A teacher of mine says that he doubts any judgment can be absolute or objective. He believes that any and all of our strongly held beliefs are a mirror of our story rather than statements of TRUTH. “It is not true to say that a truth at one level is valid at another level. Failing to recognize that has led to so much opinionated bigotry and violence.”
This reminded me of another lesson I had many years ago when I was first learning to touch someone from the craniosacral perspective of stillness. I remember thinking that I had to give or send someone on my table, love. My teacher encouraged me to be love rather than give love.
This is where my belief is today. If I can put my awareness into however I perceive love – be it a thought, a feeling of a previous experience of love or just focusing on my heart that energy permeates regardless of whether I “give” or “send” it.
For me, this is a helpful practice because at my level of understanding I feel in that moment I am vibrating with love. I have made no judgments about whom or what needs love. I am just relishing the energy of love and that does whatever it needs, on any level. Healing happens in the present moment; and in that moment with the vibration of love permeating the immediate environment miracles can and do happen.
Of course, physics tells us that these energetic vibrations can affect the entire universe and that’s a bigger lesson about my role in life.
Interesting thought.
ReplyDeleteMy question is what is the difference between presence and love?
From my perspective I see presence and love as two separate states. I can be present to my own anger by noticing what happens within my body. Focusing on my breathing will reduce the agitated state rather than the focus being the event that produced it in the first place. That is a form of presence (to my anger).
ReplyDeleteI can sit with a client in a neutral presence as I am aware of the rhythms, the flow, perhaps some twitching. I may notice a sense of wonderment at the process unfolding. Love might arise spontaneously. Perhaps it arises from that sense of wonderment when I notice a welling of joy, elation, gratitude.
Each of us experiences our feelings such as love, anger or sadness from a different perspective. I cannot have your experience so my descriptive language will be different than yours. This is all related to our environment during our growing years which includes our birth order, our parents, our siblings, the time in history, etc. Even our siblings have a different understanding. The neurons fire from these memories we have stored in our cells.
My feeling is that presence is the awareness of all that is arising in the present moment and that can include love.