Chapter 10: Learning Unconditional Love

Greetings and welcome. When we embark upon a spiritual path, at some point we come to unconditional love. This is because unconditional love is the most powerful energy in the Universe and we are made of it. We can learn to radiate this amazing light to all who we encounter, and to the world. Orin tells us that unconditional love is when we have our hearts open all the time. To do this we let go of expectations of others, letting them be exactly as they are. While this love is infinitely abundant, it can take some practice to be this love in our lives. This episode gives us a chance to practice this love, becoming a beacon of love for all. We begin with ourselves. 

Our book is Personal Power Through Awareness by Sanaya Roman. You don’t have to be reading the book to gain benefit from the episodes, but you reading Orin is like a cup of tea with a dear, wise friend. Here’s a link to buy the book: 

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/personal-power-through-awareness-revised-edition-sanaya-roman/1129394787?ean=9781608686070

'Sea of Light' music by Sanaya Roman (orindaben.com)
Podcast production by iRonick Media (ironickmedia.com)

Disclaimer:
Breath exercises are not intended to diagnose or treat illness. Anyone undertaking to practice breath awareness and exercises should be mindful of their health and consult their health care practitioner if they have any questions about their fitness for this practice. 

Transcript

Miriam: 0:04

Welcome to Marion's meditations. We've had a few weeks of rest from the podcast. So I thank you all for tuning in again, it was just summertime, I did a little traveling. And I'm really glad to be back home again, and learning personal power through awareness with all of you, which is the guidebook for sensitive people by Cynthia Roman that we have been working our way through. And we are currently on chapter 10. And chapter Tim and title of this chapter is learning unconditional love. And I have to say that I got to this particular moment and thought to myself, Wow, here we are, unconditional love. It's no matter what spiritual path you are on, eventually you show up at unconditional love. And the guides want to tell you about it. And you're a little heart with the very good protection around it goes. We're not sure about this. Because what Oren tells us, it's unconditional love means keeping your heart open all the time. All the time I that I read, then I stopped for a moment. Maybe Does he really mean all the time to do so you may need to let go of expectations. You have other people wanting them to be anything other than what they are letting go of any need for people to give you things act in certain ways, or respond with love. Many of you wait for other people to be warm and loving before you are. And I know that applies to me for sure. But I do work on this. And this idea of love is being the food of the universe. And the most powerful force in the universe really rings true with me. And it's something that I have really strived to make a part of my repertoire. Because while it's a force, not just a sentimental idea of like romantic love, or even familial love, it's an actual force of energy, it takes a little practice and skill to learn how to keep your heart open, and to move into situations that are challenging, and respond with love. And so that's the work of this particular chapter. And the practice that we're going to do. We're going to cultivate unconditional love, and become a beacon of that love and light in the world. Now, just as soon as I really dived back into this chapter to talk about it with all of you here today, I had a really great example of the world pushing back against me on something that I thought I deserved, and was not getting people were being unpleasant. And I thought, Oh, great. I must be really in the Super mastery, spiritual work class, because this is really hard. I have to be loving to these people are not giving me what I want. And I still didn't get what I want. But I'm practicing sending them light and love anyway. Because they're just doing the best they can just like I'm doing the best I can. The thing that they're withholding from me, it's not a make or break sort of thing I can get over myself and figure it out. But it was funny to me to have this immediate example of getting something I wanted and having to respond with love because that's what I'm doing with my book. I'm being very sincere and working through this material. So there's so much here and this one particular chapter, I encourage you to work through it slowly and read all that Oren has to share with us here. You learn to love by putting yourself in situations that challenge you to be loving. That's what happened to me this week. Whatever you give others is also a gift to yourself and that certainly applies to love. And finally, Oren says, You attract situations into your life to learn from them. One way to change every situation for the better is by responding with love. As you do so the nature and character of every situation will change. By practicing you can learn to stay in the state of love for long or longer periods of time. Practice everywhere you go. Send love to the Earth's and love to everyone you meet. See if you can notice something beautiful about them. Love brings beauty to everything and everyone and most of all love brings beauty to you. So, those are some wise words from our book. Now let's breathe. Just close your eyes and drop into your center. Just allow yourself to recognize where your breath is today, how you're feeling in your body and the very first instruction that Oren gives us in this practice of learning should be loving is to love your own body. And to draw the breath in and bring in love on the breath. And let it circulate to all of your body. So you might start with your eyes in your jaw, relaxing all of the muscles in your face. And just draw a loving energy straight into your face. feeling beautiful, and useful, vital,

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alive.

