A Love Story For All

Hello,

Great News, Everyone! Love is available to ALL of us...Now! It is something we have more control of than we think because it begins with us. Yes, the effort to love must start with us. Leo Buscaglia said it best, "To love others you must first love yourself." There is no getting around this truth when it comes to the various forms of healthy love relationships. Loving yourself not only prepares you to love others, but in fact, is what makes it possible. Remember to remember, your relationship with yourself reflects your relationship with others. To love oneself means treating yourself well. It is knowing your worth and what you deserve. Self-love is about positive thoughts and feelings that you have about who you are. In daily practice it translates as an understanding that love is something that is within, around us, and available to us all if we stay open to it. Herein, lies the meaning behind a love story for all: Regardless of your history, a life filled with love is within your reach. Love yourself first so that you can love more. This will bring you closer to a love story that is meant to be experienced by all.

What's your story on love? Are you seeking, waiting, undecided (noncommittal), or have you given up altogether? I can tell you that for many, their story of love is a work in progress that often becomes better as they get better. The way to love is through action. Make it a part of your life plan to surround yourself with positive, loving people who bring out the best in you. And secondly, give your love freely to those who are already in your life who love you and more importantly show you their love.

Love can bring out the best in us, but it can also bring about a sense of defeat, pain, and frustration when what we seek seems unattainable. All too often, what keeps us apart from love has more to do with a faulty belief system that we have about ourselves. It is this lack of understanding and acceptance of who we are and what we deserve that serves to keep love at bay. You must know that rejecting ourselves is the same as rejecting love from our lives. When we think and feel badly about ourselves, we inadvertently close off to love and instead attract people that will confirm to us what we think of ourselves. Know that you can change this by understanding that living with love is a matter of choice, effort, and willingness to simply say yes to it and open yourself up to it. We can turn things around at any point in our lives. To attract love, make sure your thoughts, words, and actions match your desires for it. Be mindful of your surroundings and be sure to seek out " people, places, and things " where the presence of love is evident.

What we believe to be true becomes what we see and becomes our life experiences. Believe in the abundance of love and you will invite more of it into your life. To love more brings about more love. It's that simple. Cherish the love you already have and you will always have plenty more of it.

Stop postponing love and start living in the presence of it. To be able to love and receive love is what living our best life is all about. I leave you with my list of what I believe we need for love to happen in our lives. May you never, ever give up on love.

Love Happens When We -
Make space for it in our hearts -
Make time for it -
Open ourselves to it -
Believe in it -
Are ready -
Desire and want it more than we fear it -
Stop paying attention to the negative thoughts we have about who we are -
Stop worrying about the outcome and the what ifs -
Are fully alive -
Are living our best life now -
Embrace the love that already is -
Stop holding out on love -
Stop living a life of contradictions -
Are in the presence of it -
Are able and willing to give our love away -
Have a vision of it -
Love more -
Believe we deserve it -
Accept that love brings us happiness and love brings us grief. And it's all good -
Think it, speak it, feel it, and live it -

I wish you love.