Many Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultures have deep connections to ancestors. They believe that ancestors who love them are present in their lives in ways that feel immediate and present.
Natural State Restoration builds on that capacity by allowing the idea that love is infinite. So much that if we’ve only experienced one instance of unconditional love (see my post on the Art of Unconditionally Loving to come) we have experience all the love that ever was and ever will be.
All the love that ever was and ever will be abides in our hearts. We only need to find it. The key to finding this state is through breathing naturally (see blog post on breath.) Bt breathing naturally we can abide in a state of calm love.
We make mistakes when we think of love as a finite commodity, like a jar of jam.
- we give away love to others and think we don’t have any left for ourselves
- we give our love to some and not to others who don’t deserve it
- we use love to shape other peoples’ behaviours so we may subtely, or not so subtely, show that we will love if you do well in school, lose weight, make more money…
- we think that if we love strangers we will let them walk all over us, or spend all our time listening to troubled people
These are just a few examples of mistakes we make by thinking of love as finite.
Infinity? Isn’t that for Einstein?
No. Many traditional cultures believe that we have different parts. One part is the Divine Soul which was constructed by all the loving experiences. By loving experiences I include transcendent experiences such as watching a pod of orcas off the nearby Roberts Creek beach. It can be the few moments when we were held by our great grandmother or a teacher who stays after school to help us figure something out. It can be, as one 11 year old said, a cat that is fed and exercised and comes over to give and get love.
Feel that transcendent moment now. In your heart.
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