Miriam: 6:07

And continuing to follow your breath, allow your shoulders to drop away from your ears, your arms and your hands to relax and be soft. Notice how your breathing space is expanding, and deflating as the breath flows in and flows out really easy. Imagine that you are drawing in the most beautiful breath, the most easy and peaceful breaths ever. That doesn't necessarily mean the biggest breath. Although it could. That just means to let yourself breathe in a way that draws beauty into your body along with the breaths. And as you're doing this allow love to circulate to all of the cells of your body. To all of your internal organs that keep you alive. Each one has its own particular signature of light. And as you breathe this beautiful light in and allow this love to circulate to each of the organs of your body, renew them and refresh them. Follow the cells of our bodies have light. The DNA of our bodies actually emits a lumen of light that can be measured. And as you do this practice, you're enhancing the light in your body. Love Your Body is the vehicle that carries your consciousness throughout your life an inherent appreciation for this magnificent pattern that is your body. Now let's do a little pranayama breath practice. I want you to think specifically this time, about the heart my uniting breath because this is going to be important as we move through our unconditional love. Practice. The first let's bring the first two fingers of the right hand up to touch the third eye and we'll just draw the breath directly into the third eye and out the third eye and mouth imagine this breath is cleansing and clearing as we draw our spirals upon the forehead. Counting to 36 We can

Unknown: 9:04

1-234-567-8910 1112 1314 1516 1718 1920 2122 2320 420-526-2720 820-930-3130 230-334-3536 Pause, breathe in his third eye

Miriam: 9:54

and exhale out your third eye open a year intuition and clearing your mind. Right hand remains stationary, left hand comes up and place it upon your heart. And now we will do the heart mind uniting breaths. And before we begin at this moment, I want you to think about your heart as a beautiful blossom that is opening that petals of light are opening in your heart. And the same thing is happening in your mind, the petals of light, the mind has been likened to a 10,000 pedaled blossom or Lotus. So you have these blossoming energy signatures that the heart and the mind and now we will use our breath to unite these two into a compassionate, loving wise energy. Breathe in your third eye and exhale that energy down into your heart. Breathing again your third eye and exhale down into your heart breathe in your third eye. Collecting that energy there and dropping it down into your heart, heart and mind begin to blend. Now on your next inhalation drawn the press in the heart. Allow the breath to lift illuminating the mind and exhaling back down into the sweetness of the heart. Freeze in at your heart. The breath lifts, rising illuminating the mind and exhaling that blended energy into the heart. Once more breathe in at the heart. Lifting blending and exhaling releasing to the heart. Heart and Mind are wedded in a spiritual union. This beautiful practice brings you to oneness. So that you are your awakened heart and your thoughts are informed by the energy of the heart. So let's do a few rounds of alternate nostril breathing. Inhale through both sides of your nose and exhale through both sides of your nose. Now close off with your son your right nostril breathing in the left side only close off with your fingers lift up your thumb breathe out breathe in same side clothes off with your thumb lift up your fingers breathe out breathe in same clothes off out other insane clothes off out other insane out other insane let your hand drop to lap and breathe out both sides of your nose What a beautiful balanced place. The breath brings us to harmony is an inherent feature of this time. Breathing your hands just be resting in your lap and let us return to the energy of the heart imagine again that beautiful blossom with many petals of light, brilliant light. It can be pure white light, or the heart chakra light which is either a beautiful green, or rose colored. Either one of these shades can help you to imagine the radiance of your heart. With each breath, your heart opens more and more as you are opening to unconditional love imagine a time

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when you were very loving, perhaps as a child,

