ourselves 💜
In our relationship and in our couples retreats, we hold love with reverence, softness and strength, understanding that love needs to be nourished, nurtured, honored, and savored.
If you'd like to learn more about HEARTS ALIGNED Couples retreats in Sedona, visit us at: lovingpartnership.com
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