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"Your task is not to seek
love,
but merely to seek and find
all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it."
-- Rumi
Many
Faces of Love
by Leslie Karen Sann, MA, LCPC
Welcome back from the holidays. How were they for
you? Did you have a quiet time alone, just you and the peace of the
season? Or were you running around visiting family and friends and sharing
good cheer with all? Or perhaps your time was spent in a way that served
you uniquely and differently than the ads and the culture would say it
would look like.
I have clients who come in during the holidays
feeling out of sorts because the real life experience of the season does
not meet their expectations or the television propaganda. Either they
aren't where they thought they'd be by "this point" in their
lives, or there are people missing from their lives that are significant,
or they have no family to take pictures of to send out on Christmas cards.
Love can look empty, love can look full. Love can
look like a table full of relatives and kids laughing as they tear open
gifts, or love can look like sharing the holiday with just you savoring
the peace of the day.
We often judge the package love comes in. We think
it should look a certain way. Yet love shows up the way it shows up.
My client who was sad he doesn't have a 'family'
photo to send out on his holiday card told me this year his holiday was
going to be special. His mother, father and step-mother (folks have been
divorced for a long, long time) were going to sit together at his table
for christmas dinner. I suggested he take a picture and send out a card
saying, "This is what Love looks like in my home."
Love is always present no matter what is going on.
The mind comparing what is to what it thinks should be is what derails us.
Instead of looking for love in all the wrong places how about looking for
love where it is. Right here right now. Know this and be willing to
receive the experience of Love loving you right now.
Celebrating Love,
Leslie
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A Reader Shares a Win:
I have found that taking the first action (step)
facilitates ease and gets me in motion. I am finding energy available for
me to use to create flow through action.
I am spending far less time worrying about what is
not done, because I'm in action - I am participating not avoiding! It's
very cool. ~ M.L. ~
For More on Living by Design:
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are you with the process of change?
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support you in moving forward. leslie@living-bydesign.com. Building a
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