Miriam: 16:28

or with someone that you dearly love. And allow yourself to feel what it feels like to be so loving. To be with someone that opens your heart allow your heart to blossom. Let there be a light coming down from above, from your soul energy that is radiating into your heart this wonderful sensation of being love being with someone who is easy to love now think of someone who is a little more challenging to love someone in your life who's not quite as easy to love. But while we're thinking of this person, remember yourself as the great radiant loving being that you were thinking of yourself as just a moment ago. And allow yourself to use that loving you as your template of who you truly are. Because that is the truth of you. And by aligning with that love we shed artificial protections or ideas that are less than loving about ourselves. And so now we are with this individual who was somewhat less easy to love than we are being our fairy most loving self now imagine that beam of light that is coming down from above from your soul is also illuminating our mind. And that sounds in parallel lotus of the mind is opening as well and is receiving this loving energy clarifying your thoughts about yourself and washing away any old outmoded ideas that you might have about yourself and so this line of love illuminates the mind in the heart because your beliefs are very important to being able to stay in unconditional love So we use this light of love to clarify and cleanse and make stronger our radiance as a beam or a beacon of love in the world, even for those that are somewhat more challenging to love, so a thought that we can hold around these individuals or even groups is that they are doing the best they know wow. They are crying out for love. Any negative action or negative energy that you perceive in the world is simply an place where there's not enough love. Where people are crying out for love. Love is the food of the universe the most powerful energy in all of creation. And it is infinitely abundant. And as you become this conduit for the love to flow through you and out into the world, you are amplifying your abilities and more and more love will come to you. As you add love to the world love increases and it increases for you. And fewer and fewer negative situations will be drawn to you. Because the energy that you are radiant with radiating is this pure, unconditional love. Think of it as a powerful flow an infinitely powerful energy and it is truly what we are all made of. And you can send this love out. As you walk upon the earth, you can love the Earth. If you turn your face toward the sun can love the sun you can listen love to all the people you encounter in your day. It is not an attached energy. For there are no attachments or prerequisites where you're simply recognizing and meeting others where they are. And we have this love for ourselves being gentle and compassionate with the self. We are learning they're expanding we're being with the joy and the saying of Yes. Saying yes to love saying yes to life. Thank you yes to being open. As you become more and more radiant and allow this love to flow through you begin to recognize there is nothing to be protected against. This can be challenging for us humans. So many of the thoughts that we have are fear based. We are afraid we have been taught to be afraid to protect. But when we meet fear with love, it burns right through and the fear dissolves. It is necessary to recognize these fears and named them for what they are and allowing the light of love to circulate among it. So there is a bit of a process here and this is why we breathe this light of love into our thoughts as well. So we can become aware of our thoughts when they are fearful or our reactions to the world. When we are fearful Just breathing this light into the mind it creates a spaciousness. Things may rise to the surface that could use this breath of love. So as you're doing this practice notice if you are feeling more and more spacious with them as though there is an opening where there used to be a closed energy or space between the molecules of your mind or spaciousness within your heart and being now imagine this beautiful beam of light flowing down to you from your soul above you. Imagine the light growing more and more brilliant. A wider and wider beam of love. And know that this source of love is truly infinite. Never ending and as this love flows to you, from your source your soul and beyond, into your personality level being and then it radiates from you out and out and out into your world into your home into all the items around you, without opening your eyes just to imagine the room around you. And see it filled with this radiant love all of these things that you have selected to be in your home fill them with this light of love so as we mentioned earlier, this love is unconditional love is infinite and abundant. And learning to be open to this flow and carry a higher and higher quality of love. More and more love is a skill and there will be times when you are very good at it. And other times when it is a little more challenging. You will begin to stay more and more in this higher octave of light and love. This becomes your new bandwidths of love. You tune yourself to this higher octave of experience by aligning yourself with this unconditional love. It is so beautiful. The colors are rich, the light is illuminated from within. Patterns form in this beauty connecting us in the grid work of light. Things become more and more easy manifestations arise many times from unexpected quarters when we take our attention off that which is perceived as lack and move it to the most abundant force in the universe, we engage the true substance of this flow and we tune ourselves into this higher octave of being and now this is where we live. And we look around and see all the others who are with us who have arrived in this octave of love and light so breathing into your heart and breathing Out of your heart as though your heart is a globe. Not just uni directional, but omni directional, and the loves it draws in and breathe out breathes you all directions. Love radiates from you everywhere becomes easier and easier to love and love and love, even the cranky ones in your existence dissolve any discord with this radiant light of love and now coming back to your breathing body, recognizing the conduit of love that you are and all of the molecules of your being that have been excited by this beautiful flow of love that you are cultivating a shimmer, your shine so as you set your feet upon the paths of your day, look out and see your path is a shining, lighted, illuminated path that you will walk for the rest of this day and into the tomorrow's and tomorrow's. I bring my hands together at my heart and a deep Thanksgiving and gratitude for all of you who are working on this path of spiritual love and light together who can listen to these broadcasts and you become a broadcast of love yourself. I recognize you and thank you deeply for this work that you are upon and for all of the gifts that you bring to all of us here in this wonderful world that we share. I did you peace Namaste. Mahalo for listening, follow rate and review Miriam's meditations on Apple podcast, Spotify, Google podcast, or wherever you're getting your podcast. We share a new meditation each week. The breath work presented here is cumulative. So if you're new to breath work, please start at the beginning in season one, and you'll learn the fundamentals. You can find more information about my work on my blog at Miriam's. meditations.com that's m i r i a m s meditations.com I welcome your comments. Write to me at contact at Miriam's. meditations.com Aloha, and have a beautiful day.